Posted on 03/24/2021 8:59:34 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
New details have emerged of how mysterious drones harassed U.S. warships off California on multiple occasions in 2019. The Navy has yet to determine where the drones came from, who was operating them, or why they buzzed around a group of U.S. destroyers.
The incidents were first reported by documentary filmmaker Dave Beaty, with new details obtained by news website The Drive using Freedom of Information Act requests to get the ships' logs of the encounters.
The vessels involved were the destroyers USS Kidd, USS Rafael Peralta and USS John Finn. They were engaged in a training exercise in a military area about a hundred miles off Los Angeles in low visibility. This location tells us something immediately: these were not hobbyist quadcopters that happened to see some cool ships and flew over for a look, but something far more deliberate.
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The incident is immediately reminiscent of the multiple incursions of drones over U.S. nuclear facilities we reported last year. Some 24 sites suffered 57 drone incursions from 2014-to 2019. In one of the more dramatic incidents in September 2019, “five or six” drones flew over the Palo Verde nuclear power plant for around ninety minutes.
As with the Navy incident, the drones were not single but operated as part of a coordinated group. As with the Navy, these were larger craft with greater endurance than consumer models, suggesting an operator with considerable resources. And as with the Navy encounter, investigators failed to establish who flew the drones, where they were flown from – and most of all why.
The most obvious explanation for both sets of drone incursions is that they were testing security – and in both cases the targets seem to have failed.
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CHYNA !!!!!!
Given the demonstrated threat of these small drones the USN should have shot them down - free target practice.
Skeet!
Consider it free target practice.
Given the demonstrated threat of these small drones the USN should have shot them down - free target practice.
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Prolly too busy complying with diversity initiatives to focus on doing anything else.
Consider it free target practice.
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We don’t have ‘targets’ anymore. We have observable phenomena that we need to understand and relate to. /sarc
catch them with shotgun nets- if it is china we’ll get valuable information.
If it is private wise-asses they’ll stop doing it when they keep losing their drones.
oops I need to read further...
Flying over a nuclear facility is against the law. Shoot one or two down and see who built and flew them. Then take offensive action against the source. Are our military and Navy that incompetent?
Drones are a much easier term to deal with than UFO.
They just didn't want to hurt anybody's feelings.
One would think that a group of unidentified drones buzzing around a destroyer task force would be fodder for the ship’s guns. Looks like the Navy has some weird rules of engagement. Can’t believe the military is unable to track them back to their lair. Is the US military operating with one hand tied behind it’s back or is this disinformation.
100 miles offshore?? Must have been deployed from a boat. Or ultra long range pricey drones.
Seriously, doesn’t the USN have and issue cheapie RF jammers?
As soon as a drone enters its field, it should take a nose dive into the drink.
Skeet!
The USN is converting to steel shot projectiles in all weapon systems because of the harm lead causes to wildlife and the environment.
There were no sharpshooter aboard?
Common sense says if there is no sign of the controller within eye sight, these “drones” are of high tech and must be considered hostile. Fired up the Phalanx and down em!!
Sounds like a target practice opportunity for the Gunner’s Mates.
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