Binghi
While you are researching UAV go back half a century exactly to pre-GPS and the Malkara. While Airbus talk of fly by wire, the Malkara most certainly was an earlier derivative.
You might also like to research payloads for UAV, then the chance of actually purchasing one from the arms dealers, and compare to the availability and payload of a Bonanza or GA8 flown by a suicide pilot
james michael, apparently I have failed to explain the scenario correctly.
I used the term
UAV to describe a small unmanned flying device that can carry a payload cheaply. The use of the term
Buzz Bomb is to relate the scenario to a real terrorist event that actualy happened, and that involved multiple flying bombs designed to terrorise the civy population. This scenario has happened before - just with-out the acuracy of GPS. Imagine what Hitlers Buzz Bombs could have done with a 30 metre delivery accuracy.
The
GPS guided Terrorist Buzz Bomb (GPS Buzz Bomb) used in the scenario would
not have any off the shelf aircraft components in its construction. Apart from the first prototype, it would be a very cheap to make device, probably less then a grand, and would use components in its manufacture that would not arouse any suspision at the time of purchase.
For example,
Jabawocky used an alternate guidance system based on inertial nav - If an idividual walked into an airport avionics shop and ordered a dozen, or even hundreds of inertia nav systems do you think there would be no questions ??? on the other hand if an individual just bought one GPS at a time, ...no questions asked, and no identifiers for the security people.
(obviously the GPS will need to be modified)
Propulsion system - the GPS Buzz Bomb would likely have a wing span of six to 10 feet, so a single cylinder honda engine with a home made prop would suffice... efficient, who cares, its only flying the once.
Payload - The IEDs make a big bang for a small package - a dozen GPS Buzz Bombs turning up all within the GPS 30 metre delivery zone would cause more then a little concern
james michael, the alternate operating systems you described are expensive, require an operater for each device to the target, and have multiple tracable systems of operation and device purchase.
GPS Buzz Bombs on the other hand, will be launched off shore, need few people involved in their operation, and are set and foreget ... and where were they launched from....???