The C-UAV Problem

Date​

 ​

Name of Organisation/​

Individual​

Nature of Threat​

Preparation​

Level​

 ​

Support​

Base​

 ​

Source of​

Information​

1995​

 ​

Aum Shinrikyo, the Japanese Terrorist Group​

 ​

Attacked the Tokyo subway​

 ​

Planned to use remote-control​

helicopters to spray sarin gas​

(dangerous chemicals from air)​

Japanese​

Terrorist​

Group​

 ​

Literature available​

on this subject [Mahan&Griset, 2009]​

2001​

Osama bin Laden​

Planned to kill George W. Bush and other heads of state​

at the G-8 Summit in Genoa, Italy​

Considered using remote-control​

airplanes packed with explosives​

 ​

Al-Qaeda​

Intelligence inputs [Gibs, 2009]​

June, 2002​

Al-Qaeda​

Planned to attack passenger aircraft​

Considered using model airplanes​

Al-Qaeda ​

Reuters News Agency [Reuters, 2002]​

August, 2002​

Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia or​

FARC​

Exact target not known​

Possession of nine remote-controlled unmanned aircraft​

 ​

Colombian Army Unit [EFE, 2009]​

December,​

2002​

Palestinian​

Terrorist Group​

Attacked built-up Israeli​

area​

Model planes for conversion into​

miniature air bombers with​

explosive payloads ​

 ​

Counter terror​

Report [DEPKA, 2009]​

November,​

2003​

A British National​

held at Camp Delta,​

Guantanamo Bay,Cuba​

Attack the House of Commons​

Acquire a drone to attack with​

Anthrax​

Al-Qaeda​

London Independent​

Newspaper​

[Gormley, 2004]​