Comment on Is the U.S. Vulnerable to a Drone Sneak Attack?

floo@retrolemmy.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• Pistcow@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Gestures Broadly

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• UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The Billion Dollar Question.

  Japan tried to bomb the US by sending balloons over the jet stream and it was largely ineffective due to the range and lack of precision. Moving a weapon across an ocean and into range of a target without a ton of telecommunication support and manual intervention would be a herculean task. Far easier to just bomb one of the hundreds of US military bases local to your neighborhood, as with the Al Qaeda bombing of the US base in Somalia or the Houthis in Yemen targeting US bases and large ships trying to navigate the Red Sea.

  But domestically? A little surprised nobody has tried to turn a large drone aircraft into a weapon for an Oklahoma City style attack.

  If you look at the techniques employed by the Ukrainian insurgents against Russia, explosives embedded into the shipping containers of large trucks have been incredibly potent. Drones hidden within the tops of shipping containers put Ukraine within striking distance of the Russian bomber fleet.

  Definitely something a committed insurgency within the States could employ against police/military.

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  • unpossum@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Ukrainian insurgents defenders

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    • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      When they’re behind enemy lines, I’d say they’re on offense.

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      • unpossum@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Then they’re commandos or special forces. ‘Insurgents’ implies an uprising against a central government, and serves to reinforce the Russian narrative of Ukraine being part of their empire.

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  • reptar@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    …into a weapon for an Oklahoma City style attack.

    In terms of the actual explosive, I think that was a whole lot of mass.

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    • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Heavy Lift drones can carry upwards of 55 lbs. And there’s no reason you’re limited to one.

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• Treczoks@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Just look at the list of countries that the USA has pissed off in the last whatever years, and choose one at random.

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• gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Specifically? Who knows, but the concept has already been tested by someone

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