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Amusing to picture our "3" terrorists carefully assembling 10m drones, each with a 1g shaped charge on it - or does the author think this is something that you
by glangdale 7y ago
Amusing to picture our "3" terrorists carefully assembling 10m drones, each with a 1g shaped charge on it - or does the author think this is something that you can just order from some factory in China, along with the 10 tons of plastic explosive.
It seems to be that anyone sophisticated enough to put 10 tons of plastic explosive in any form wherever they feel like is already quite capable of causing massive casualties.
Somehow, to make this even remotely plausible, we need to intersect a lot of unlikely combinations (a bunch of really bad guys who are hugely resourced, very technical and intelligent, completely uninfiltrated, fighting for some goal that isn't going to be radically harmed by the optics of killing thousands of soft targets).
- winfred 7y agoSounds like a James Bond plot to me.
- glangdale 7y agoThe more I think about this, the funnier it gets. How long would it take to unpack a drone, put a power source in it, and install a 1g shaped charge on a drone and pack it away? 30 seconds? It seems like something you wouldn't exactly want to rush. So with 3 terrorists, assuming they worked 16 hour days, they'd have their devices ready in 4.75 years, assuming they didn't take any holidays.