Alarm as US far-right extremists eye drones for use in domestic attacks
Source: The Guardian
Sat 30 Aug 2025 08.00 EDT
Last modified on Sat 30 Aug 2025 16.24 EDT
Taking their cues from modern warfare, the far-right American terrorist movement sees off-the-shelf or home-built first-person viewer (FPV) drones as a critical weapon in their own future war against the US government, which has American authorities on edge.
And theres ample reasons for those fears: in the open and closed online spaces where far-right extremists congregate, talk is commonplace of how these cheap drones are revolutionizing current wars and will be the critical tools of a so-called second civil war.
The use of FPV drones in the war between Russia and Ukraine, the use of drones by terrorist groups such as Isis, and the use of drones by violent criminal groups, such as drug cartels, give examples that domestic extremists may seek to emulate or learn from, said Joshua Fisher-Birch, a professional analyst who has tracked far-right extremists of every ilk, for close to a decade.
Groups or individuals could potentially use commercial or home-made drones for reconnaissance purposes or in an offensive capacity.
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/aug/30/us-far-right-extremists-drones

msongs
(72,406 posts)BumRushDaShow
(160,177 posts)and when the "consumer" little ones were let loose in the mid-2000s and I still lived in a hi-rise, I made sure I had double drapes across my windows and balcony doors.
stopdiggin
(14,404 posts)There is very little in the way of defense against .... And an absolute multitude of malevolent uses -. (limited really only by the imagination ..)
But - despite a plethora of common sense concerns, explanation and warnings - our elected officials chose to shrug their shoulders ... And here we are ... The moron down the street that you wouldn't trust to watch a hamster ...
MayReasonRule
(3,780 posts)The American populace continues to demonstrate enormous amounts of restraint in the face of the current Nazi onslaught.
May reason's rule ultimately restore the freedoms that delusion's rule has destroyed.
PSPS
(14,923 posts)Baitball Blogger
(50,911 posts)So, they don't regulate guns in this country. How about armed drones?
eppur_se_muova
(40,010 posts)BadgerMom
(3,318 posts)I wish I felt I was way off the mark, an alarmist. Its the stuff of nightmares, but I see it coming. Just ask Yarvin, Thiel and their ilk. Humanism is to be eradicated along with empathy and compassion. We should fight as though as our lives depend on it because they do.
thought crime
(787 posts)Both Curtis Yarvin and Peter Thiel are evil psychopaths who should only exist in Batman comic-books. But here they are, bringing their absurd fantasies to our lives.
Old Crank
(6,220 posts)it will be protected under the 2nd amendment......
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