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
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