Cheap, jam-proof drones are reshaping Colombia's conflict, as armed groups deploy models a costly military has so far struggled to stop in the field.
Defense · Security
—The shift. Armed groups in Colombia have gone from drone novices to skilled operators in barely two years.
—The escalation. An April attack used more than a dozen drones at once, a coordinated swarm rather than a lone strike.
—The weapon. Some drones are guided by thin fibre-optic cables, making them immune to the radio jamming armies rely on.
—The cost gap. Such drones can be delivered for a few hundred dollars, against the millions spent trying to counter them.
Armed groups have taken the conflict to the skies by making greater use of cheap, widely available drone technology.
Civilians left increasingly exposed as a dangerous new front opens up in the country’s decades-old conflict
Drones are being increasingly used by illegal armed groups to attack Colombia's security forces.
Esta nueva herramienta de seguridad capaz de destruirlo todo en un radio de 15 metros, estará disponible para las fuerzas armadas…
Esta nueva herramienta de seguridad capaz de destruirlo todo en un radio de 15 metros, estará disponible para las fuerzas armadas…
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