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Because these things aren’t reliable enough. Operations like this take years to plan and you often get only one shot. This also means that this story is quite

Because these things aren’t reliable enough. Operations like this take years to plan and you often get only one shot. This also means that this story is quite likely fiction.

93po 6y ago
Have you seen people doing drone racing? I think this would be pretty easy for them, and even if it's not reliable you're out $200 and some DIY time. Even if it takes 5 attempts, $1000 is cheap as hell to assassinate someone
- dogma1138 6y ago
  That’s not the point. The cost of assassinations on this level is in the prep work. It takes very large amounts of money, skill and time to develop and run an intelligence network capable of pulling something like this off. As counter intuitive as it seems these organizations are extremely risk averse because to them risks means years of work down the drain, opportunities lost and often for good and quite likely dead assets and or agents. A $200 or even a $2000 drone doesn’t minimizes these risks it introduces additional ones. Killing someone in a hail of bullets is easy and reliable, using a toy with a small explosive attached to it isn’t.
  - sroussey 6y ago
    Use a remote control drone airship and drop 25-50 guidable mini bombs to hit the target in a dispersion pattern with a concentrated center. Small radar footprint, quiet operation, large destruction area. Have backup gunman to mop up if needed, likely same pointing illuminator at target. Not what happened but easy enough.
    - dogma1138 6y ago
      I don’t think you realize just how ridiculous what you proposing is... Might as well call a B-52 to carpet bomb the place. You aren’t getting an airship and a few dozens of drones into a country like Iran.
      - haram_masala 6y ago
        Nonsense, that plan worked perfectly in Call of Duty 4.
  - 93po 6y ago
    I'm not talking about coordinated organizational assassinations. I am talking about lone wolf extremists that want to murder someone who maybe isn't even that high profile in the national stage. I could rig up something like this in a single day and could probably practice flying casually in the evenings to become proficient enough. It's a really low barrier of entry for anyone technically savvy and violent enough Disclaimer: all hypotheticals, I don't advocate violence, I would never do this even for hypothetical purposes
    - dogma1138 6y ago
      A gun has even a lower barrier of entry if you want to kill someone, and kitchen knives even lower. Small drones can’t cary a lot of payload getting your hands on high explosives that would actually do enough damage isn’t easy, rigging this up in a safe manner isn’t as easy as you think either. Like I’m not saying you should try to do this to prove a point but you have much higher chances of blowing yourself up or even more likely be arrested prior than you think.
- alacombe 6y ago
  That would only cover the delivery method, no the payload, but this is very much of a covert way to assassinate someone. Killing people is easy, the biggest shortcoming is that terrorist are trying to be as visible as possible. This is the same shortcoming seen is so many Hollywood movie... when you have to shoot, shoot, don't talk.

Because these things aren’t reliable enough. Operations like this take years to plan and you often get only one shot. This also means that this story is quite likely fiction.

93po 6y ago

Have you seen people doing drone racing? I think this would be pretty easy for them, and even if it's not reliable you're out $200 and some DIY time. Even if it takes 5 attempts, $1000 is cheap as hell to assassinate someone

dogma1138 6y ago
That’s not the point. The cost of assassinations on this level is in the prep work. It takes very large amounts of money, skill and time to develop and run an intelligence network capable of pulling something like this off. As counter intuitive as it seems these organizations are extremely risk averse because to them risks means years of work down the drain, opportunities lost and often for good and quite likely dead assets and or agents. A $200 or even a $2000 drone doesn’t minimizes these risks it introduces additional ones. Killing someone in a hail of bullets is easy and reliable, using a toy with a small explosive attached to it isn’t.
- sroussey 6y ago
  Use a remote control drone airship and drop 25-50 guidable mini bombs to hit the target in a dispersion pattern with a concentrated center. Small radar footprint, quiet operation, large destruction area. Have backup gunman to mop up if needed, likely same pointing illuminator at target. Not what happened but easy enough.
  - dogma1138 6y ago
    I don’t think you realize just how ridiculous what you proposing is... Might as well call a B-52 to carpet bomb the place. You aren’t getting an airship and a few dozens of drones into a country like Iran.
    - haram_masala 6y ago
      Nonsense, that plan worked perfectly in Call of Duty 4.
- 93po 6y ago
  I'm not talking about coordinated organizational assassinations. I am talking about lone wolf extremists that want to murder someone who maybe isn't even that high profile in the national stage. I could rig up something like this in a single day and could probably practice flying casually in the evenings to become proficient enough. It's a really low barrier of entry for anyone technically savvy and violent enough Disclaimer: all hypotheticals, I don't advocate violence, I would never do this even for hypothetical purposes
  - dogma1138 6y ago
    A gun has even a lower barrier of entry if you want to kill someone, and kitchen knives even lower. Small drones can’t cary a lot of payload getting your hands on high explosives that would actually do enough damage isn’t easy, rigging this up in a safe manner isn’t as easy as you think either. Like I’m not saying you should try to do this to prove a point but you have much higher chances of blowing yourself up or even more likely be arrested prior than you think.
alacombe 6y ago
That would only cover the delivery method, no the payload, but this is very much of a covert way to assassinate someone. Killing people is easy, the biggest shortcoming is that terrorist are trying to be as visible as possible. This is the same shortcoming seen is so many Hollywood movie... when you have to shoot, shoot, don't talk.