One of the current fears is that some evil person will use a hobby-grade toy aircraft to deliver a small but powerful bomb made of some military-grade explosive.
This seems somewhat along the lines of using readily-available materials to construct an oscillating mount for an M60 machine gun. (Unless you can buy an M60 at the local hardware store; is Albuquerque an NFA sanctuary city?)
Anyway, aside from the question of someone with good explosives using a toy to deliver them, shall we consider the practicalities?
Those toys have limited flying range - especially if burdened! - and, even in the absence of jamming, limited control range. The best-case useful range would be, oh...
...Maybe less than the effective range of a spud gun? So why not just fashion a potato out of C-4, add a detonator of some sort, and deliver it ballistically? Or find a suitable tree, a bunch of rubber tubing, and a dog dish, and build a giant slingshot?
But the prospect of high-tech toys (or other unfamiliar items) being put to naughty uses is grounds for moral panic, so "drones" are the worry of the day.
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