The conjectured use of this new facility at Area 51 is fascinating.
Maybe. Unless it isn’t.
Just learning how to best stage, launch, and recover a large number of semi-autonomous jet-powered unmanned systems together will surely be a focus of any such program.
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A program to use on who exactly? We could be the intended targets. Just saying.
Ping...
Skynet!
Slightly off topic. I have seen all the episodes of Ancient Aliens (laugh, I don’t care. It’s amusing and entertaining when not pushing nonsense. No more fictional than all the news networks.)
A current season interviewee said “I don’t really know if the alleged space visitors are bad ones or good ones as people report about them. But I will say this: I have never seen a case of their helping and rescuing us at any point.”
(( Me: If they exist and arrive and are pro Dem then I give up.))
I wouldn't be surprised to find out they are way beyond drones at area 51.
illary really is a half alien hybrid!
Just another Sunday of fantasy to fill the void from kicking the NFL habit...
Maybe those buildings will be the ones hosting the ovens if Harris-Pelousy are in the WH...
Although Yucca Mountain is still available...
We need to stay alert for massive rail line construction to either facility... Or, instead, watch the NBA games...
OTOH, we need to get FR agents inside that spaceship built for Apple to see what that is really for... Maybe it will be used for building, testing, and storing UCAV’s...
So the drones are not going to crash into their target, à la that Gerard Butler movie, but will be large enough to carry ordnance and afterwards return to the hangers?
But for maximum firepower wouldn't you want to have massive amounts of ordnance flying alongside or in formation with your little drones? Or are these drones going to run the gamut from small drones to fighter-size drones to bomber-size drones?
Or are these drones seen as some kind of new powerful laser attack platform? That'd be something!
But leaving science fiction aside and getting back to physically flying alongside the ordnance... Why do that? Just make your cruise missiles smart, then the ordnance wouldn't need the drone to babysit it and/or crunch the numbers for it, and the missile becomes the drone.
Sorry... just trying to grasp the concept here and understand the role of a swarm of drones that don't deliberately fly into the target themselves. But I do get this part of it: a swarm of drones sounds and looks super cool.
I was thinking about diving into custom drone building with my own programming. I would be interested in swarm code.
So much fun stuff out there and the cost is so cheap to research on your own now. Need a bigger office for a bigger work bench. Love the Raspberry Pi.
Angry Drones. Floats like a butterfly, stings like a bee.
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What if they have thousands of mosquito-size hangers?
Our kids in rural Nebraska were witness to an actual drone swarm. A bunch of them flying in formation, occasionally stopping at treetop level, zooming from over the eastern horizon and disappearing over the western horizon. About 8 rotors on each one, more than 6 feet from tip to tip.
These are actually accommodations for aliens. We’re expecting a big crowd for the holidays.