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Tuesday, September 02, 2025

Experts say extremists openly talking of how home-built drones will be critical tool in so-called second civil war

Taking their cues from modern warfare, the far-right American terrorist movement sees off-the-shelf or home-built first-person viewer (FPV) drones as a critical weapon in their own future war against the US government, which has American authorities on edge.

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And there's ample reasons for those fears: in the open and closed online spaces where far-right extremists congregate, talk is commonplace of how these cheap drones are revolutionizing current wars and will be the critical tools of a so-called second civil war.

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"Pretty decent study on how [unmanned aerial systems] are being utilized by cartels, some good insights can be found here," posted one popular neo-Nazi account on Telegram, attaching a military pamphlet discussing drone warfare to its followers.

"If you want to know what a low-intensity conflict, insurgency, or whatever term we're using this decade would look like, just look south."

Multiple sources told the Guardian that the FBI has major concerns about the accelerationist neo-Nazi sect on the far right " one calling for an insurgency against the US government " and other ultra-violent actors in the same ideological space, eyeing the use of FPV drones for domestic attacks."

much more at the link including: "The future is cheap, 3D-printed drones with a [high-explosive] round zip tied to it."

#1 | Posted by Corky at 2025-09-02 05:11 PM | Reply

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