Originally Posted by
gums
Salute!
You guys talking 'bout an air attack?
I would be more concerned with well executed attack on our electrical grid with drones. You know, like the bad guys did in Arabia over the weekend.
Gums sends...
Indeed.
A couple of dozen drones like the "Quasef-1" (see
Yemen.....2 ) impacting on switching yards would knock any first world nation's grid down. The chances of the operators being caught would be very small.
For nearly as good, but much cheaper, effect you need a few guys with offroad-capable motorbikes, wire-cutters and a backpack full of simple bombs with timers. Most high-voltage transmission line towers in rural or remote areas have at most a barbed wire fence protecting them, so it would be relatively easy for a motivated individual to knock down half a dozen towers in one night.