Why isn’t drone striking more common for terrorism surely much more damage could be done just strapping bombs or grenades to fpv drones and flying them into people or buildings, why has it not happened yet?
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It happens, but they’re pretty localized and mostly lie on that rough border between war and terrorism (not talking Ukraine). Lebanon and Yemen have seen a lot of drone attacks as part of ongoing conflicts, including what some considered terrorist strikes into other nations as an explicit attempt to convince others to stay out of their conflict or strike infrastructure their enemies use.
The issue is mostly one of attack scale. Most of the drones are off-the-shelf models that are repurposed for something they’re not intended to do. So their reliability isn’t really good. A single drone is both easy to deal with and relatively easy to stop. Not only that but people have been creating drone defenses for entirely not-terrorism-related reasons for over a decade now. So instead they use dozens or hundreds of drones at a time working in tandem, and that take it from a one-person operation to a whole team.
Most terrorists cell-based organizations don’t have the kind of large scale infrastructure to pull off that kind of thing, which is why it’s mostly groups with large support structures.
Someone carrying a large bomb into an area actually takes a lot less manpower and infrastructure than sending a dozen drones.
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