Billionaires are so worried about us tracking their private jets, as if this isn't just a minor way to shame them for how much fuel they're burning. They act like The Haters are out here with a bunch of surface-to-air missiles ready to shoot their Gulfstream G650, callsign N628TS, currently parked at Hamad International Airport, in Doha, Qatar, out of the sky.
Which is ridiculous. Do you know how hard it is to get or build surface to air missiles? They're not exactly sold on Amazon, and even a basic heat-seeker guidance system is difficult to build because the thermal cameras used are very restricted in their civilian versions.
Not to mention the fact that it's the kind of attack that only works once, before every billionaire is scared off using their private jets. So you've got to be sure it'll work. Meaning you need to do a lot of testing. Rockets are expensive and difficult to reuse, so that costs a ton of money. Who can afford to launch a bunch of prototype surface to air missiles against drone planes? Not me, that's for sure. And unless you're planning to fight a full in war with these things, anyone with enough money to develop one is probably gonna get more bang for their buck by just hiring some assassins. I don't know how much it costs to have one rich guy shot, but I bet it's way less than what developing a DIY heat-seeker would cost.
But yeah. The real "danger" to ElMu and his like is that people will mock them online because it's publicly known that after talking about "staying at the Twitter HQ until the organization is fixed", he flew off to London and then Qatar. Maybe he'll be back for Monday? Either way, that's a lot of jet fuel.
