Posted on 08/25/2014 9:03:35 PM PDT by Nachum
A member of the Islamic State (IS, formerly known as ISIS) has threatened that the organization would soon use unmanned drones to attack Israel.
The IS member, a Canadian who left his country to fight alongside the IS in the areas of Iraq and Syria it declared to be an Islamic Caliphate, claimed on Twitter that the group was developing these drones and that they would be unveiled in the near future.
He further said that engineers who studied in the West are working on the drones.
IS, he wrote, is expected to make use of these drones to attack targets in Baghdad, Kurdistan, Syria, "occupied Palestine" and the United States.
He added that the drones used to attack targets in the United States would be launched from Mexico.
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ROFL!
The incredible propaganda of the thugs known as ISIS continues!
Somehow a Far Side cartoon about cave men comes to mind...
These drones from Obama are not the drones you are looking for.
Unfortunately, a rather low-tech drone using commercially available GPS homing and the like would be an excellent terror tool and extremely difficult to interdict. Payload would be quite limited in weight and volume, however.
The “Payload” is the whole point behind Drones and although not an entirely technologically prohibitive tool for those who have not developed and fielded such a weapon to date, it is not such a simple technology to master when you consider using it as an offensive weapon other than a “kamikaze” drone.
Too many people overestimate the actual feasibility of this tool at this time. To suggest that ISIS will soon be sending waves of Drones into the U.S. manned with Hellfire type missiles to terrorize Americans is absurd.
That will change in the future as technology advances along with the availability of such platforms, but currently it is simply a propaganda tool, IMO.
“Payload would be quite limited in weight and volume, however.”
Yes, but a drone that can lift a heavy camera can also lift enough C4 to ruin your day. A swarm of those would be handy tools for targeted assassinations.
“To suggest that ISIS will soon be sending waves of Drones into the U.S. manned with Hellfire type missiles to terrorize Americans is absurd.”
Who was suggesting that?
And do you suppose the location of whoever was launching and guiding said “kamikaze” drones could not be easily and quickly located and annihilated?
I believe that the hysteria concerning Drones and their current capabilities are wholly overstated, but perhaps that’s just me.
I am very familiar with widely available hobby components and completed platforms with payload and guidance capabilities.
We are not talking about a weapon of mass destruction — which takes a nation-state to engineer — but a tool or terror that terrorizes people when it flies overhead similar to V2 in WWII. Even a large firecracker would scare people if they think it might land on them. Send a few over a market area and customer traffic would go to zero.
it is amazing just how Satanic.... and how full of bellicose BullSh*t, all these IslamoNazis are...whether in the Iranian thugocracy or now ISIS or Hezebelah or Hezbellah or the “Palestinian Authority” — two lies in two words, quite a record that!...or in the Muslim Brotherhood, or any of the rest of the terrorist gangs)
bang bang yack yack threat threat hang bang bomb bomb threat threat bang bang lie lie yack yack thrat threat BS BS BS
Maybe if we just stop reading all the news reports from these Luciferian A-holes, and obviously keep our guard up against them...and our powder dry, we can maybe get on with half-way decent lives again.....?
if we continue to listen to all the IslamoNazi lies and bS ....we will certainly go insane...
just a thought
Agreed.
I work with the companies that have developed and fielded the military Drones that we have fielded, and I'm also well aware of the capabilities of the civilian drones and likely derivatives that can be used to perform such “terrorist” attacks and I'm not going to lose a seconds sleep over the belief that said “low tech” will either shut down the economic activity of any given area in this country for more than 24 hours as long as our (given they are limp wristed) government and military are %10 as competent as advertised.
Seriously, FR has devolved into a hysterical forum of cowards as of late. That I feel depressed about more than the unbelievable hypothesis I see posted more and more as of late.
If they start attacking the Israelis, well we’ll be seeing what fires in the desert that used to be Islamic crazies..
(IS, formerly known as ISIS)
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Cant wait till they are called ISNT.
“And do you suppose the location of whoever was launching and guiding said “kamikaze” drones could not be easily and quickly located and annihilated?”
As drone lift capacity and on-board computational power increase, I doubt it would be hard for the experts to launch an autonomous drone with pre-programmed GPS target coordinates and leave before retribution occurred. I also expect target image recognition to become a reality if not already so. Someday no “pilot” will be needed after the initial launch.
I do not disagree with that hypothesis, but said capabilities are not currently widespread nor “cheap”, nor could those who launched said vehicles easily escape retaliation (currently).
As I said before, technology advances and what has been posited will be possibly, but at this time, it is not as easily said as done.
Now, for the real question, how long will it be until such tech is common and able to be used against us in such a manner? I’m thinking in a decade or less, so it will likely be coming, but I’m not of the opinion that the capability is there at this time.
Intelligence is paramount, and perhaps that is the arena in which we are truly falling behind.
We are in agreement on those points. I am sure that anything I can generally imagine has already been prototyped by the military. Cruise missiles carrying digital images of the terrain have been around for decades now. Now software can recognize vehicles and faces. It is only a matter of time before the technology trickles down and the costs come down as they always do in consumer electronics. I was guessing five years and you think it might be ten or less. The “future” isn’t far off! I recently read about new neural computer chips that mimic the brain and promise a breakthrough in image-recognition speeds. No, drones certainly can’t destroy the nation, but they could carry out limited objectives.
One thing that unnerves me is the fact that the old Tomahawks that worked via the digital images of terrain were discontinued in favor of GPS guided Tomahawks.
The old tech was difficult to manage and slow to engage if you needed to program an unanticipated “terrain” that wasn’t already prepared for, but at least they would work whether or not our GPS satellites were functional.
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