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.
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