“I’m stunned that we can’t fight fires because some idiot sends a drone up there,”
Come on out and watch air attack operations sometime. It will be pretty clear. Those bombers get very low, ingesting a drone at the wrong time could be extremely dangerous. They aren’t going to risk the lives of the crew.
I understand the danger of drones in the flight path. My response is to shoot the damn things down, not have to be unable to fight a fire because some idiot is playing with a drone.