Use of weaponized unmanned aerial veHiCles (uAVs) supported by gis as a groWing terrorist tHreAt

Taneski, Nenad and Caminski, Borce and Petrovski, Aleksandar (2020) Use of weaponized unmanned aerial veHiCles (uAVs) supported by gis as a groWing terrorist tHreAt. Science and society contribution of humanities and social sciences. pp. 553-567.

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Abstract

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are one of the most advanced achievements of modern technology widely used by contemporary states. They have developed as an important tool for national security and commercial industries. Although they offer immense security benefits, UAVs can also open up new threats and opportunities in conducting terrorist attacks. The increased use in both state and private sectors reduces the cost of the UAVs therefore making them easily accessible tools for terrorist organizations. The pioneering attacks conducted by Islamic State of Iraq and Syria – ISIS (2016) have highlighted the capability of terrorist organizations and individual
terrorists to deploy commercially available UAVs in order to attack their state adversaries. Even though the first ISIS UAV operations focused on conducting reconnaissance operations in Iraq and Syria, the organization continued further and started using them to attack Kurdish, Iraqi and Turkish forces. This is only an isolated case and so far these type of terrorist attacks have-not happened on the scale that can terrorize a big mass of people or cause greater civilian or military damage, However, ISIS is not the only user of UAVs. Their use by Hezbollah and alleged assassination attempt on Venezuela’s president Nicolás Maduro (2018) proved that other terrorist organizations and militant groups have also adopted the use of UAVs. They could further use weaponized UAVs an, to achieve even worst scenarios than the assassination of a country leader, in terms of possible conduct of chemical or biological attacks by home-grown terrorists on numerous public venues in contemporary states.The factors affecting the expansion of the weaponzed UAV s supported by GIS and the risk of their use as a growing terrorist threat will be examined in this paper.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	UAV, GIS, threat, terrorism, security
Subjects:	Social Sciences > Political Science
Divisions:	Military Academy
Depositing User:	Nenad Taneski
Date Deposited:	16 Sep 2021 07:44
Last Modified:	16 Sep 2021 07:44
URI:	https://eprints.ugd.edu.mk/id/eprint/28456

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