A modified commercial drone may have been responsible for an attempted attack on a Pennsylvania power substation last year, the first reported case of a drone assault on the United States' energy infrastructure.
Authorities believe a DJI Mavic 2 drone with a thick copper wire tethered to it found in June 2020 was likely intended to disrupt operations 'by creating a short circuit to cause damage to transformers or distribution lines,' according to a joint intelligence bulletin from the FBI, the Department of Homeland Security, and the National Counterterrorism Center released October 28.
Who would have known that such a small invention is capable of wreaking that much havoc.
People need to step up their drone game.
While this is the first attempt on an energy utility reported by federal authorities, a swarm of five or six large drones flew in a restricted area at Palo Verde Nuclear Generating Station in Tonopah, Arizona, two nights in a row in September 2019, David Hambling, author of Swarm Troopers: How Small Drones Will Conquer the World, reported in a 2020 Forbes article.
Im not sure a lot of people knew about that either.
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