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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They are much lighter than airplanes with radar and heat signature similar to birds. Even the larger ones might look like several birds flying close in formation on radar.
Large flocks of birds tend to fly together right after sunset when these drones have been seen. So getting a visual maybe the only way to differentiate
These are not kids toy drones, but large sophisticated drones flying an estimated 100mph at 3,000 ft. Where is the FAA as these drones constitute a real hazard to aviation? Just like the Chinese spy balloon was allowed to loiter over military installations while it traversed the US heartland unmolested, the Biden Harris administration is allowing these spy drones to fly over military installations without being shot down. The military has every right to end these incursions by shooting the down.
If th military is actually stumped then they might as well close up shop and go home.
Golly gee! What in the world could they possibly be?? Eye roll.
Testing our own stuff? For 17 days? But without bothering to notify the base commander?
Yeah. That makes a lot of sense.
all the helo’s down at the same time???
If I were the base commander I’d Shoot them down and find out who they belong to.
Since that’s not the approach then I suspect this is a made up event to instill fear and suspicion in the populas.
Dropping a pin? Clue me...
Dropping a pin? Clue me...
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like using a GPS or navigation device to pin point a spot on earth. (like we’ve seen them use for smart b0mbs in the ME)
Tough to know what’s going on when you are a biting the pillow general and the person behind you blackmailed you.
To take this further, we might be “training” new systems to deal with drone attacks—a la “iron dome”.
“So getting a visual maybe the only way to differentiate”
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Amazing night vision binoculars (that can see birds) can be purchased for under $200. Imagine what the powerful military versions can see.
Would such training be done in such a public setting and with such mysterious media interaction?
The Pentagon itself is on record saying these “drones” are unidentified...and even the DOD UAP program is in the mix.
Hard for the military to do something about a physical threat when their more concerned with climate change and gender.
With the DEI military we seem to have now, that would be like giving the Keystone Kops STINGERs.
I know people who work with the systems used to identify the aircraft aloft over the CONUS. It’s operating all the time. It picks up on everything in the air. They can track very small craft, from the point of launch to the point of landing.
Why would you tell the media anything about testing your AI systems to identify drone swarms in a crowded airspace? And, I am guessing, what we are not seeing is the laser direction (that would fire actual missiles), that are being activated against these “swarms.”
You would need to be very accurate. You would not be able to test that stuff in the middle of a desert somewhere because you need all of the physical and electronic traffic that would be present in an urban setting.
The PIO guy would not be given that detail. So his answer is that “my sources don’t know.” Because they wouldn’t know.
Now, craft hovering over nukes sites peeks my interest a bit more than this stuff.
NASA’s WB-57Fs were sent to Langley AFB for this very purpose. They fly above such drones and observe and record electronic signatures. No word on what they concluded.
Some are easily tied to defeat strategies - either disable or trace back to launch point.
One wonders - like the infamous Chinese 'weather balloon' - whether this administration is tolerant of unwanted aerial intrusions...❓🤷♂️
Put an AWACs in the area...if that can’t help solve the problem...there’s a real problem.
Yep. See post 57 above.
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