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OK, admittedly I don't really know a thing other than what I read, and it would make sense.
BTW, yes, launches from Russian territory much closer to targets Ukrainians do too.
You wouldn't even need something that big, man.
I was in college during GWOT and part of the political science club. We had a 'games theory' session with the DHS rep in our state, where part of the class was reps for the government and part were a terrorist cell.
I was part of the latter, and our goal was 'disrupt the state' and half the people wanted a big 9-11 attack to happen. My suggestion was small teams and car bombs over the course of 3 days along the major highways in the state and intra city traffic would grind to a halt. That was what kept him up at night.
The same thing could be done at an even more effective scale with FPVs hypothetically.
Yes, but also now there are networked cameras everywhere.
Sure, pointing at streets. Your normal not super cheap FPV has a range of like a mile. Even adjacent to an urban center you could find places to launch a drone and send it to do evil shit and not be spotted.
Mostly yes and they do that. The future surely is fun. Both hitting bad people has become easier, and for bad people to go really bad has become too.
I'm starting to think Game of Thrones atmosphere of "why are they doing this crap, are they that stupid, how can a bloody duke be so naive while being described and wise and responsible, how can another bloody duke, supposedly very smart and cunning, run around ruining his own power base just to get a bit more of it, how can yet another bloody duchy known for intrigue and poison just lose its heir in a duel and not have backup paths" and so on was on spot.
The actual Middle Ages, if you read about it, were a bit more interesting, and deposed enemies were often not killed, but given replacement property someplace close to the victor's center of power, minimizing both their reasons to raise the question and their opportunities to do so with one action.
But! The actual Middle Ages didn't have quite the scale achievable now.
Interesting parallel! I'm not super versed on the middle ages/medieval history. I love the concept of learning more about it but for me finding the time to properly do so just isn't there.
I also miss like... college style lectures on those kind of topics. I should just squat some history classes at the universities by me.