Posted on 10/20/2024 4:27:06 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
ox added some detail to the account of the incursion, "The drones would start to arrive about 45 minutes to an hour after sunset each night, one official reportedly told US Air Force Gen. Mark Kelly, who joined several other officers responsible for the country's most advanced jet fighters, including F-22 Raptors, on a squadron rooftop.
"Kelly described the first drone he saw as roughly 20 feet long and flying at more than 100 miles an hour, at an altitude of roughly 3,000 to 4,000 feet.
"As many as a dozen or more drones followed, flying across Chesapeake Bay, and then traveling toward Norfolk, Virginia...
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This hardly sounds like Dad and Junior exploring the wonders of flight from their backyard.
And what was the response from our $170 billion per year Air Force?
Did they open up with anti-aircraft batteries and blast the drones out of the sky?Scramble a squadron of F–22s to escort the drones into the same grave occupied by the Japanese Imperial Air Force?Or launch a Piper Cub with a shotgun riding shotgun to see how the drone fleet would deal with 00 buck?
In a word, no.
While the drone fleet proceeded unmolested, taking photographs and gathering intelligence, we’re wondering if ground personnel waved at the unknown aircraft to show how harmless they were.
Meanwhile, instead of using the F-22s at the base to eliminate the drone threat, the courageous commander moved his jets to another base and hoped the drones wouldn’t follow.
If we were Chinese or Russian military planners, we’d be laughing uncontrollably right about no
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Have they thought of opening a Venmo account?
Maybe the drones belong to them
The simplest and most likely explanation which is usually correct. No mi
Define “them”?
They call them “drones,” but are they?
The response really does boggle the mind.
It makes no sense.
Are they UFOs or a US military classified project?
If they’re foreign, from another country on Earth, we’ve already lost.
Good point. Car-sized and oval.
Also, it’s not just the Air Force.
From Newsweek: https://www.newsweek.com/drones-langley-air-force-base-us-military-mystery-1968605
One senior official based at Langley told The Journal that multiple drones headed across Chesapeake Bay and further south toward the city of Norfolk. They reportedly traveled across Naval Station Norfolk, the world’s largest naval port and the main base for the Navy’s vaunted SEAL Team Six.
Also, Nevada: https://taskandpurpose.com/news/mystery-drones-langley-afb/
“Two months earlier, in October 2023, five drones flew over a government site used for nuclear-weapons experiments,” the article reads. “The Energy Department’s Nevada Nuclear Security Site outside Las Vegas detected four of the drones over three days. Employees spotted a fifth.”
It’s unclear if the Nevada drones are linked to the ones that flew over Langley, but their source also remains unknown.
In the next pass the drones should air drop perfume for the base commander.
Lol.
Read somewhere else.
Backed up by video “proof”. Drone flew past a vehicle with EW jamming equipment and antenna’s. Went stright to a speeding tank, and destroyed the tank
Russia is using carbon fibre on some of their drones
Invisible to radar
Invisible to other electronic warefare measures
One wonders if the White House was in the communication loop?
Where did this take place?
Yes. Drones operated by one of our own agencies. Could be CIA,NSA, Military Intelligence.
Women’s perfume or men’s perfume?
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How about CHINA.
Oh they responded alright: “USAF Gen. Mark Kelly . . . joined several other officers . . . on a squadron rooftop.” They watched! They watched while this went on for several nights in a row. We’d better hope they were ours. Another article detailed the rather flimsy excuses for there being no response. Signal jamming? That could hamper local 9-1-1 comms. Shoot down? Something about restricted airspace over Langley and the Norfolk naval base. Yes, we’d better hope this was our own doing.
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