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Posted on 12/18/2021 8:32:17 AM PST by RoosterRedux
Earlier this year The War Zone exclusively reported about a series of 2019 incidents that involved unidentified drones stalking US Navy vessels over several nights in the waters off of Southern California. Our initial report also covered the Navy’s investigation into the incidents, which appeared to struggle to identify either the aircraft or their operators. Chief of Naval Operations Admiral Michael Gilday later clarified that the aircraft were never identified, and that there have been similar incidents across the service branches and allied militaries.
Newly released documents obtained via the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) show that the full scope of these drone incursions was greater than it initially appeared, and they persisted well after the Navy’s investigation was launched. Deck logs indicate that drone sightings continued throughout the month of July 2019 and included events where drone countermeasure teams were called into action. One notable event involved at least three ships observing multiple drones. Uncharacteristically for unclassified deck logs, the details on this event are almost entirely redacted.
Among the new documents is the map seen below that details the interactions between a drone (denoted on what appears to be a briefing slide as an unmanned aerial system, or UAS) and a Navy Arleigh Burke-class destroyer, the USS Paul Hamilton.
The map depicts Paul Hamilton making an abrupt right-hand turn while a drone closely follows the ship. The legends and annotations of the map have been redacted under FOIA exemptions that apply to technical data that have military applications. Though the title of the document reads July 17th, the map appears to refer to drone encounters that occurred in the incidents on July 14th and July 15th.
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As Brandon says, buy a shotgun!
Let those boys and girls get up on deck and work on their shooting skills.
If no surface ships nearby, then sub-surface delivered. Their range is NOT infinite, especially the low altitude ones.
Could be ours. SEALs mighta been jacking the NAVY ships around.
All those containers on COSCO cargo ships waiting offshore would make dandy launchpads for drone swarms.
Heheh. That sounds like a reasonable explanation.
This particular incident occurred in 2019.
“All those containers on COSCO cargo ships waiting offshore would make dandy launchpads for drone swarms.”
*****
And when they say, “swarm,” think thousands of armed drones.
That may not be the number in this instance, but coming soon.
Thousands of robot police dogs in our streets, too.
Phalanx!
Yes I think it would be easy to refit the Phalanx CIWS to a smaller Gatling gun that would shoot relatively cheap shotgun shells and fill the sky with shot.
Just hit those drones with your radar. It will fry every electronic part in them.
The Chinese had a policy of one child per family. This resulted in most Chinese families having one male child. Now, China has way more men than women.
This has caused a lot of Chinese men to never have, well, relations with a woman.
In short, there are a lot of horny Chinese men.
These Horny Chinese men have noticed that there are women on American warships.
So, these horny Chinese men built drones to follow our warships around in the hope that they’ll get to see naked female sailors.
It is known as The Sneaky Peekie Operation.
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Did it ever occur to the warriors to just shoot the drones down and examine the parts?
Or did they just wring their little hands?
Interpreting a news story nowadays is extremely hard, because of spin, propaganda and misleading facts. Are they spinning this story? Are “they” our Deep State, military, foreign adversaries or just sloppy reporters?
I have several questions about this story.
1. “Chief of Naval Operations Admiral Michael Gilday later clarified that the aircraft were never identified, and that there have been similar incidents across the service branches and allied militaries.”
Okay, this is interesting. It includes allied militaries—Which allies? All of them, or specifically British, French, Japanese, Australian? What about non-allies and adversaries? What about merchant vessels and commercial planes? I ask because if this is confined to American and Allied militaries, it points to an adversary on this planet—not aliens!
2. The word “drone” is not really descriptive. I have a drone. It is slow and very noisy. The military has drones, and all of them have either propellers or jet engines. The jet engine ones fly high and are not really designed to make abrupt changes in course, especially at low altitudes. So why are these referred to as drones and not, I dunno, UFOs, tic-tacs, squares, etc.? Is the behavior really one of drones—controlled by someone over the electromagnetic frequencies—or something else entirely? The way it is being reported is as if they have a “mind of their own”.
PULL!
That’s in the redacted part. They tried but were unsuccessful.
“ Just hit those drones with your radar. It will fry every electronic part in them.”
The best & most cost effective answer.
That was also in the redacted portion, it didn’t work either.
“Phalanx”!
You beat me to it.
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