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Ha, I'm just back from a walk down the street where a thought popped into mind, upon seeing a group of people, how 'easy' it would be to drop a load of simple f
by detritus 6y ago
Ha, I'm just back from a walk down the street where a thought popped into mind, upon seeing a group of people, how 'easy' it would be to drop a load of simple flechettes from a drone and cause havoc all for an impressively low amount of money. No complicated to make/source explosives or poisons or chemicals - just a quadcopter and some bits of metal.
I have a lot of such happy thoughts.
- TeMPOraL 6y agoEver since I saw it in some old GTA game, I keep wondering why bombs strapped to small RC cars aren't used much more often by gangs and terrorists. I'm still not sure why, but I think for the same reasons the attack you just described hasn't happened yet, despite it being easy to do.
- detritus 6y agoWell, my happy thought doesn't require explosives, just a bit of altitude!
- amelius 6y agoAnd lifting power. You'd need quite a lot of it if you'd want to deploy this to a larger group of people. For this reason I think it's not allowed to fly larger/heavier drones without a permit.
- detritus 6y agoSure, but who would procure a permit for a one-time use terrorist device built from off the shelf parts? Also, you only care about getting the thing into position and then dropping its payload - it doesn't much matter what happens to it after, so your energy requirements don't need to require landing. Heck, the drone itself could be considered a secondary payload.
- opwieurposiu 6y agoThis idea has been tried, for example in the vietnam war. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lazy_Dog_(bomb) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lazy_Dog_(bomb)
- detritus 6y agoAye - 'flechettes' were used in WWI - basically arrow heads dropped from the barest of planes able to be described as such. It's incredibly old 'tech'. - ed - oops! I see that's right there in your link.