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What’s New: Huge drone show in Quanzhou, Fujian Province, China by a famous artist was destroyed by “jamming” with hundreds of drones crashing on land and in the water.
Why It’s Important: The incident shows:
- Authorities can and do consider unknown drones a threat.
- Many types of drones can be easily disabled.
- Drones can be a hazard as they fall from the sky.
- Use of drones is still a relatively new phenomena. Operation and coordination remains a challenge for many.
What Else to Know:
- A camera drone entered the area to film the display, but authorities were not notified, considered it a rouge, and “jammed” it. This impacted the display drones also.
- The presumption in several news reports was that it was GPS jamming, which is the most common.
- Each drone only cost around $30 (US) but there were so many the total loss was around $1.4M.
- See video here.
Thanks to Maksinm Barodzka at GPSPatron for bringing this to our attention.
Spectacular! Massive drone fireworks show in Quanzhou, China, crashes and scares people
2024/12/09 10:21
Zeng Defeng/Editor
[Instant News/Comprehensive Report] Cai Guoqiang, a Chinese artist living in the United States, held a drone fireworks show “Red Sail” in his hometown of Quanzhou, Fujian Province yesterday (8th). Unexpectedly, a large number of drones fell during the process, and people at the scene saw it He exclaimed, “Run quickly.” Fortunately, it mainly fell into the water, and no casualties were reported.
From the video circulated on China’s Weibo and social platform Fireworks show spectators were stunned.
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