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100 points polalavik | 5 comments | 21 Nov 25 22:11 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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BadBadJellyBean ◴[21 Nov 25 22:48 UTC] No.46009959[source]▶
I find it interesting that the question is "why don't they use drones". My question is: why so much air surveillance? I live in Germany. The only times I hear a helicopter is if someone is being rescued or if someones missing. I rarely see them at all.
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1. embedding-shape ◴[21 Nov 25 22:56 UTC] No.46010046[source]▶
Where in Germany though? Helicopters tend to be more popular to use for various purposes in very densely populated places, like Hong Kong or New York City, but you don't really see them much in rural areas except for emergencies.
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2. BadBadJellyBean ◴[21 Nov 25 23:00 UTC] No.46010088[source]▶
In a big city. Not rural at all.
3. c0balt ◴[21 Nov 25 23:02 UTC] No.46010102[source]▶
At least for Berlin I can attest that helicopters, outside of the yellow ones for emergency care, are a very rare occurrence. I have yet so see a police helicopter outside of a large demonstration.
4. Semaphor ◴[21 Nov 25 23:05 UTC] No.46010132[source]▶
I live in a pop 200k city, hospital copters are a daily occurrence. Police? Never seen one, Hamburg, one of our biggest cities, apparently has 3.
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5. rootusrootus ◴[21 Nov 25 23:37 UTC] No.46010407[source]▶
Same for me. I live in a pop 1M city in America. Hospital choppers are fairly common. Police choppers rare.

Also, according to the tracker, there's only one airborne in LA right now, and it is a pretty large city. It's close to 100x bigger than a 200k city.