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Mystery Drones Kept Buzzing U.S. Destroyers During Exercises Off California
forbes.com ^ | David Hambling

Posted on 03/24/2021 8:59:34 AM PDT by RoosterRedux

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To: RoosterRedux

Our military forces should shoot those drones down.


41 posted on 03/24/2021 10:58:22 AM PDT by familyop
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To: RoosterRedux

And there it is again, my re-occurring nightmare of elimination by drone.

Bring it on.


42 posted on 03/24/2021 11:01:56 AM PDT by right way right (May we remain sober over mere men, for God really is our only true hope. )
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To: MercyFlush

Or from a ship over the horizon, or dropped from an aircraft.

Without statistics regarding size and speed, assumptions are useless.


43 posted on 03/24/2021 11:33:55 AM PDT by Vermont Lt
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To: facedown

“Skeet!”

I’m sure the ship’s Captain could rustle up several good old boy crew members that are good with a shotgun.


44 posted on 03/24/2021 11:38:39 AM PDT by moovova (Yo GOP....we won't forget.)
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To: RoosterRedux

Some kind of undersea base there?


45 posted on 03/24/2021 12:14:35 PM PDT by MHGinTN (A dispensation perspective is a powerful tool for discernment)
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To: MHGinTN

Funny you should mention that. Such a base has been suggested as being in that neighborhood and it would explain a lot.


46 posted on 03/24/2021 12:23:43 PM PDT by RoosterRedux
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To: RoosterRedux

If memory serves this old man, Jimmy Church did a few shows on his investigation of the issue ‘out there’.


47 posted on 03/24/2021 12:30:42 PM PDT by MHGinTN (A dispensation perspective is a powerful tool for discernment)
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To: RoosterRedux

100 miles offshore. Submarine launched?


48 posted on 03/24/2021 2:01:40 PM PDT by Rebelbase
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To: Myrddin

Just point the ships radar at them and crank up the power.đź’Ą


49 posted on 03/24/2021 3:35:23 PM PDT by BiteYourSelf ( Earth first we'll strip mine the other planets later.)
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To: RoosterRedux

Back in the mid 60s I worked on an albacore boat out of San Pedro. Once we found ourselves near some Navy ships doing drills near San Clemente. After a while a plane flew over, circled us several times and tried to tell us something, but the plane was so loud that we really couldn’t understand him. In any case he flew away and we kept fishing.

I only bring this up, because some are implying that because the ships were 100 miles off of the coast, they were in the middle of nowhere with no one else around. There used to be a lot of fishing boats out there.


50 posted on 03/24/2021 3:43:17 PM PDT by hanamizu
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To: dragnet2

dragnet2 wrote:
“Drones are a much easier term to deal with than UFO.”
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That’s what I want to know. Were they high speed, silent and “tick-tack” like shaped, similar to the ones the pilots videoed in the same operational area before? Or were they the traditional slow noisy rotor craft? Very little description given besides “drones”. Strange choice of wording without other descriptors.


51 posted on 03/24/2021 5:50:52 PM PDT by Spitzensparkin1 (Donate often, it is our FReeping ammo. Keep the supply train rollin', become a monthly donor. )
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To: RoosterRedux

CHINA SkyNet has been activated.

Autonomous robotic drones are training too.

Training to hunt and kill our Navy.

SS1


52 posted on 03/24/2021 5:57:39 PM PDT by Spitzensparkin1 (Donate often, it is our FReeping ammo. Keep the supply train rollin', become a monthly donor. )
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To: Spitzensparkin1

One anecdotal report says they were tic-tac shaped devices but the ship’s log indicates the order, “man mark 87 stations.” Mark 87 rifles are line-throwing guns and it would appear that the commanding officer was giving orders to shoot a line at a drone in an attempt to capture one.

A line thrower would not bring down a tic-tac, but it would bring down a small drone.


53 posted on 03/24/2021 6:10:15 PM PDT by RoosterRedux
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To: BiteYourSelf

BiteYourSelf wrote:
“Just point the ships radar at them and crank up the power.đź’Ą”

That’s what got the Roswell craft. Three high powered mobile Army radar units were in use and manned at the time. One was at Los Alamos, another was along side of old Rt. 66, now I-40, near the Continental Divide East of Gallup, NM. Not sure where the third unit was. Anyway they focused on it to triangulate its position and down it went. The radar must have interfered with the crafts controls or something causing the crash. Anyway it crashed and was recovered near Corona, NM. I heard this from one of the mobile radar operators who was there.

SS1


54 posted on 03/24/2021 6:13:05 PM PDT by Spitzensparkin1 (Donate often, it is our FReeping ammo. Keep the supply train rollin', become a monthly donor. )
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To: RoosterRedux

RoosterRedux wrote:
“One anecdotal report says they were tic-tac shaped devices but the ship’s log indicates the order, “man mark 87 stations.” Mark 87 rifles are line-throwing guns and it would appear that the commanding officer was giving orders to shoot a line at a drone in an attempt to capture one.”

“A line thrower would not bring down a tic-tac, but it would bring down a small drone.”

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Thanks for the update, in reading further it isn’t clear what size they even were but that sounds right if they could hit it with a line gun. A “tic-tac”, yeah, not so much.

Still if they were of conventional quad copter design (like a DJ Phantom)how did they get 100 NM off shore and where did they go? Were they disposable and just dropped into the sea when their mission was complete?

High strangness.

SS1


55 posted on 03/24/2021 6:31:08 PM PDT by Spitzensparkin1 (Donate often, it is our FReeping ammo. Keep the supply train rollin', become a monthly donor. )
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To: Spitzensparkin1
Exactly. Did they make 90 degree change of direction instantaneously? At at high speed? Seems they intentionally left out all the obvious questions one would ask the witnesses. Described their maneuverability and estimate their speed.

Using the term, "Drones" is pretty ambiguous. Sounds like lip service.

56 posted on 03/24/2021 7:48:03 PM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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