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That’s not the point. The cost of assassinations on this level is in the prep work.

It takes very large amounts of money, skill and time to develop and run an intelligence network capable of pulling something like this off.

As counter intuitive as it seems these organizations are extremely risk averse because to them risks means years of work down the drain, opportunities lost and often for good and quite likely dead assets and or agents.

A $200 or even a $2000 drone doesn’t minimizes these risks it introduces additional ones.

Killing someone in a hail of bullets is easy and reliable, using a toy with a small explosive attached to it isn’t.

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I'm not talking about coordinated organizational assassinations. I am talking about lone wolf extremists that want to murder someone who maybe isn't even that high profile in the national stage. I could rig up something like this in a single day and could probably practice flying casually in the evenings to become proficient enough. It's a really low barrier of entry for anyone technically savvy and violent enough

Disclaimer: all hypotheticals, I don't advocate violence, I would never do this even for hypothetical purposes

A gun has even a lower barrier of entry if you want to kill someone, and kitchen knives even lower.

Small drones can’t cary a lot of payload getting your hands on high explosives that would actually do enough damage isn’t easy, rigging this up in a safe manner isn’t as easy as you think either.

Like I’m not saying you should try to do this to prove a point but you have much higher chances of blowing yourself up or even more likely be arrested prior than you think.

Use a remote control drone airship and drop 25-50 guidable mini bombs to hit the target in a dispersion pattern with a concentrated center. Small radar footprint, quiet operation, large destruction area.

Have backup gunman to mop up if needed, likely same pointing illuminator at target.

Not what happened but easy enough.

I don’t think you realize just how ridiculous what you proposing is...

Might as well call a B-52 to carpet bomb the place.

You aren’t getting an airship and a few dozens of drones into a country like Iran.

Nonsense, that plan worked perfectly in Call of Duty 4.

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