Small Unmanned Aerial System Adversary Capabilities
Bradley Wilson; Shane Tierney; Brendan Toland; Rachel M Burns; Colby Peyton Steiner; Christopher Scott Adams; Michael Nixon; Raza Khan; Michelle D Ziegler; Jan Osburg; Ike Chang
RAND
2020
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To support U.S. Department of Homeland Security efforts to prioritize capability investments, this report examines trends in small unmanned aerial system development, the features that are likely to aid nefarious users, and how such actors could use an sUAS (or multiple systems) to conduct various types of operations-from surveilling U.S. government facilities to dispersing a chemical agent at a large public event.