Posted on 10/19/2024 5:59:48 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
U.S. Air Force Gen. Mark Kelly wasn’t sure what to make of reports that a suspicious fleet of unidentified aircraft had been flying over Langley Air Force Base on Virginia’s shoreline.
Kelly, a decorated senior commander at the base, got on a squadron rooftop to see for himself. He joined a handful of other officers responsible for a clutch of the nation’s most advanced jet fighters, including F-22 Raptors.
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 Kelly.
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Drone incursions into restricted airspace was already worrying national-security officials. Two months earlier, in October 2023, five drones flew over a government site used for nuclear-weapons experiments. The Energy Department’s Nevada Nuclear Security Site outside Las Vegas detected four of the drones over three days. Employees spotted a fifth.
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Autonomous weapons are controlled by people and by computers.
It’s chaotic, and stupid.
This was the WSJ story that created the recent news flap about this issue. It was previously behind the WSJ paywall.
Ping
Not ‘stumped’.... rather, traitorous
You cannot tell me that with the billions and billions the US spends on defense, people in positions of authority, responsibility and power can tell me (with a straight face) that they are ‘stumped’.
STOP insulting me!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Meh, these idiots are always stumped anymore.
I figure by reporting it that it must mean they are cooking up some lie or false flag to hit us with.
Langley AFB is NOT restricted airspace, it is in an MOA, ANYONE can fly through or over whenever they want as long as they are above 3000 AGL
If I were President I would tell the base commander that I want something dissected and placed in the White House conference room by the end of the day.
It can either be one of the drones or the base commander.
:-)
The Air Force tracks everything in the continental airspace that rises into the air. They know exactly what these things are, and where they come from. The drones make noises like “lawnmowers.” That means they have internal combustion engines.
So:
-They are terrestrial.
- We know where they come from and where they go.
If those things are true (and I believe they are), then they are our drones and we are testing them against our own bases and staff.
This reporting is specifically used to garner an emotional response. It’s silly.
Does that mean that Soviet nuclear missiles are cleared to fly in that airspace?
Lol.
One possible scenario is that these are creations of a secret military project. The idea is to fly the drones over military bases to see if they could be electronically neutralized. If our military has problems neutralizing them, then perhaps the militaries of other nations will also have problems. Better to field test such a system here than go blind in some other area before we know for sure.
For the good General’s sake, I certainly hope the roof wasn’t sloped.
If it’s “restricted” airspace why weren’t the drones destroyed?
I like the way you put that.
somebody’s dropping a pin?
Sure they did.
Squirrel….
If they have ADS-B, then YES they can fly over and through Langley AFB (LFI)
I feel so much safer knowing that the military plays by the rules...
Lol.
Federal law prohibits shooting down drones over AF bases unless they constitute a threat. More than one is a threat and the need to be shot down. These were large drones, not just a teenage lark.
That would be my guess also, they are ours and it was and is an exercise. During the Predator Drone testing years ago I was flying to AZ in my 172 and a Predator with a 182 chase plane pulled along side me for about 30 miles across the desert, real cute drone.
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