Posted on 12/11/2024 1:21:22 PM PST by Macho MAGA Man
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All true. We just might get credible info on what’s actually going on.
Remember a few years ago when dressing up like a creepy clown to try and scare people was a thing all over the US?
This sounds like a high tech version of the same thing
Most likely Chinese. However recall when that fly-infested demonic Obama creature purposely gave Iran our most advanced drone tech years ago.
If they (should) somehow turn out to be not dissimilar to what Navy Pilots have been encountering since 2013 or so off the coasts of Virginia, North Carolina and Maryland in the W-76 and W-386 warning areas. Then I have an entirely separate theory about what is actually occurring.
For what we spend on defense, if there are truly from one of our adversaries, we’re in bad shape.
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We have a generously funded Air Force and a Space Force yet cannot do anything about these drones, much less identify them.
What weapon do you purpose to shoot down an SUV sized drone skimming the ocean surface? From an inflatable boat you might have M240s those are 7.62 mm connecting with a fast skimming drone is not going to be easy. Stinger missiles at half a million each? Drones can carry IR flares to throw off stingers too. A radar guided 57 mm gun on the cruiser would work until they hit the radar horizon 8 miles away your 57 is good for half that distance with proximity rounds and gated fuses to.work in the sea clutter.
Overland?? If you splash a medium drone it’s coming down as flaming wreckage doing that over a neighborhood is going to cause fires ,casualties and public outrage. So assuming you do shoot one down over land and over populated areas how? The obvious choice is a sidewinder heat seeker, $1 million plus each and you now have shrapnel, flaming debris and flaming solid rocket fuel coming down. 20’m gatling cannon burrrrrrrr that’s 6000 rounds per min or 100 a second of hand grenade sized shells raining down every one that doesn’t hit the drone will explode on ground impact. Uh no not happening. There is self destruction rounds for the CWIS they are meant to be shot up not down and not cleared to fire in 20 mm Vulcan guns on any airframe. You could use inert rounds or AP rounds those will impact the ground with lethal force at supersonic speeds no explosions but don’t be under them if you want to live.
So what do you use once they are over land? Over the water sure splash away if you can get them before they disperse. The fact that they are swarming is a message , drones on a real attack would disperse and come in from multiple directions in waves to overwhelm AA support.
I wouldn’t shoot at them. I’d fly a drone into them, specifically targeting the props.
My money is on a drone club of a bunch of nerds getting together and flying their individual drones on the same “mission” trip.
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Those nerds must have a whole lot of money. Those aren’t $100.00 drones.
Drone on drone kamikaze action, that solves the ordinance raining down but not the wreckage these are not hobby sized drones they are jet fuel or gasoline filled and half the size of a predator drone. You still have a huge amount of flaming debris one it hits the ground heck the AI flying it might just pick a target on the ground and aim for it kamikaze style if you just hit the prop it can still nose down and ram a target. Russia has a shoulder fired anti-drone drone it launches off a shoulder fired rod with 4 props pointed backwards and a imaging IR/ low light seeker up front it goes all kamikaze right into the other drone but it’s meant for hand launched or small drones under 50 lbs it also carries a net it can throw forwards into the props of the other drone.
Point is once they are over land you cannot just splash the larger ones , in fact it’s against the law for DOD to do so only in specific national emergency or security threats could a drone be brought down and only secdef or potus can authorise it.
Soft kill is going to need to be fielded in a big way but AI eliminates the comms links you then need microwave weapons to be strong enough to fry the electronics not an easy task when you can harden the drone to EMP it becomes an arms race. Lasers are hard kill again over populated areas is going to be an issue. Lots of military bases are in the middle of high density residential areas silly that we allowed that but here we are.
“ Those nerds must have a whole lot of money. Those aren’t $100.00 drones.”
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True that. But how much do motorcycle club members spent on their bikes.
Anyhow, I was just throwing out an idea. I don’t have the slightest clue as to who owns them.
I think it’s probably DOD/defense contractor stuff.
Ah yes, the creepy clowns lurking on the edge of town. Once the locals began taking potshots at them, they melted away as if by magic. Maybe these pesky lurking drones can be similarly dissuaded. . .
Have seen similar things for years on the Eastern Shore of Maryland where I live. We used to call them the sky guys. But we are not far from Dover so we always assumed they were military. Have not seen many lately, but there used to be dozens of them in our skies at night.
Is this a “Look. Squirrel” moment? What’s going on in DC where the government is diverting our attention away.
IT’S A COOKBOOK!
Good grief its probably a fraternity prank to illustrate what a bunch of bedwetters we’ve become.
It’s possible, but I’m skeptical of it being a defense contractor. I worked for a couple. You test/fly in controlled conditions. I would expect a contractor to test in controlled airspace, usually a place like WSMR. Or if it’s an Army program, maybe at Pax River. There are lots of places to test that aren’t over civilian areas where the airspace is controlled. A civilian area is the *last* place I’d expect them to test.
Interesting take - and frighteningly plausible.
Small nuke would fit the bill - off-loaded in Jersey and on the move to DC, maybe?
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