Homemade drones can become unconventional weapons capable of penetrating secure areas

Evidence

But even if the drone can and should be demilitarized, it is also perfectly possible to convert such homemade machines into daunting unconventional weapons at little cost. The Russian researcher Eugene Miasnikov sees in amateur drones a “suicide bomber on steroids”: unlike a suicide bomber, an amateur drone “can easily penetrate security and threaten otherwise safe areas (e.g., the Green Zone) or reach crowded public places like sports stadiums.” — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 304

Categorization

• XREF: Directly connects to the reader’s interest in the dissolution of the war/peace boundary and the emergence of a new kind of combatant. — connects to: Drones designed for foreign wars await domestic use unless blocked — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 641; A few thousand dollars of gear can crash a GPS-guided drone — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 299; amateur drones cost a few hundred dollars and can produce striking films — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 303
• QUESTION: Worth chasing: how have amateur drones since been weaponized by non-state actors in later conflicts, validating Miasnikov’s 2000s-era forecast?
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 304

Related

• amateur drones cost a few hundred dollars and can produce striking films (similarity 0.86)
• Drones designed for foreign wars await domestic use unless blocked (similarity 0.86)
• Domestic drone policing will make citizens potential targets (similarity 0.84)
• Drones transformed from surveillance eyes into weapons almost by chance. (similarity 0.82)
• Armed drones reshape sovereignty over a state’s own subjects, not just enemies (similarity 0.82)
• The drone reconciles liberal security statehood with unrestricted waging of war. (similarity 0.81)
• The drone resolved a centuries-old contradiction in the theory of state sovereignty over war (similarity 0.80)
• Drone warfare pits unburdened machines against bodies bound by physical limits. (similarity 0.80)
• A few thousand dollars of gear can crash a GPS-guided drone (similarity 0.80)
• Drone use lowers the threshold so violence becomes the default foreign policy option. (similarity 0.80)
• Drones evolved from surveillance eyes into lethal hunter-killer weapons. (similarity 0.80)
• Drones add the remote control’s range to the weapon’s range. (similarity 0.80)
• Drones multiplied ballistic reach by adding remote-control distance to weapon range (similarity 0.79)
• The armed drone resolves a centuries-old tension in political sovereignty. (similarity 0.79)
• Eliminating reciprocal exposure to violence makes drones look like cowardly weapons. (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• Drones designed for foreign wars await domestic use unless blocked #expands (0.60) — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 641