I feel so much better "Prohibitions" always work
Posted on 02/13/2013 11:59:43 AM PST by Biggirl
MCLEAN, Va. — A top official with the Federal Aviation Administration reassured the public on Wednesday that, despite the fear and paranoia of some, no armed drones will be permitted to fly in U.S. airspace. “We currently have rules in the books that deal with releasing anything from an aircraft, period. Those rules are in place and that would prohibit weapons from being installed on a civil aircraft,” said Jim Williams, head of the FAA's Unmanned Aircraft Systems Integration Office, in an address to the drone industry’s leading trade group meeting this week in Northern Virginia.
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“...reassured the public”
Now I feel better.
“Those rules are in place and that would prohibit weapons from being installed on a civil aircraft”
What if its not a ‘civil’ aircraft?
Could have sworn I heard one giving a speech on TV last night...
Then shedding the weapon would make the craft legal.
Plus the gov't is not all that civil these days.
Then why are there reports of 63 ‘launch sites’ for such drones already here in the USA???
Executive order allowing armed drones to assist in the elimination to threats to national security in 3...2...1...
So, the Hellfire missile gets “shed” by launching it at a target,
then the craft is once again legal.
THIS IS A LIE.
Jim Williams, as a ‘senior official at the FAA’ certainly knows the term ‘MARSA’.
So do I.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MARSA_(aviation)
“What if its not a ‘civil’ aircraft?”
I think that the term “Civil” is probably going to be accompanied by an asterisk* and re-defined
Key word: Armed.
It’s interesting that he qualified it.
One little executive order from the king will put the kill list out on anyone who loves God and guns. Law or procedures be damned. He gets his jollies on breaking the law because no one has the guts to put him down.
Key word: Armed.
It’s interesting that he qualified it.
Also, could an unarmed drone not paint a target with a laser?
Cite the soruces please.
In urban areas, police departments are opting for the ‘shadowhawk’. Its a helicopter...no need for any special launch site.
They have cameras in them...Texas is considering rubber bullets and tear gas...
...the shawdowhawk can easily be armed with a shotgun, and is used this way against pirates right now.
So essentially, the only thing that keeps a cop from putting a shotgun in the shadowhawk is...well nothing but his morals.
I have no idea if putting a shotgun in a mount is considered ‘installed’ in government speak...I suspect it isn’t.
That's the way they make it sound. Nothing to see here, move along.
Most gov't statements are carefully crafted and can be parsed in any number of ways.
Unless I see or read of something that backs up what you have posted, then it is all hersey.
Someone needs to inform the DOT since they consider law enforcement aircraft ‘public’, not private aircraft.
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