http://www.cnet.com/news/drone-carrying-three-kilos-of-meth-crashes-near-us-mexico-border/
http://www.cnet.com/news/drone-carrying-three-kilos-of-meth-crashes-near-us-mexico-border/
I wonder if the drone crashed because it thought it was being attacked by spiders.
Also: Anyone who uses a rotorcraft drone instead of a fixed-wing drone for hauling cargo deserves what happens next.
I want one of these http://www.cnet.com/news/rapere-the-drone-to-hunt-and-disable-other-drones/
Aerial robot fights!
Keith Tanner wrote: Aerial robot fights!
It's all fun and games until a robot drone crashes into the side of your head.
We could throw shotguns into the mix like skeet shooting.
Or machine guns
This is going to make R/C flying tougher. 
Keith Tanner wrote: We could throw shotguns into the mix like skeet shooting.
Didn't they already propose that?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DqhsftKszGE
Appleseed wrote: This is going to make R/C flying tougher.
They are going to restrict the FPV guys for sure as they can fly beyond line of sight. Not to worried about the local field being shut down in the meantime.
As for fixed wing vs quad, there are off the shelf solutions for GPS based navigation for quads that are plug and play. Way, way harder to do with a fixed wing if you include the takeoff/landing in a automated fashion without FPV which is traceable with some effort.
Heard of a similar discussion on another board. The consensus: it had to fly low to avoid radar, had to be quiet which ruled out quadcopters and anything jet propelled, had to be autonomous once out of line of sight, had to fly fast enough to make it hard to shoot down with a shotgun or etc. The consensus was twin heavily muffled low RPM engines for minimal noise and longer range than electrics combined with a fixed wing design that would give a good glide ratio, i.e. very little drop as a percentage of distance flown. It would be flown via radio control till out of sight, it would be programmed to shut the engines down out of earshot of the border and glide across, once clear by, say, 1000 meters the engines would restart and take it to its destination.
Or so I've heard. (looks furtively for black helicopters)
In reply to Curmudgeon:
You know, you can FOIA your own NSA and FBI files(if they exist), right?
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