Why aren't there more terrorist attacks with drones?
Why aren't there more terrorist attacks with drones?
Connor Carter
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Michael Edwards
drones are used to some extent in the middle east, but thats mainly with ieds made out of grenades and mortars dropped from above
Jose Davis
Because 1st world countries can use radar to track drones large enough to carry explosives that do significant damage.
And because you're a faggot.
Lincoln Clark
post more webms like this, pls.
Charles Butler
This, also most terrorist are not very bright.
See the recent mail guy for reference.
Nathaniel Collins
Because the FAA and norad watch the skies like a damn hawk.
Anything big enough to carry a payload capable of doing any real damage, will be big enough to pick up on radar.
Look how fuckhuge those octocoptor cinema drones are, just to be able to carry a 8lbs camera w/lens.
To be capable of carrying any ordnance with the ability of doing serious harm (faggy grenade drones dont count), then its going to also scale up. There goes the whole “surprise” aspect when you’ve got a hobbyist radioshack monstrosity the width/length of a sedan, just be able to carry a 100lbs bomb.
Adrian Ortiz
There were a number of them carrying grenades a few months back.
A load of AP would fuck some shit up, and still be small enough to not cause alarm on radar
Asher Evans
A rifle grenade dropped into a crowd is enough to cause large casualties. I'm specifically asking about grenades, I understand why it's infeasible with a 100lbs payload.
Also, fixed wing aircraft are much more efficient than multirotors. And nothing prevents someone from using several of them.
Tyler Ward
>You may live to see carpet bombing runs by hundred strong drone swarms carrying bomblets.
What a time to live in.
Carson Flores
Reminds me of the end of one of the armored core games. Just you against millions of unmanned suicide drones.
Brody Thompson
>Also, fixed wing aircraft are much more efficient than multirotors. And nothing prevents someone from using several of them.
Except when it comes to manoeuvring, aiming and landing. There's a reason mini-drone use exploded when quadcopters were matured.
Andrew Robinson
>manoeuvring
only needs to fly in a straight line over the target
>aiming
the same, the rifle grenades in the video are just dropped
>landing
That's a non-concern, you can just shut off the controls as soon as it's dropped the payload anyway. It's not like you'll get to reuse them any time soon.
Dylan White
I don't think there's been a successful use of a fixed-wing drone by insurgents yet
Jaxon Martinez
People buy quads because hovering is much more useful for surveillance than loitering, and surveillance is essentially the only use for non-military drones.
Fixed wing drones are way more useful for military purposes, since they're faster, can carry a larger payload and can stay up way longer, which is why virtually all military drones are fixed wing, whether its the US or ISIS.
Leo Russell
Because if you are a terrorist these days you are probably an extremist islamist. And the only 72 virgins you will get as a droneoperator is your platoonmates.
Christian Thompson
The webm in the OP is from an official IS release.
Camden Young
underrated
Jack Robinson
Yeah, the weapon being dropped isn't from a fixed wing platform in the OP webm either.
1) The platform it drops from ISN'T MOVING. Straight away it tells you it's not a Skywalker X8 fixed-wing.
2) The weapon dropped is a 40mm grenade with a distinctive six fin tail. The weapons dropped from the fixed wing are white plastic cylinders wrapped in black tape. They're not even remotely similar.
3) The fixed wing drops two. A single grenade lands on a target.
Isaac Mitchell
You know those bombs are simply dropped. the effect of 'targeting' is complete bollocks.
I bet there are about a hundred drops that end with hilarious misses and they will make the three in a month they get hits look awesome.
Don't fall for the ISIS propaganda meme.
Elijah Thomas
Am army UAV operator can confirm. Faa is essentially sky ATF
Isaiah Scott
>which is why virtually all military drones are fixed wing, whether its the US or ISIS.
What
The most common ISIS drone is the DJI Phantom
Jacob Baker
it's an obvious edit in post, cletus
this was an necessary post
Levi Lee
>IS released a propaganda video in January 2017 which contained multiple drone strikes. Notable amongst these is a flying-wing type UAV, reported to be an 8X Skywalker drone, which appears to carry two bombs at once in an under-wing configuration. These appear to be released simultaneously in the video.
>It should be noted that the forward movement of this kind of UAV makes it a poor platform for dropping munitions accurately, and it appears that every operational strike portrayed in the video was in fact from a hovering drone of some kind.
Christ use your head sometime
Thomas Scott
>which is why virtually all military drones are fixed wing, whether its the US or ISIS.
Have you just, like, not seen anything to do with ISIS drones beyond the OP's webm or something?
Jonathan Smith
Can't the necessary leading be predicted in software?
Camden Peterson
The bomb drops almost straight down. A bomb dropped from a moving plane would be moving forward. Also, that's some pretty shitty bomb cgi.
Juan Cook
Yes, the tracking is fake. But in theory, for someone more competent than IS.
Couldn't you calculate where the bomb will hit given height, speed, and wind?
Jordan Peterson
because we drone them with good drones before they get good drones
Carter Cook
Yep, physics 101
Jaxon Gomez
An IED is much cheaper and at least as likely to to be successful as a drone. Also if you have willing suicide/car bombers those will also be a more efficient use of explosives
Levi Gomez
honestly your webm answers your own question
even in a shithole country where bombs are a dime a dozen, a drone still didn't manage to kill anyone
they all get up afterwards
Leo Hernandez
They're still causualties, even a little bit of shrapnel will take someone out of the fight.
Asher Nelson
because it's cheaper to promise incels 70 virgins
Austin Jones
Software only works if you know the bomb is going to follow the prediction
Evan Morgan
Anyone capable of building a drone is capable of making phosgene gas, and they wouldn't need much of that at all.
Of course anyone with those skills probably also has a decent job that they're not ready to give up just yet. Chances are we'll see some real shit if the economy tanks.
John Roberts
You would probably be better off using incendiaries and targeting infrastructure
Much smaller and lighter than explosives.
Bentley Cruz
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Here is the full video. It has been muted because snack bar music and retarded edited sound effects