State-owned company Sentech, which distributes broadcast signals for radio and television, is in the market for sophisticated unmanned aerial vehicles (drones) to patrol South Africa's borders.

Sentech hopes to create fleet of drones that can take off by themselves and alert human operators to anomalies that could mean an attempted illegal crossing or other incursion.

It also wants the drones to be able to issue warnings automatically, along the lines of "move away from the boundary, you are entering a restricted area".

Meanwhile, back in a control room, operators would have access to live, high-definition video of what is going on, possibly augmented with data from sensors using everything from lasers to radar to create a detailed view of any event.

Ideally, Sentech says, its drones will have a range of capabilities making them useful for applications that include "security & defence", but none of its detailed specifications speak to a weapons platform.

South Africa has very porous borders with several of its neighbouring countries including Zimbabwe and Mozambique, and sees thousands of people crossing illegally each week.

https://www.businessinsider.co.za/business/sentech-wants-to-buy-autonomous-uavs-for-border-patrols-2020-8

Good for them

Nice one

Vyzz:
Good for them

No further accusations? The X word maybe?

TMKsouth:

No further accusations? The X word maybe?

Nope


Everybody should remain in their country

Vyzz:


Nope

Everybody should remain in their country

True. Who else will fight the bad system back home when we've all fled abroad?!

lol

That's actually not funny. I don't think the drones are just for yelling. But nothing will stop people desperate to escape a bad life.

And criminals know that, so they use these people for drug trafficking and other crime. Part of that is ensuring they cross the border.

Is that a fence? Lmao

Kekereekun123:
why shouting. just shoot them on sight they will stop coming

Cousin9999:
lol

That's actually not funny. I don't think the drones are just for yelling. But nothing will stop people desperate to escape a bad life.

And criminals know that, so they use these people for drug trafficking and other crime. Part of that is ensuring they cross the border.

@bold - True.

Memberclub:
Is that a fence? Lmao

Good fences make for good neighbours. But clearly a meaner one is needed.

TMKsouth:
State-owned company Sentech, which distributes broadcast signals for radio and television, is in the market for sophisticated unmanned aerial vehicles (drones) to patrol South Africa's borders.

Sentech hopes to create fleet of drones that can take off by themselves and alert human operators to anomalies that could mean an attempted illegal crossing or other incursion.

It also wants the drones to be able to issue warnings automatically, along the lines of "move away from the boundary, you are entering a restricted area".

Meanwhile, back in a control room, operators would have access to live, high-definition video of what is going on, possibly augmented with data from sensors using everything from lasers to radar to create a detailed view of any event.

Ideally, Sentech says, its drones will have a range of capabilities making them useful for applications that include "security & defence", but none of its detailed specifications speak to a weapons platform.

South Africa has very porous borders with several of its neighbouring countries including Zimbabwe and Mozambique, and sees thousands of people crossing illegally each week.

https://www.businessinsider.co.za/business/sentech-wants-to-buy-autonomous-uavs-for-border-patrols-2020-8

this life self human being always forgetting so fast during the Apartheid rule SA where running to other Africans country know the Apartheid has stop the want kill illegal immigrant, senseless country with cold heart

heniford2:
this life self human being always forgetting so fast during the Apartheid rule SA where running to other Africans country know the Apartheid has stop the want kill illegal immigrant, senseless country with cold heart

South Africans were not entering those countries illegally. Today, it has a very welcoming policy towards asylum seekers who are sought by their brutal governments back home. And here I'm not talking about economic refugees.

TMKsouth:


South Africans were not entering those countries illegally. Today, it has a very welcoming policy towards asylum seekers who are sought by their brutal governments back home. And here I'm not talking about economic refugees.

Dude, can't you just give it a rest and never come back to Nairaland anymore.

heniford2:
this life self human being always forgetting so fast during the Apartheid rule SA where running to other Africans country know the Apartheid has stop the want kill illegal immigrant, senseless country with cold heart

Some South Africans are just quite ignorant, I'm just tired of seeing anything related to SA.

They should keep their country to themselves, I wish all foreigners could flee, including those whites, just watch how vulnerable those drug addicts would be, having their country to themselves.

James4bright:


Dude, can't you just give it a rest and never come back to Nairaland anymore.

Go tell that to the 800,000 Nigerians in South Africa.

You see now how annoying it is?

James4bright:


Some South Africans are just quite ignorant, I'm just tired of seeing anything related to SA.

They should keep their country to themselves, I wish all foreigners could flee, including those whites, just watch how vulnerable those drug addicts would be, having their country to themselves.

And yet you are in every South African thread.

White worship again, you never disappoint your masters FYI, richest kingdom in Africa below.

TMKsouth:

Go tell that to the 800,000 Nigerians in South Africa.
You see now how annoying it is?

Leave in peace and never come back. We don't care about your country.

James4bright:


Leave in peace and never come back. We don't care about your country.

You care enough to follow me everywhere. UNFOLLOW ME with IMMEDIATE EFFECT.

Am I the only one that is tired of South Africans

Abso1uteZero:
Am I the only one that is tired of South Africans

Lol, South Africans have been tired of Nigerians living in SA for a long time, this is cyberspace, we can log in or out in a matter of secs.

IronGalaxy:
Lol, South Africans have been tired of Nigerians living in SA for a long time.

He's only just waking up to reality. SA has been sick of him for 2 decades now