Posted on 10/15/2022 2:42:01 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
he U.S. Navy has released 35 brief reports regarding various incidents involving its ships and facilities and unidentified small uncrewed aircraft systems, or sUASs, across the entire span of the Pacific between 2016 and 2021. Not all of the reports appear to be notable, and some are clearly innocuous, but others absolutely provide additional evidence of concerning trends that The War Zone has been actively reporting on in recent years. Among the newly released reports, for instance, is one that covers a worrying encounter that the Arleigh Burke class destroyer USS Paul Hamilton had with four drones in the Pacific off the coast of southern California in 2019, which you can read more about in our past reporting here.
he War Zone obtained these records in response to a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request to the U.S. Navy's Pacific Fleet (PACFLT) for UAS incident reports made through the OPREP-3 reporting system between 2017 and April 22, 2021. The reports that the Navy released, which may include one incident that occurred in 2016, are all unclassified and only have privacy-related redactions. PACFLT withheld in full another 116 reports that it found, but said were classified.
The 35 released reports all cover what are described as encounters with "Unmanned Aircraft System/Non Traditional Aviation Technology (UAS/NTAT)." NTAT appears to be a term predominantly used by the Department of Homeland Security, rather than the Department of Defense. None of them mention unidentified flying objects (UFO) or unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP), the latter of which is the U.S. military's current preferred term for such things. There do not appear to be any descriptions of extreme performance or otherwise unexplainable capabilities contained within them, either.
(Excerpt) Read more at thedrive.com ...
With an AN/SPY-1D phased array radar system, PAUL HAMILTON incorporates significant advances in the detection capabilities of the AEGIS Weapon System, particularly in its resistance to enemy Electronic Counter Measure (ECM).
Using SPY-1D and the ship's Mark 99 Fire Control System, PAUL HAMILTON can guide its vertically launched Standard Missiles to intercept hostile aircraft and missiles at extended ranges.
To provide point defense against hostile air targets, PAUL HAMILTON is equipped with the Block 1 upgrade to the Phalanx Close In Weapons System (CIWS).
Not extraterrestrial unless aliens are using quadcopters with sd cards. Since they captured one the origin should be easy to identify.
Do those navy leaders know they are a warship anti aircraft weaponry? Copy f they are too pussified to shoot down a drone, they get what they deserve.
Our navy fights back with acronyms and whiny complaints. And of course it’s aliens lol.
They have since been identified as released from a Chinese cargo vessel. I think there is an article about this on The War Zone.
Skeet shooting
Shoot it down? If it’s alien and it has its shield up then it won’t matter, if it’s cheap Chinese crap it should fly apart nicely.
Unless he has orders to do so.
Anyone in fleet command that issues such orders should be replaced.
Mine do too.;-)
Absolutely. Particularly a ship with advance technology on board.
Yes shoot it down but they don’t need to use anything sophisticated. A decent goose gun should do, say a Mossberg 935 in 10 ga.
Nah. SPITBALLS! - The weapon of choice for Brandon’s woke navy
There are official cameras all over an aircraft carrier and every swinging Richard on the tub has a cell phone but no pics or video?
Why do you assume there are no pics or videos? Do you think the captain of a ship with lots of classified Aegis technology is going to say re: pics and videos, “share ‘em if you got ‘em.”
Small drones have limited range. The Navy has to know where they came from and returned to.
Shoot them down! Whoever is doing this will get tired of losing them.
So then why are we being strung alaong?
The Pentagon is not in the business of sharing information with the public.
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