Alarm as US far-right extremists eye drones for use in domestic attacks

The Guardian ^ | 8/30/25 | Ben Makuch

[Libloather]

Taking their cues from modern warfare, the far-right American terrorist movement sees off-the-shelf or home-built first-person viewer (FPV) drones as a critical weapon in their own future war against the US government, which has American authorities on edge.

And there’s ample reasons for those fears: in the open and closed online spaces where far-right extremists congregate, talk is commonplace of how these cheap drones are revolutionizing current wars and will be the critical tools of a so-called second civil war.

“The use of FPV drones in the war between Russia and Ukraine, the use of drones by terrorist groups such as Isis, and the use of drones by violent criminal groups, such as drug cartels, give examples that domestic extremists may seek to emulate or learn from,” said Joshua Fisher-Birch, a professional analyst who has tracked far-right extremists of every ilk, for close to a decade.

“Groups or individuals could potentially use commercial or home-made drones for reconnaissance purposes or in an offensive capacity.”

Fisher-Birch gave the recent example of a neo-Nazi in Nashville who plotted to bomb a power station with a drone, but was foiled by police. According to Fisher-Birch, there is already extremist chatter observing how criminal groups use the drones as force multipliers against government forces.

“Pretty decent study on how [unmanned aerial systems] are being utilized by cartels, some good insights can be found here,” posted one popular neo-Nazi account on Telegram, attaching a military pamphlet discussing drone warfare to its followers. “If you want to know what a low-intensity conflict, insurgency, or whatever term we’re using this decade would look like, just look south.”

[clutzyfuzzy]

You are telling me how the Cali fire actually happened.

Are you saying that is how the arsonists are going to do their stuff too?

You said arsonists are going to use green belts, I am presuming farmland, to get to cities. I am also assuming large urban cities. Do you mean forest areas around small towns? Like what are you talking about here? You told me to reread, I reread and I was still confused.

[Carry_Okie]

Are you saying that is how the arsonists are going to do their stuff too?

No, I'm saying the arsonists can take advantage of similar conditions that made Santa Rosa such a disaster.

You said arsonists are going to use green belts, I am presuming farmland,

You presume inaccurately, albeit we have forests around here that are on long-abandoned farmland. These areas are heavily forested because vegetation management in this country is abysmal, primarily because a long standing mythology about "Nature." The real estate racket took advantage of that psychological conditioning driving the Agenda 21 designed to cram people into urbanized areas circumscribed with "greenbelts." Then they squeeze landowners on the outside with regulations, including those in the name of "public safety." I wrote a book on this topic back in the late 90s.

[Glad2bnuts]

So the Right Wing is the ones to fear attack from? Total BS.

[clutzyfuzzy]

Ah