DHS-FBI Bulletin: Radio Controlled Model Aircraft as Possible IED Delivery Platforms

[The Straight Story]

DHS-FBI Bulletin: Radio Controlled Model Aircraft as Possible IED Delivery Platforms

Key Findings

Terrorist organizations have demonstrated continued interest in using radio-controlled model aircraft (RCMA) equipped with explosives to conduct attacks.
The toy and hobby industries provide an array of inexpensive RCMA that terrorists could adapt for use in attacks.
FBI and DHS have no current, credible intelligence indicating terrorist intent to use this delivery tactic in the Homeland.

Terrorist Use of Radio-Controlled Model Aircraft

RCMA are readily available and inexpensive platforms that terrorists could modify for use in attacks by adding explosive payloads.

In mid-2005, US media reported that a Hizballah fighter apparently tried, but failed, to build a rudimentary RCMA packed with explosives.
During an August 2002 raid on a Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) drug-processing facility, Colombian Government forces recovered several RCMA that the rebels intended to equip with explosives. The rebels already had outfitted one RCMA with a one-kilogram payload of plastic explosives.

Radio-Controlled Model Aircraft Systems Readily Available

http://publicintelligence.net/ufouo-dhs-fbi-bulletin-radio-controlled-model-aircraft-as-possible-ied-delivery-platforms/

[Downwinder]

1. Put wings on a smart phone.

[Tesha]

2. Try not to think of them as "IEDs"; instead, think of them as inexpensive drones.

Voila! Now, they're legitimate weapons, just like those used
by the U.S. to kill kids!

Tesha

[PragmaticLiberal]

3. The difference is the U.S. isn't "intentionally" targeting innocent kids.

I can't say the same for terrorists...

[Tesha]

4. So you say; lately, there's been some evidence to the contrary.

Of course, it depends on just who you consider "innocent"
and who you consider "guilty", and just how guilty one
must be and what judicial process must adjudicate that
guilt before we perform the drone-bases execution.

Tesha

[originalpckelly]

5. Oh yay, now they can fuck that up too.

[Blue_Tires]

6. who would ever destroy one of these works of art

much less use them in the name of terror??

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=52CVrcCydig&feature=related

("Dear Santa...")

[Fumesucker]

8. It's so common it has a slang term.. Re-kitting..

http://www.flyrc.com/top-10-definitions-you-should-know-581.html

Crash: A simple method of seeing inside a model airplane. Also, Synonym for "re-kitting" a model.

[backscatter712]

7. EVERYBODY PANIC!!! n/t