Deeply Disturbing News of a [Failed] Drone
Attack on our Electrical Grid
Independent Sentinel,
by
M. Dowling
Original Article
Posted By: mc squared,
11/8/2021 12:26:04 PM
The U.S. electrical grid is ever more vulnerable to a devastating drone attack, according to a chilling joint report released by the FBI, the National Counterterrorism Center, and the Department of Homeland Security. The federal law enforcement bulletin Oct. 28, obtained by ABC News, said a modified drone that crashed near a Pennsylvania power substation in July 2020 was designed to disrupt the electrical grid, IB Times reported. The drone was found atop a building and is the first known drone attack. The July 2020 incident did not lead to any disruptions, but officials believe a drone was likely being used to try to deliberately damage U.S. infrastructure.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
Sandpiper 11/8/2021 12:42:17 PM (No. 971397)
I think it’s just a matter of time before we have an attack of some sort. Then our troops with their multiple choices of pronouns will rise up to our defense!
We’re toast.
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Disrupting a switchyard with a drone is child's play. We looked at this years ago when I still worked for the power industry, and we determined that anyone with a basic knowledge of how a switchyard - especially one at the power plant outflow itself, could probably knock out distribution for a large number of customers and in some cases trip the unit off itself.
We submitted a number of proposals for physical hardening of assets against drones and other intrusions, but nothing ever went past that stage. I am no longer in that industry so I have no idea if any of it ever got taken seriously at all.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Catherine 11/8/2021 12:42:46 PM (No. 971399)
Attack on our electrical grid is the least of our problems. With the troubled military we now have, a handful of Eagle Scouts could take us over. We basically have no defenses. We have sworn enemies of this country being flown in and scattered around the country in groups. Now just why would someone do that to us and why would our so called president, congress idiots and senators allow that? It's almost like we've been sold out.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Anti_democRAT 11/8/2021 12:52:02 PM (No. 971412)
FBI is no longer a credible source.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Birddog 11/8/2021 12:54:36 PM (No. 971416)
Years ago I saw a study where something as simple as a Kite or Balloons with a trailing copper wire could be used to shut down transmission lines, now drones make it even easier.(don't have to rely upon the vagaries of wind)
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
DVC 11/8/2021 1:04:40 PM (No. 971438)
One drone is not going to make a significant impact on our power grid longer than minutes or hours, at most.
News media freakout, ignorance and intentional exaggeration.
We have had MASSIVE ice storms taking out dozens of substations, with bright flashes in the night sky as transformers arced and burned, and tens of thousands of trees dropped across lines over hundreds of square miles.....and power back on in few days, to a week.
Sorry, not going to get my BP up on this silly kids toy crap.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
mc squared 11/8/2021 3:24:22 PM (No. 971592)
Have you ever seen large drones? Not kid's toys with a camera, but giant like Amazon uses to deliver packages. They claim 5 pounds. I'm sure they could drop, or fly into, a large distribution center with 5 pounds of C4. How many affected - I don't know.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
DVC 11/8/2021 3:38:02 PM (No. 971600)
Still a few hours or a day outage, #7, even if they managed to seriously damage a transformer. The systems really are a lot more resilient and repairable than most folks think.
The "one butterfly could trip the whole damned grid" kind of stories are great for fiction....but not much reality. "The Grid" is designed to break itself apart into sub grids if there are serious problems, and keep a short from propagating upstream.
IMO, if you wanted to make the most impact.....taking down a couple of the large cross-state transmission towers would be a way. I don't want to give anyone any ideas, but there are towers far from any building and a skilled person could probably cause some mayhem there. Even then, I'd bet that things would be back up and running in a far shorter time than most would guess.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Bur Oak 11/8/2021 4:19:25 PM (No. 971638)
A similar thing was done during WWII using balloons trailing wires.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
DVC 11/8/2021 6:11:06 PM (No. 971695)
We actually have specialty cruise missile warhead which contains thousands of tiny spools of carbon fiber strands wound on them. In detonation, these huge numbers of spools are ejected high above a major electrical substation, and will unwind this fine conductive carbon fibers in long strands which blow in the wind. They can short out power lines.
But....the point is to take suddenly down a power grid during a bombing attack to make the enemy lose power to command and control systems and radar and other weapons systems.
As far as attacking civil infrastructure.....yes, it would cause fuses and circuit breakers to pop, and would take a few hours to clear off these fine fibers and reset the circuit breakers, and such. Permanent damage? Little or none. Inconvenience....sure. I'd hate to be having heart surgery or something if this happened, although most hospitals are supposed to have backup generators....not sure how long they take to cut in.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
dickiedeeb 11/8/2021 6:55:53 PM (No. 971732)
Preparing the herd for one of their methods to derail the 2022 elections China is oppositon not the enemy The enemy is within They will not give up power If they cared anything about cratered approval ratings they would have different policies Get ready for the dark winter
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
judy 11/9/2021 1:49:46 AM (No. 971919)
They spend all their time investigating Trump, Flynn, Stone.....
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