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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Why not do it at a base not located in a busy civilian neiborhood?
Because you would not get all of the RF interference.
If you were doing tests without firing anything, there is no danger of harming any civilians. But you get the full effect of working within that environment.
What are we f’n nuts? Shoot the damn things down. Maybe our WOKE military is afraid to offend their Chinese
leaders
Shoot down a few; do a forensic analysis; figure out what frequency they’re using; radio detection gear shows who is holding the controller; missiles away.
More sense than just letting it happen for 17 days.
Well, you”re right about it not making sense.
Aha, thanks.
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