Weaponized Drone Threats: Extremist, Terrorist, and Cartel Overview and Response Training

Lt.Col. Matt Begert, USMC (Ret) and Dr. Robert J. Bunker provided training to US law enforcement, probation, and other personnel at the Public Safety Education Center, Butler Tech Liberty Campus, Liberty Township, Ohio on 20 August 2025.

The Weaponized Drone Threats/Response training is a proactive eight-hour course designed to train participants in preparation for the emerging and very real threat of weaponized drone use domestically with the United States. Weaponized drone use has proliferated over the past two decades and with such systems increasingly in the arsenals of terrorist (and extremist) organizations as well as criminal groups (cartels). These deadly devices are also appearing on conventional battlefields such as in Ukraine. Plots and minor incidents have taken place domestically related to these systems with ongoing investigations taking place, however, no major incident (resulting in deaths and/or infrastructure destruction) has to date transpired. The course training is provided via a red team (opposing force; threats) and blue team (allied force; response) perspective by counterterrorism experts. Students are trained by means of classroom power point lectures, short videos/video clips, questions, and answers (Q&A), and short discussion sessions and will have access to PDFs of the course lecture material for retention purposes.

For more information on this and other LE/NG/DHS/MIL training courses contact C/O (Counter-OPFOR) Futures at: contact@cofutures.net