Drug cartel assassinates its enemies with bomb-toting drones
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#2Short-range air defense (SHORAD) is going to be a huge growth area for defense contractors over the next several years.
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#3Heh there was that killerbot video back in the day, swarm of small bomb drones hunting via facial recognition. Cartels are quite innovative when it comes to killing
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#4If this kind of thing keeps up it wouldn't be much of a stretch for drones to be banned from civilian ownership in many parts of the world.
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#5If this kind of thing keeps up it wouldn't be much of a stretch for drones to be banned from civilian ownership in many parts of the world.
As far as I know C4 isn't for civilians either..
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#6Interesting map, its crazy how often these groups fracture and splinter!
Really wish one of these would go publicly traded and report revenue, leading to real price discovery of these operations and ability to manage risk.
There are permissionless systems they can use now to list shares, and if they have a liquidity issue they just need to take over a dam and generate some electricity for themselves for their crypto mining hardware which will convert to currency.
I know I know, multiple topics for people to disagree with so I don't expect this to lead to a conversation about solutions today, I'm just making a note publicly that I perceived the possibilities before it happened.
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#7If this kind of thing keeps up it wouldn't be much of a stretch for drones to be banned from civilian ownership in many parts of the world.
The issue will be enforcement of these laws.
How will you regulate the possession and distribution of IMUs and electric motors?
Hell most of the parts you need to build a drone are available in a used cellphone and many of the rest can be 3d printed.
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#8Short-range air defense (SHORAD) is going to be a huge growth area for defense contractors over the next several years.
Imagine a hundred thousand of these things. Ugh. I don’t wanna know if that’s in our future.
Re: Drug cartel assassinates its enemies with bomb-toting drones
#9Short-range air defense (SHORAD) is going to be a huge growth area for defense contractors over the next several years.
Imagine a hundred thousand of these things. Ugh. I don’t wanna know if that’s in our future.
Each with and incendiary charge and the GPS coordinates of every home/building in a city. Who needs Tokyo/Dresden firebombing anymore.
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#10Man I knew it was just a matter of time for this to happen, to easy to do and to many intelligent people with no morals (or just desperate, threatened etc.).
Anyway thinks like this make it more likely for unreasonable regulations, like even small drones being tracked when used or similar. But the bad joke is it's pointless as:
- The "bad" people can always circumvent such measurements (it's illegal but you plan to do illegal things anyway)
- Even if drones are banned it's not too hard to build them yourself from parts your will always be able to get one way or another for not too much money.