Did anyone point out yet that Elon turd‘s brother owns that giant entertainment drone company after he went to burning man and saw that giant drone display?? You know the drones that are ppl are seeing above all the cities? Imagine that.🙃 Elon said he had a big surprise.
There are an awful lot of ways to kill an awful lot of people without having to go to flight school. Even a tech-and-gun dummy like me can envisage quite a few of them and I'm sure we'll find out about others.
Yep. If Guys with guns can't defend themselves day or night on the battlefield.. I shudder to think what a drone with a bomb does to a political dissenter or protest, when laws are being enacted that makes that legal.
And about the videos of drone combat on the subreddits... those are highlight reels of drones flown by professional soldiers who have been at it full-time for months or years. Results are not typical. :)
I should probably elaborate on the explosives regulation point...
The reason you had so many bombing in the 50s-70s is that explosives used to be pretty easy to get. Rural hardware stores often carried dynamite sixty years ago, b/c farmers used it for digging ditches and removing stumps/rocks. 1/n
In 1970, Congress federalized a lot of explosives regulations through the Organized Crime Control Act of 1970. Both the law and the implementing regulations have been regularly tightened since then, making access to explosives a significant paper chase. 2/n
Yup. LE stuff like smokeless powder is easy to get, but anything approaching HE detonation velocity is either too bulky for a drone (ANFO) or pretty highly regulated. Only way you're getting your hands on it is through diversion
ANFO is functionally difficult to get, b/c the ammonium nitrate sold for fertilizer use is treated in ways that make it difficult to use for explosive purposes... and you still need a slug of some other HE to motivate it. Diversion is also a lot more challenging than it used to be.
Yep. The amount of shit McVeigh and Nichols got away with was even a lot for 1995, especially two years after WTC bombing. They had 60k in cash, paid cash for a shitload of racing fuel, stole a ton of blasting caps and I think a small amount of HE?
It's the sort of paper chase that's not too bad for a company that needs to use explosives in the course of its business -- they can typically just make it part of someone's job duties to manage the paperwork and comply with the (very sensible) storage and housekeeping requirements. 3/n
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remember munitions include things like software
1) explosives are, for the most part, well regulated in the US
2) it's a lot harder in practice than the subreddits make it look
And one thing I've noticed looking at mass shooters is that they tend to be lazy.
The reason you had so many bombing in the 50s-70s is that explosives used to be pretty easy to get. Rural hardware stores often carried dynamite sixty years ago, b/c farmers used it for digging ditches and removing stumps/rocks. 1/n
In the US, if you want to do lots of killing and don't much care who you kill, you can get a truck, an AR-15, and level 3 plates pretty much anywhere.
We're awash in guns.
https://youtu.be/9fa9lVwHHqg?si=uJ93Enc-RtahOcMr
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Terrible idea.