2018 Caracas drone attack

3 weeks ago - Others have suggested the incident was a false flag operation designed by the government to justify repression of opposition in Venezuela. Two small drones carrying explosives were detonated while President Maduro delivered an outdoor speech, possibly in attempt to attack the president and ...

2 weeks ago - Bystanders on the ground in Venezuela captured various videos of the U.S. assault on Saturday, which was officially dubbed Operation Absolute Resolve. In multiple clips, as seen in the social media post below, distinctly terrorizing high-pitched buzzing can be clearly heard, which are then followed immediately by explosions and/or other visual or auditory signs of munitions impacting the ground, all consistent with the use of one-way attack drones.

3 weeks ago - The C.I.A. conducted a drone strike last week in Venezuela, the first known U.S. operation inside the country since the Trump administration began its pressure campaign against the government of Nicolás Maduro.

2 weeks ago - An unconfirmed drone strike on a Venezuelan port, publicly claimed by Donald Trump and later attributed by reports to U.S. intelligence, has heightened tensions with Caracas and exposed deep divisions over escalation inside and outside the country.

President Nicolás Maduro was giving a speech at a military event in Caracas when explosive-armed drones approached and detonated near the stage. The Venezuelan President's military address was being broadcast live on television.

2 weeks ago - Video footage from the night of January 3 shows dozens of kamikaze drones striking Venezuelan ground targets, knocking the country’s defenders off-guard during the ensuing raid.

3 weeks ago - The CIA reportedly conducted a drone strike on Venezuelan port facility, targeting Tren de Aragua, the first known land strike inside Venezuela as Donald Trump pressures Nicolás Maduro.

3 weeks ago - The CIA carried out a drone strike earlier this month on a port facility on the coast of Venezuela, sources familiar with the matter told CNN, marking the first known US attack on a target inside that country.

1 week ago - It’s therefore quite possible that when President Trump said, “I was able to watch it in real time, and I watched every aspect of it,” that the video link may have been supplied by one or more of the RQ-170 Wraith drones circling over the action on the ground. Another aspect of the Venezuelan operation comes from people on the ground in Caracas who reported a number of instances of “flying bombs” which fell on targets during the U.S. operation. Video clips and numerous personal accounts apparently supported the reports that prop-powered attack drones were being crashed into ground targets, followed by big explosions.

3 weeks ago - Venezuela's government is yet to respond. The explosion was caused by a drone strike carried out by the CIA, according to CNN and the New York Times, which cited sources close to the matter.

August 5, 2018 - Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro says he has survived an assassination attempt involving explosive drones. Mr Maduro was speaking at a military event in Caracas when the alleged attack occurred.

August 13, 2018 - When two drones, each equipped with a kilogram of powerful plastic explosives, were used on August 4 to attempt to assassinate Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, it may have ushered in a foreboding new era—terrorism by unmanned aircraft.

The recent drone attack on Venezuelan President Maduro highlights the real threats posed by drones and the need to implement C-UAS technology. The drone industry as outpaced regulations in the United States.

3 weeks ago - CNN and the New York Times reported late on Monday that they had confirmed the CIA had used a drone to target a “port facility” allegedly used by the Tren de Aragua street gang.

2 weeks ago - He did not confirm it happened in Venezuela. The U.S. military said it attacked a boat accused of smuggling drugs in the eastern Pacific Ocean, killing two people. The CIA was behind the drone strike at a docking area believed to have been used by Venezuelan drug cartels, according to two people familiar with details of the classified operation who requested anonymity to discuss it.

2 days ago - As of 30 December, there were no official statements from either the US or Venezuela confirming the details of any strike. CNN reported that unnamed sources said Trump was referencing a drone strike with no casualties, conducted by the CIA, with intelligence support from US military forces, on a "remote dock on the Venezuelan coast that the US government believed was being used by the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua to store drugs and move them onto boats for onward shipping".