Posted on 04/27/2019 11:31:50 AM PDT by Eleutheria5
“Next one may have a nuke on it.”
Or a bio weapon, in a much smaller package, going upwind of the carrier.
“....probably not only spotted on radar but also videod in flight....”
You may have forgotten watched by, at least, three satellites that targeted it long before before it got there and let it go when it was determined it was unarmed. That wasn’t a successful surveillance flight. It was a gift to give them back their recreation equipment so they could play with their toys again some time.
rwood
After the Fitzgerald and McCain fiascos, and what it says about the current navy, good chance they never knew the drone was there.
“I’m really surprised that the Navy would allow any hostile aircraft to fly over any of our ships.”
they wouldn’t, which means the Iranians are lying as usual ...
Point a targeting radar at it and watch the smoke get out. They do tend to fry errant seagulls in flight.
Wow. Must remember to use my targeting radar to drive off unwelcome drones;-)
Yeah, think of 100 microwave ovens compressed to a baseball size beam hitting a seagull. Instant steam explosion.
Imagine a drone trying to fly in that microwave...
When our destroyer was hooked up to an oiler or ammo ship during an underway replenishment in the Tonkin Gulf, half the time a Russian flagged “fishing trawler” would steam straight at us and play chicken until we were forced to break off the unrep. Their craft appeared to be about a hundred or so feet long with fifty or more RF antennae sticking out above the pilot house. We would be steaming around 12 knots and the trawler would approach faster than that...maybe 20 knots.
Multitasking ...do it, we can
Saw that happen more than a couple of times on an old NTU Cruiser - the AN/SPG-55B directors. Helo pilots didn’t like to see them moving.
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