Posted on 10/19/2024 5:41:22 AM PDT by MtnClimber
If you think you’re disgusted with our military and political “leaders,” you aren’t nearly disgusted enough. It turns out the Chinese balloon overflight of some of our most sensitive military installations was only the tip of what appears to be a planet-sized iceberg:
For several nights, military personnel had reported a mysterious breach of restricted airspace over a stretch of land that has one of the largest concentrations of national-security facilities in the U.S. The show usually starts 45 minutes to an hour after sunset, another senior leader told [USAF General Mark] Kelly.
The first drone arrived shortly. Kelly, a career fighter pilot, estimated it was roughly 20 feet long and flying at more than 100 miles an hour, at an altitude of roughly 3,000 to 4,000 feet. Other drones followed, one by one, sounding in the distance like a parade of lawn mowers.
The drones headed south, across Chesapeake Bay, toward Norfolk, Va., and over an area that includes the home base for the Navy’s SEAL Team Six and Naval Station Norfolk, the world’s largest naval port.
Drones of that size with those speed and altitude capabilities aren’t for sale at the local WalMart. The article doesn’t say, but that kind of performance isn’t possible or practical with batteries, so the drones—“a parade of lawn mowers”-- were certainly fueled and propeller driven. The article also doesn’t say whether the USAF made any attempt to intercept or track the drones, and at those altitudes, they would surely have been visible to radar unless they were stealthed, in which case we know they weren’t civilian, hobbyist drones, and since they were seen and heard, they weren’t stealthy.
Government tries to avoid releasing embarrassing information, unless they have no choice, as in it was going to come out anyway,
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
I am not surprised.
This was in December of last year
The British are coming. Again.
UK Labour Party Paying Staffers to Campaign for Kamala Harris
The American people and the people of the world will soon hold accountable the men in government, industry and academia who for many years have been making stupid decisions about autonomous weapons.
LFI is NOT in Restricted Airspace, it is in an MOA and ANYONE can fly through or over whenever they want. WHY ARE THEY LYING about this. Look it up and you will see it is NOT RESTRICTED AIRSPACE. You can fly over if above 3000AGL.
BUT........is the military following all DEI guidelines. That is what is important.
Flying at these altitudes they would be a threat to aviation so where is the FAA? My son flys and races drones and is restricted to 400ft. These drones are the size of a Cessna and one would think have to be licensed again where is the FAA? Given their size and number these drones wouldn’t be launched from some backyard or our of the trunk of a Toyota...why aren’t police, FBI and military forces tracking them to their origin? Just like the Chinese spy balloon, Biden has compromised US security by allowing this.
Yup. No Drone flying permitted at airports, 195 foot altitude limit near airports, and 400 feet limit everywhere else.
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