The widespread growth of drone technology in future could see unmanned aircraft vulnerable to being hijacked and used as weapons against other airspace users or targets on the ground.
According to a new blueprint detailing Europe’s vision for remotely piloted aircraft systems (RPAS), terrorists could even develop their own drones to crash into specific targets or jam or spoof the GPS signals of other RPAS causing serious hazards to air safety.
European authorities fear this could be achieved by any means like physical attacks such as destroying ground stations or targeting the remote pilot, electronic attacks such as jamming or spoofing data links or satellite navigation systems or even cyber-attacks through hacking the web, spoofing, and mounting cyber-attack on specific information networks.
By: Aimee Turner | June 25, 2013 | Air Traffic Management
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