FBI Deputy Director Chris Raia on Wednesday warned that it’s “only a matter of time” before drones that can deploy explosives are used in terrorist attacks in the United States, noting that a person “in China can control a drone over New Orleans.”
“We have seen that overseas, and it’s only a matter of time before somebody brings that type of attack, that threat vector here to the United States,” Raia told Fox News in an interview. He elaborated that he suspects that “the biggest threat right now” is drones that have a “kind of the five-yard target.”
“We have seen drones can do overseas with an explosive payload on it,” he also said, adding that such drone attacks have “not come to the United States yet.”…
FBI Official Warns of Explosive Drone Attacks Reaching US: ‘Only a Matter of Time’
