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> If military drones were to become real and as capable as in the video, they would be hard to aquire, maintain, operate and keep hidden. Couldn't a terrorist

by kypro 3y ago

> If military drones were to become real and as capable as in the video, they would be hard to aquire, maintain, operate and keep hidden. Couldn't a terrorist load an explosive on a drone and drove it into a music festival or some other open-air large gathering? This is what concerns me personally. Although long-term (~10 years) I wouldn't bet on more capable weaponised drones being hard to aquire, maintain, or operate.

i_am_jl 3y ago
Someone tried to assassinate Nicolas Maduro with drones carrying explosives back in 2018. Protections against this sort of thing usually exist in the form of radio jammers; disrupting the control transmission from the pilot or the video transmission from the drone. If the control system is onboard the drone it's a lot harder to disrupt. As far as I know the systems designed to counter this sort of threat look like shipping container sized microwave emitters that interfere with the electronics of the UAV.
badideathrway1 3y ago
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chasd00 3y ago
At ACL (Austin city limits), a music festival in TX, as soon as the sun goes down you see drone leds overhead everywhere. It wouldn’t be that hard.
- jillesvangurp 3y ago
  Any of the drones used in the Ukraine right now would be able to do a lot of damage. And those things are relatively low tech. The reason these horror scenarios aren't so common is that most people simply are not suicidal murderers. It's always been easy to target crowds of people. But it's not that common for people to actually do that. When it does happen, there usually isn't a happy end for anyone involved with the attack. Any determined idiot armed with a knife, baseball bat, truck, improvised explosives, etc. would be able to do quite a bit of damage. And in the US you can of course add all the light military gear that lots of people there buy for fun (assault rifles, etc.). That sometimes goes horribly wrong of course but you don't need drones to do a lot of damage.
  - flangola7 3y ago
    Semiautomatic rifles were legal in the US for a time before someone shot up the first high school. But now it's a concept in the public consciousness and schools need to have shooter drills due the frequency.

by kypro 3y ago

i_am_jl 3y ago

Someone tried to assassinate Nicolas Maduro with drones carrying explosives back in 2018. Protections against this sort of thing usually exist in the form of radio jammers; disrupting the control transmission from the pilot or the video transmission from the drone. If the control system is onboard the drone it's a lot harder to disrupt. As far as I know the systems designed to counter this sort of threat look like shipping container sized microwave emitters that interfere with the electronics of the UAV.

badideathrway1 3y ago

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chasd00 3y ago

At ACL (Austin city limits), a music festival in TX, as soon as the sun goes down you see drone leds overhead everywhere. It wouldn’t be that hard.

jillesvangurp 3y ago
Any of the drones used in the Ukraine right now would be able to do a lot of damage. And those things are relatively low tech. The reason these horror scenarios aren't so common is that most people simply are not suicidal murderers. It's always been easy to target crowds of people. But it's not that common for people to actually do that. When it does happen, there usually isn't a happy end for anyone involved with the attack. Any determined idiot armed with a knife, baseball bat, truck, improvised explosives, etc. would be able to do quite a bit of damage. And in the US you can of course add all the light military gear that lots of people there buy for fun (assault rifles, etc.). That sometimes goes horribly wrong of course but you don't need drones to do a lot of damage.
- flangola7 3y ago
  Semiautomatic rifles were legal in the US for a time before someone shot up the first high school. But now it's a concept in the public consciousness and schools need to have shooter drills due the frequency.