Hobbyist quadcopter drones have ~15 minutes flying time. Even using multiple drones, I’d think they need more than that to keep the airport blockaded. Landing them for a battery change would be risky with everyone watching.
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Is there any reason to think the operator is even in England? Couldn’t they be anywhere? Like election systems hacking, like bomb threats to scores of businesses, like DNC/RNC penetration, this would fit right in as a probe/test/proof-of-concept/on-going low-intensity-conflict remote-controlled attack against society, low cost, high mayhem.
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The Terrorism legislation is sufficiently flexible that economic disruption - such a closing an international import - can also be used if the police are imaginative.
Perhaps a few sentences running into multiple decades for this sort of fuckery will help.
Either that or just dropping the fucker(s) in the middle of the departure hall of Gatwick and letting the passengers sort it out.
Battery life for a drone is sufficiently limited that this sort of disruption either requires multiple drones or someone switching the power packs. If the latter then someone is nearby.
“The effects of the Gatwick drone disruption are even being felt in California.”
Damn.
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