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Originally Posted by djlnc

So a drone with an explosive payload is launched a mile away from a packed football stadium. In a couple minutes it will arrive at its target. What's your defense?

With current consumer grade drones this scenario is more like 10 miles with a 1 lb explosive payload with automated triggering, no operator interaction (remote turned off) for flight and delivery, a false home point broadcasting (to make point of origin impossible to track), and an approach speed of up to 80 kph or better. If one is up to nefarious means then legal limits such as 400 ft max altitude can be thrown out as well, commercially available consumer grade drones can easily reach altitudes of 10,000 ft. There are few more wrinkles that can be added to the scenario that could make it more devastating without work that I'll not discuss here.

I'm a technology junkie with an OCD streak that spend a decade in the security industry doing vulnerability assessments, so yes, I have thought this through and even done proof of concept testing. This is a viable concern if someone is so inclined to understand the technology and it scares the heck out of me. Yes there is evolving anti-drone technology but like most similar technology it is reactive and rarely proactive.

As far as the current rash of sightings go, I've watched dozens of the videos of these "sightings" and every single one was obvious to me to be manned aircraft or other explainable objects. Don't forget, we are talking about New Jersey (I've family there and have lived there for several years).