![]() ![]() As 3D printing technologies advance and become more affordable, they explain, non-state actors will be capable of producing their own deadly drones. Mark Jacobsen argued that the most dangerous insurgent operated drones will be custom-built rather than purchased “off of the shelf” and adapted from there. Hammes gave a bracing assessment on the “democratization of airpower,” discussing how technologies available to non-state groups could change the character of warfare. ![]() These conventional attacks by an unconventional force did not successfully hit their target but merit our attention as this scenario may repeat itself in the not-too distant future with unmanned aerial vehicles mounted with explosives.Īs discussed by Ulrike Franke, the booby-trapped IED that recently wounded French special operators in Syria showed that low-cost, commercially available, payload-carrying drones are now being weaponized. Houthi rebels in Yemen reportedly fired missiles at the USS Mason multiple times in recent weeks. We were recently given an early indication of how this might happen. But, drone technological advances that are already on the horizon change the situation by diversifying both the types of threats and weaponry and also places them in the hands of non-state actors.ĭefending ships worth hundreds of millions of dollars against thousand dollar drones creates a perilous economic game and changes the risk calculus of the Navy’s presence mission. Similarly, there are centuries of precedent for land-based attacks on ships. We merely have to look at attacks by Somali pirates or Al Qaeda’s attack on USS Cole for historical precedent. The idea of non-state actors attacking from the sea is not new. ![]()
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