Originally Posted by
kiwi grey
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.
Try over a month and why bother letting people know you visited before a Halloween spectacular.
Like having a million $$$ Ferrari which does 0-60 in 3,2 seconds etc etc, a banana in the exhaust makes your million $$$ Ferrari go fom 0-0 in 3.2 seconds. New technology is great but the old ways to stop it work well.