12-24-2018, 08:49 PM
THE DRONE WARS....EPISODE 7, ‘THE NEUTERING OF GATWICK’.
Back in and around 2012/13 before the major drone wars had begun, the bad guys had planned to fit out drones with C4 and fly them into parked passenger aircraft at Heathrow. Don’t bother googling it as you won’t find it, but it’s true. It never eventuates, but the minds of those who actively seek to hurt us were in full swing.
In August this year we had an attempted assassination of the Venezuelan El Presidente by drones loaded with explosives (link below);
https://www.theverge.com/2018/8/17/17703...las-maduro
Now we have had a sustained 3 day nuisance attack on a major UK airport that has caused chaos and the loss of hundreds of millions of dollars in pounds as a result. And by whom? Some still say a possible terrorist organisation, some say potentially it was a couple of middle-aged fatties with an axe to grind. Either way, the police, military and Governmental powers were effectively neutered, left vulnerable, left incapable of neutralising the threat, which has left them with egg covering their smug faces.
For the armchair observer, this incident should ring effing great big alarm bells. This incident has highlighted how vulnerable every airport is to a sneak attack, as well as other infrastructure. In the land of Oz, we have dross like Peter Dutton pushing through draconian security rules that are forcing airports, and the public, to have to tend with body scanners, upgraded security equipment, ASIC cards, increased regulatory audits and outlandish security regulations and scrutiny, and for what? Some chump(s) with their $500 drones can create havoc and mischief at an airport near you. Worse, the bad guys can load a dozen drones with explosives and fly them under the noses of even the best equipped military units and fly them into some parked, taxiing or flying aircraft quicker than it takes a Minister to say ‘Trough’! Done, dusted, carnage and death on the 6 o’clock news.
I don’t know which country will get to earn the title of ‘First Widebody Aircraft Brought Down By A Drone’, but the clock is clicking and it isn’t slowing down......
Tick Tock CAsA and Miniscule
Back in and around 2012/13 before the major drone wars had begun, the bad guys had planned to fit out drones with C4 and fly them into parked passenger aircraft at Heathrow. Don’t bother googling it as you won’t find it, but it’s true. It never eventuates, but the minds of those who actively seek to hurt us were in full swing.
In August this year we had an attempted assassination of the Venezuelan El Presidente by drones loaded with explosives (link below);
https://www.theverge.com/2018/8/17/17703...las-maduro
Now we have had a sustained 3 day nuisance attack on a major UK airport that has caused chaos and the loss of hundreds of millions of dollars in pounds as a result. And by whom? Some still say a possible terrorist organisation, some say potentially it was a couple of middle-aged fatties with an axe to grind. Either way, the police, military and Governmental powers were effectively neutered, left vulnerable, left incapable of neutralising the threat, which has left them with egg covering their smug faces.
For the armchair observer, this incident should ring effing great big alarm bells. This incident has highlighted how vulnerable every airport is to a sneak attack, as well as other infrastructure. In the land of Oz, we have dross like Peter Dutton pushing through draconian security rules that are forcing airports, and the public, to have to tend with body scanners, upgraded security equipment, ASIC cards, increased regulatory audits and outlandish security regulations and scrutiny, and for what? Some chump(s) with their $500 drones can create havoc and mischief at an airport near you. Worse, the bad guys can load a dozen drones with explosives and fly them under the noses of even the best equipped military units and fly them into some parked, taxiing or flying aircraft quicker than it takes a Minister to say ‘Trough’! Done, dusted, carnage and death on the 6 o’clock news.
I don’t know which country will get to earn the title of ‘First Widebody Aircraft Brought Down By A Drone’, but the clock is clicking and it isn’t slowing down......
Tick Tock CAsA and Miniscule