Inside is a chaotic workbench covered in logic boards, antennas, batteries, augmented reality headsets, and rotor blades. On one end of the room is a makeshift photo studio'a jet-black quadcopter drone sits on a long white sheet, waiting for its close-up. This particular workshop's Geppetto is Yvan. He grins as he shows off his creations, flittering around with a lit cigarette in his mouth, dangling ash, grabbing different models. (Yvan is a pseudonym; WIRED granted some of the people in this story anonymity due to the security risk.) Yvan holds up a mid-size drone: This model successfully hit a target from 11 kilometers away, he says, but it should be capable of traveling at least 20. He's trying different batteries and controllers to try to extend the range. He screws on a stabilizer tailpiece to a hard plastic shell'Yvan 3D-prints these himself'and holds up the assembled bomb. It's capable of carrying a 3.5-kilogram explosive payload, enough to take out a Russian tank. One big...
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