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July 18, 2025 - Health Ranger - Mike Adams
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Hybrid DRONE WARFARE makes terrorism and sabotage attacks much easier to carry out
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So we recently saw two examples of hybrid drone warfare carried out.
One against Iran.
And this was where Israel, using this same kind of blueprint of sort of cargo trucks with containers that would open up and launch drones, they were attacking Iran's ballistic missile launchers.
And this happened in June.
And we saw another example, actually an earlier example in Russia, where Ukraine had managed to put some loads on some trucks and convince some Russian truck drivers to drive these truckloads and park them next to these airfields.
And then remotely, Ukraine, and no doubt they worked with MI6 on this, they were able to open up the top of the containers and they launched all these drones out of the containers.
And then the drones attacked the airfields and did some amount of damage, destroying some older strategic bombers, TU-95s.
Some of them were just there for spare parts.
Some of them did not have engines, etc.
But the point is, this was a demonstration of a new kind of hybrid warfare that I believe can be used against the United States, obviously.
So here's the thing.
In order to attack Russian airfields, think about it, Ukraine did not have to launch a missile from Ukraine, a missile that could be taken out by an air defense system.
And for Israel to attack the ballistic missile launchers in Iran, they did not have to fire a missile from Israel.
All they had to do was get a cargo truck close enough to where the drones could carry out the rest.
So if you think that America is protected by oceans and that countries that are at war with the United States, that they can't really reach us because their missiles don't fly far enough, such as Iran, let's say.
Well, in reality, all they need to do is to be able to get cargo trucks close enough to where they can open up and launch a bunch of drones.
And those drones may have explosives or they may have chemical agents or biological agents or even dirty bomb agents.
I'm going to talk about that one specifically.
And they may detonate over maybe a power grid substation or a populated area, a city in the United States.
So drones have changed the nature of warfare so dramatically that I think many people have not yet really caught up to this.
And drones are also, as you'll see soon, probably, they're changing the nature of terrorism.
So acts of terror can easily be carried out with drones now, even though many years ago, it would have been very, very difficult for those similar acts or acts with similar effects to have been carried out.
So one of the things that you need to know about this is that today's off-the-shelf drones are very, very capable.
I mean, many of those drones that you can buy right now online have payload capacities of like 10 kilograms.
They have range capabilities of something like 30 to 40 kilometers.
And they can be pre-programmed to go to specific GPS coordinates.
And you can buy add-on things that would do something like, you know, disperse an agent or drop a grenade or other kinds of things, little actuators.
So think about this.
Right now, cloud seeding operations, for example, are carried out using drones.
You fly a couple of drones up into the sky and you disperse a seeding agent.
And as we recently learned, one pound of seeding agent can produce 40 million pounds of rainfall.
That's, I mean, wow.
That also tells you that, of course, weather can be weaponized as an act of terrorism under certain conditions.
And many of us believe that weather is being weaponized right now.
This is why we're seeing so many floods all of a sudden in different places across the United States.
But far beyond that, imagine the potential of a nefarious actor using a drone to either drop explosives on a power grid substation or using a drone to, let's say, disperse a chemical agent over a populated area.
I mean, they're already dispersing cloud seeding agents in the sky, so clearly that technology exists and it isn't, frankly, it's probably not that difficult.
I've never worked with drones that have any kind of a, like an aerosolizing mechanism, but I would imagine it's not that difficult.
It takes a little bit of air pressure and a nozzle.
I mean, you know, come on.
You do that at home in your garden, spraying neem oil on your plants.
You know, you pump your sprayer and it's aerosolized.
Okay, so that's easy.
The real question is, how easy is it for a terrorist to load up dirty bomb radioactive material and blow it up over the sky of a city, thereby causing widespread wind dispersion of radioactive particles or radioactive dust?
See, to me, that stands as a very high percentage event that seems to be very likely to happen at some point.
And the drone could be launched from miles away and then flown right over the target zone.
And the terror group doing this, it wouldn't even need much in the way of funding.
They could probably just steal the dirty bomb material from a medical equipment supply company or something, or they could intercept a shipment of some X-ray imaging equipment or whatever, dental X-ray machines.
I don't know.
I mean, all these radioisotopes exist in medical imaging equipment, and occasionally they go missing, you know?
So somebody who was determined and even decently well-funded could probably get their hands on some kind of like strontium-91 or what, I don't know what isotopes they would use.
They'd probably irradiate themselves in the process, by the way, but maybe they don't care.
And they'd get it on a drone, they'd fly it over, just walk out to the city park or something, you know, launch a drone, and then just fly it over the city and press a button and it detonates.
And then now the winds spread it.
So just by watching the prevailing winds, they would know the dispersion pattern that they would get.
And it's, you know, it's not that that dirty bomb would directly kill so many people.
That's not where the damage comes from.
It probably wouldn't kill anybody except the person who put it together.
But it would render a large area uninhabitable for some period of time during a radiological decontamination effort.
And there's a psychological panic that comes with radioactive material for lots of reasons.
I mean, this is like classic terrorism.
It's designed to terrorize people, to scare people.
People are very much afraid of radioactive material for lots of reasons.
The biggest reason being that they don't understand it.
The typical American is not really good at science, didn't really pay attention in school, etc.
They don't understand half-lives.
They don't understand ionizing radiation versus non-ionizing.
They don't understand gamma rays, whatever.
So in the movies, radioactive material is always depicted as something that glows green.
And if you just, if you're anywhere near it, you're dead.
Now, that's nonsense, actually.
But that's the way Hollywood depicts it.
In the same way that somebody that's shot with a shotgun is lifted off the floor and blasted back 20 feet through the air and then hits the wall.
That's Hollywood.
Hollywood ballistics.
And Hollywood does the same thing with radioactive material, whenever it's in the scripts.
Radiation is like the worst possible thing, and it's going to kill you instantly.
So people will freak out.
The minute the news says, oh my God, there's a radiation cloud over LA or whatever, everybody's going to lose their minds.
You have to evacuate this whole area.
People will go insane.
That's the terrorism.
And then you'll have the economic consequences of the complete shutdown of that portion of the city, let's say, with all the losses of, you know, retail losses and business operations losses.
And I mean, if they hit a port or something like this, then you lose, obviously, the functioning of the port.
And then you've got to bring in all the experts at assessment and decontamination.
And then the decontamination process itself can take a long time.
And during all of this, you're losing economic productivity.
People are freaking out.
Everybody's showing up at the hospital thinking they have radiation poisoning.
And maybe some people do, but a lot of people will just sort of make it real.
They'll just show up.
I feel sick, Doc.
Am I dying?
Is my skin going to fall off?
And they're like, no, you had some bad pizza or something, you know.
But my point here is that it's obviously relatively easy today for a terror actor group to carry this out.
And if you want a demonstration of this, just look at COVID.
The U.S. government probably dropped toxic particles on New York City and then called it COVID.
I mean, that's probably what happened.
But that's a different podcast.
The government knows how easy this is.
I mean, you know, the U.S. government ran its own operations, Operation Sea Spray, 1950, testing the dispersion of deadly bacteria over the city of San Francisco, and they killed people.
Oops.
They found out how quickly they can spread it.
So the government's been running these experiments for a long time, and terrorists have obviously figured this out as well.
But now you have to ask the question, what about micronukes?
Can micronuclear warheads be lifted into the air above cities and detonated just with a drone?
And the answer clearly is yes.
So you may know that there are artillery shells that are nuclear, 155 millimeter diameter artillery shells, you know, 155s.
And they have very low yields, like, I think, less than a kiloton, which is low for a nuke.
And these exist.
They're in the possession of the U.S. Army.
They could launch low-yield nuclear artillery shells in any land war.
It hasn't happened yet, to my knowledge, but it could happen.
Well, what if a terrorist were to get a hold of one of those rounds?
Could they have a drone, theoretically, lift that round into the air and fly it above a city and detonate it there?
And I'm sure the military has some secure methods, like you have to type in a code and it's a super secret code or something, you would think.
I mean, I don't know how nuclear artillery works, but it's probably not just that anybody can just grab around and use it.
It's probably got some security mechanisms, right?
You would think.
So it's probably not an easy thing to do.
But just suppose maybe there's somebody in the military that has access to those codes and wants to carry out this act of terrorism.
Or somebody's paid off or somebody's blackmailed or somebody's coerced into this and they've got the access.
Could they load up an artillery round on a drone and fly it over a city and detonate it?
And I think the answer is yes.
And so what would a one kiloton explosion do over a U.S. city?
Well, frankly, it wouldn't do a lot of damage.
Remember that Hiroshima and Nagasaki were in the 15, 16 kiloton range, something like that, which is also considered very small by today's standards.
But if you were to take, let's say, 1 15th of that and have a 1 kiloton nuclear detonation over a city, you know, physically it wouldn't do that much, but psychologically, it would be, oh, America just got nuked.
Even though, again, the number of people dying from that event would be shockingly low.
Very few buildings would even be damaged, except maybe the ones right next to the drone, you know?
I mean, a one kiloton explosion, I'm not trying to say it's a small thing, but in the air over a city, it is kind of a small thing.
I mean, look, for starters, you do know that every airburst nuclear weapon expends half of its energy up, right?
I mean, only half the yield goes down to the ground.
The other half goes up into the air.
So you have a one kiloton nuke.
It's only half a kiloton coming down.
And a very small portion of that goes straight down with a very high impact.
The rest of it's going at angles, you know.
So think of a rapidly expanding sphere of energy.
That entire sphere is one kiloton equivalent of TNT.
So most of it is just harmlessly dissipated into the air.
Now, would it make a loud boom?
Yeah, absolutely.
Big boom.
Would it shatter a bunch of windows?
Absolutely.
Sure.
Might shatter windows on buildings for half a mile radius.
I don't know.
I'm just guessing.
But is it going to destroy all those concrete buildings?
No.
No.
Not unless it's detonated right next to one.
But nevertheless, you can see my point here, that drones enable terrorists to carry out hybrid attacks now that were unthinkable before.
And I'm not anti-drone, just for the record.
I think drones are great.
I love the idea that we can buy drones and we can fly around and do drone racing.
And with a thermal camera, you can look for lost cattle and things like that.
There's a lot of agricultural uses of drones.
You can look at plant growth.
You can use infrared cameras for that.
There's agricultural uses, search and rescue uses, all kinds of uses for drones.
Perimeter security.
Inspection.
There's a lot of inspection drones that can inspect like, let's say, communication towers.
You want to fly up there and inspect the bolts on the side of a tower that's a thousand meters tall or whatever.
You don't want to climb up there.
Send a drone up there.
So drones are great.
But drones also then enable many different types of warfare attacks or terrorism attacks that were not possible before.
I'm aware of drones being used to deliver illegal weapons cargo across the U.S. southern border.
I've talked to you about this before, according to one of my sources.
There are anti-personnel landmines that have been delivered via drone across the Arizona border, you know, from Mexico, obviously.
So drones can run cargo in a way that is very, very difficult for the U.S. to interdict.
Drones are small.
I know they have a remote ID they're supposed to broadcast, but I'm pretty sure the Narco cartels have figured out how to remove all that stuff.
So they're basically just stealth drones flying around, delivering landmines and RPGs and whatever, or cocaine for that matter, right?
So drones are presenting all kinds of new risks, even for drug interdiction.
But then on the positive side, our border patrol, or customs and border protection, they can use drones to monitor the border.
So drones can be used to keep an eye on the whole border situation with automated flights and thermal camera and AI imaging in ways that humans could not do before.
So that's a very positive use of drones for national security or border security.
That's why I think, by the way, in my estimation, the drug cartels are going to end up using a lot of land-based drones, like dog bots that just walk around on the land because they're much harder to detect.
They can, I mean, they can stop and hide and they can be painted with camo or whatever.
And they don't need water.
They can take their time.
They could even have maybe solar panels on top.
They could kind of stop and recharge for a day, you know, and then move on the next day, do another 10 miles the next day, whatever.
I mean, I think land-based drones are going to be moving drugs in huge quantities, but with small decentralized units.
That's my guess.
And they're going to be very hard to detect.
So what's our defense against all of this?
Well, right now it's just knowledge.
Be aware that these things can happen and call for peace.
You know, anytime we have wars in the world, we're making more enemies.
And those enemies are then motivated to come to the U.S. and find ways to hurt us.
And drones make it easier for them to hurt us in innovative ways that are very difficult to prevent.
And a simple thing for drones to do is just drop grenades on power grid substations, things like that, and to take out a substation, start plunging America into darkness.
And that alone can cause deaths, and it can cause hospitals to go offline, and it can cause 911 emergency response services to go offline and things like that.
And that's low-tech, man.
That's very low-tech.
I mean, the drug cartels already demonstrated that capability.
They were dropping grenades on law enforcement, I'm pretty sure.
Dropping Grenades on ranchers in southern Texas.
Now, can you use a drone defensively?
Well, yeah, to some extent, you can use a drone to keep a lookout on your own property.
You do need a sort of a, I think it's called a trust license.
I've got one of those.
You need to take an online course and pass a simple test, and then you get this license number effectively from the FAA for line of sight control of a drone.
You know, you just have to understand basic rules like you can't fly over airports, dumbass.
You know, don't fly your drone over a football stadium.
I mean, yeah.
And maintain line of sight and respect the FAA alerts about restricted air sectors and things like that, right?
You can take the course, you can get a license, you can get a drone.
But to have a drone fly autonomously to do like perimeter patrol, yeah, that's a whole different level of licensing, and that's very difficult to get.
I've checked into that a little bit, but not something I'm going to do.
But I would imagine that that area of technology is going to become more mature, and maybe the licensing will get easier for like small perimeter drones to fly around your house.
Or better, yeah, there'll probably be like little robot drone dogs that'll just walk around the perimeter of your house.
And the FAA won't have any jurisdiction over that because they're not flying.
So that'll probably be the way most people go for perimeter security is like an autonomous dog drone with a thermal camera and Wi-Fi connection to report back to you if it sees something weird and to just walk around every couple of hours and then go recharge itself.
So that's probably what you'll end up having if you're going to get a security drone.
Something to think about.
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