No! We absolutely don’t use drones for surveillance, spying, or snooping. Our drones also do not have the capability to do any of that.
The fact is, as long as it has propellers (or jet engines), there’s compression and rarefaction of the air, producing motion of air molecules. This movement propagates through the air as pressure waves. These sound and pressure waves can be heard at long distances. There’s no way to overcome this except by flying very high up so that the waves have completely dissipated and don’t reach the ground or the individual being monitored.
Science-Fiction is still completely fiction.
What you might have seen fictionalized on TV/Movies is fiction, and we don’t have military drones.
At just 50’ high, people start to look like ants. Non-military drones cannot clearly zoom to photograph or video through a window unless it’s within a few feet. To identify an individual or make out any specific details, non-military drones must fly very close to the subject, where they can be easily heard and seen. Thus making them utterly impractical for covert surveillance.
100-Feet Above Ground Level
Our drones cannot identify persons from a distance. If you’re inside, we definitely can’t see you. Even if you’re outside, you will be unidentifiable. Our drones will never be flown close enough to see through any windows.
Additionally, all civilian aerial drones (including ours) are not capable of “zooming in” or enlarging photographs/video like you might have seen on TV shows or movies. Those types of dramatizations are completely FICTIONAL and not remotely like reality. Even the military is still wishing for all those types of capabilities and for the type of clarity that has been depicted on TV and in movies.
The reality is that those “sci-fi” features are just impossible because lenses capable of that type of magnification are very large, long, and heavy—too heavy for civilian drones. It is physically and optically impossible to miniaturize them and make lighter versions small enough. The lens would also need very complex image stabilization technology to overcome the significant vibration and movement intensified by the lens’s increased magnification power.
Engineers and scientists are skeptical that these limitations can ever be broken in our lifetimes. So, until some non-existent genius makes an unlikely breakthrough and figures out how to alter the laws of physics and optical science, drones will continue to be the absolute worst and most ineffective way to photograph or spy on anyone covertly.
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