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To cause disruption, show how fragile the infrastructure is to asymmetric attacks. Possibly also with an eco activist motivation, to ground hundreds of planes.
by KozmoNau7 8y ago
To cause disruption, show how fragile the infrastructure is to asymmetric attacks. Possibly also with an eco activist motivation, to ground hundreds of planes. Possibly also to make an anti-capitalist statement.
I think it's extremely fascinating, and I bet this won't be the last we've seen of this sort of thing happening. The impact is so huge for a relatively small cost and effort.
- graton 8y agoIt depends if five years in prison will be considered a small cost by them. If they do get convicted and serve that long or longer they may not consider it a small cost. Yes the initial cost to launch the attack is small.
- KozmoNau7 8y agoOn the other hand, the cost of a couple of drones, and only two people in prison, does seem like a rather low cost for the sheer amount of chaos they caused. 100,000+ people kept from traveling, an entire airport basically shut down, military response, the whole lot, by just two people with a drone. That's rather impressive.
- mikeash 8y agoIf this starts happening frequently, I think the response will become more reasonable. Birds pose a similar risk and the response there is to try to keep them away, and build aircraft to withstand most hits.