Monday, July 24, 2017

Will Advances In Drone Technology Soon Make It Possible For Terror Drones From Africa Reaching The U.S.?

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Defense One: Trump’s Special Ops Pick Says Terror Drones Might Soon Reach the US from Africa. How Worried Should We Be?

Technological advancement could produce ocean-spanning consumer UAVs. But extremists won’t necessarily bother with them.

On a dusty beach in far western Africa, a group of men hop out of a pickup truck. They quickly assemble a small commercial drone and send it winging northwest across the Atlantic Ocean. A bit more than a day later, it will make landfall over the southeastern U.S. coast — its explosive payload still intact.

Advances in batteries and solar power could make this a reality, warns Owen West, whom President Donald Trump has tapped to oversee the Pentagon’s special operations and low-intensity conflicts.

“In about five years, drones will be able to be launched from Africa which can reach our shores, because they’ll have permanent power by the sun,” West told lawmakers last week during his confirmation hearing.

How likely is this scenario?

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WNU Editor: Why send it from Africa .... travel to Canada or Mexico and fly it from there. Or better still .... find a way to enter the U.S. and then use a terror drone within the U.S. itself. These concerns on how drone technology is changing .... and how it could be used in launching a terror attack .... are valid. ISIS has shown the way on how these drones can be used, and security specialists are justifiably concerned that it will only be a matter of time before other terror groups do the same thing.

4 comments:

Jac said...

I am surprise it would not happened yet. With a low effect, of course, but the threat will still be here, and that what the goal of terrorist is.

Jay Farquharson said...

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Jay Farquharson said...

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