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The reason you would carry such an attack by drone is to escape attribution (and thus elimination/arrest), this becomes harder if you must launch the drone in c
by cakealert 1y ago
The reason you would carry such an attack by drone is to escape attribution (and thus elimination/arrest), this becomes harder if you must launch the drone in close proximity to the target to evade a patrolling defensive drone swarm.
You will most likely require a ground drone with high explosives or launching an air attack drone, which will become an expensive complex operation. Mitigating the threat of cheap drones.
- intended 1y agoI think that isn't the reason. The article says: > But the threat of soft-target suicide terrorism never came to much, because a suicide bomber is a targeting system with an ego. stating that many targets which would have truly been disastrous if hit, were ignored because the attackers wanted to satiate their egos or narrative, by hitting landmarks / high profile symbolic sites.
- cakealert 1y agoA drone operator that is caught soon after an attack doesn't differ much from a suicide bomber that removes himself from the world during his attack.
- jonplackett 1y agoReally? There's a pretty massive difference in that one definitely dies, and can only do one mission. The other could control 100s of drones and also believe they won't die.
- arrowsmith 1y agoNo, the reason you would carry such an attack by drone is because drones are cheap and accessible, in a way that simply didn't exist ten years ago.