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Droning on … and on … and on …
American Thinker ^ | Eric Utter

Posted on 12/12/2024 4:05:27 AM PST by RoosterRedux

The Chinese flew a giant freaking balloon across the entire continent and we didn't do anything about it, despite its glacial pace. They must surely believe that they could get away with flying a few dozen drones over New Jersey and New York — and their attendant military bases, dams, and other infrastructure.

As well as Trump’s properties.

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Under the Biden administration, the U.S.’s military readiness and capability appears to have regressed to pre-World War I levels, despite the advent of high-tech weaponry.

These drones fly at roughly the speed of a World War I aeroplane. A pilot in a Sopwith Camel or a Fokker Triplane could probably shoot one down.

I picture a pilot in an open cockpit with goggles, a leather vest, and a scarf trailing behind him pursuing one of these drones, his crude Gatling-style machine gun ablazin.’

Yet, the U.S. can't figure out what these drones are up to or what to do about them, mimicking how it handled the now infamous spy balloon.

It seems like, at this point in time, China could attack the U.S. with wooden schooners, slow boats from China, and it would be unable to quickly identify them … or protect its coasts as they bombarded Los Angeles and New York with cannonballs. Or whatever.

(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: aviation; china; drones; feckless; fjb; newjersey; newyork; njdrones; pennsylvania; virginia
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1 posted on 12/12/2024 4:05:27 AM PST by RoosterRedux
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The incompetence of the Biden deepstate drone parade.


2 posted on 12/12/2024 4:10:07 AM PST by Theophilus (covfefe)
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its a deliberate act on both biden and xi


3 posted on 12/12/2024 4:12:05 AM PST by ronnie raygun
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More on NJ drone activity:

Politician claims there is an Iranian mother ship off East Coast, DOD says otherwise. Fact: Iran does have a drone mother ship. The ship is usually parked in one place, but now is gone. Where, no one seems to know.

The US has holes in its radar coverage. So it is possible the drones are coming ashore through one of those holes.

Why aren’t they shot down? Last night’s Hannity show began on the drone topic. Toward the end on the first segment, some guest says something about why the military has not shoot them down to the effect they are not allowed to do that, and if some private citizen does, he will go to jail. I was out of the room when those comments were offered, so I cannot say if that is accurate - someone will have to find a clip of that show to verify or quash.


Meanwhile:

Coast Guard Ship Stalked by Unidentified Aircraft, Iran Drone Mothership Claim Shot Down by DoD
While a credible national security issue appears to be unfolding in New Jersey, erroneous drone reports are being peddled, fueling hysteria.
https://www.twz.com/news-features/coast-guard-ship-stalked-by-unidentified-aircraft-iran-drone-mothership-claim-shot-down-by-dod

Many of the reported sightings are actually planes and helicopters.


and the complete dive into this drone business:

Lasers, Microwaves, Missiles, Guns Not on The Table For Domestic Drone Defense
Policy hurdles are limiting what capabilities the U.S. military can even consider to help provide critical domestic anti-drone defenses after years of inaction.
https://www.twz.com/news-features/lasers-microwaves-missiles-guns-not-on-the-table-for-domestic-drone-defense


4 posted on 12/12/2024 4:19:54 AM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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A couple months ago they did THE SAME THING, flying huge drones over all our bases in the Norfolk Virginia area. Night after night. No response. None.

What the F do we spend all those trillions of dollars on? You got Naval Station Norfolk, the largest naval base in the world, you've got Langley AFB (home base of the F-22), you've got Naval Air Station Oceana (home of the F/A-18 super hornets).

Good God if those drones had dropped anti-LGBQ leaflets, things would have gone Code Red. There would have been all hell to pay.

5 posted on 12/12/2024 4:23:54 AM PST by Governor Dinwiddie ( O give thanks unto the Lord, for He is gracious, and His mercy endureth forever. — Psalm 106)
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China could attack the U.S. with wooden schooners, slow boats from China, and it would be unable to quickly identify them … or protect its coasts as they bombarded Los Angeles and New York with cannonballs. Or whatever.

Or "migrants." Sure, why not? The balloon caper was their finger in the wind, now they're poking us in the eye.

6 posted on 12/12/2024 4:34:57 AM PST by Buttons12 ( )
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‘They’ know exactly what and whose they are. This is all Sergeant Schulz gaslighting.

In the role I recently retired from, I observed/read about a good deal of *existing* ‘drone’/UAS detection, tracking and countermeasure technologies. Our armed forces and DHS have them, maybe not widely deployed, but we *do* have them.

‘Someone’ is telling the usual suspects to say nothing more than ‘we know nothing.’ It’s disgraceful.

Once Trump is in office, even if this was a US SAP (special access program) his administration will be able to tell us the truth, with an appropriate level of detail.


7 posted on 12/12/2024 4:45:48 AM PST by Blueflag (To not carry is to choose to be defenseless.)
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Our clueless governor Murphy says “we don’t see any concern for public safety”. What an ass-wipe. Not until public outrage has he changed his tune. Unless you know exactly what the drones are doing and where they are from, how can you make such a stupid statement? Oh, of course. It’s because he is stupid.


8 posted on 12/12/2024 5:01:48 AM PST by Omnivore-Dan
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AI has become sentient. These are proto terminators.


9 posted on 12/12/2024 5:05:19 AM PST by HYPOCRACY (Democracy is dead. Long live the Republic!)
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Exactly what I was thinking. China flew spy balloons over our country without fear of recrimination, they just upped their game.

How many tens of thousands of Chinese illegals are there here, who’ve been parting drones together based on Chinese specs who are now executing a plan developed by China to do exactly what’s going on?

And I read this morning elsewhere online that a FLEET of bus sized drones were flying over OKC last night. That included video of the “fleet” which may be AI Generated for all I know. Hard for me to tell, but am skeptical of at least this claim.


10 posted on 12/12/2024 5:33:18 AM PST by usconservative (When The Ballot Box No Longer Counts, The Ammunition Box Does. (What's In Your Ammo Box?))
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I’m beginning to wonder if this is just to distract the news cycle from something more troubling.


11 posted on 12/12/2024 5:40:07 AM PST by Falcon4.0
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"Many of the reported sightings are actually planes and helicopters."

Which is why government agencies haven't gotten involved. Most of the videos of "mysterious drones" are planes and helicopters with deliberately deceptive narratives.

UFO Believers Think all Planes are UAPs

12 posted on 12/12/2024 5:40:57 AM PST by yesthatjallen
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13 posted on 12/12/2024 6:13:59 AM PST by CtBigPat
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To: Falcon4.0
I’m beginning to wonder if this is just to distract the news cycle from something more troubling.

They're lit up like Christmas trees and flying over bases with impunity. The dog didn't bark (the military isn't shooting them down).

Theories abound.

14 posted on 12/12/2024 6:20:12 AM PST by Sirius Lee ("Never argue with a fool, onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.")
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“Theories abound”.
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I’m calling this, US military “compartmentalization”.

(Ignorance for a good reason).

This is “Need to Know” by our military.
Let’s not get distracted from corruption in the Biden Crime Family.


15 posted on 12/12/2024 6:27:20 AM PST by Does so (A country about to outlaw Yellow #4 food dye but makes Marijuana legal?...🇺🇦...Dem☭¢rat...≣)
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To: RoosterRedux
We know what we know

We know what we don't know

We don't know what we know

We don't know what we don't know

...D Rumsfeld

16 posted on 12/12/2024 6:47:40 AM PST by pfflier
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To: Blueflag

The Pentagon spokesman yesterday refused to say they were not American drones just that they weren’t “US military” drones. They know what they are and where they come from.


17 posted on 12/12/2024 6:57:26 AM PST by circlecity
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To: RoosterRedux

Obama/Biden/Harris have taken the country back in so many ways.


18 posted on 12/12/2024 6:59:50 AM PST by 1Old Pro
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To: circlecity

Google... Colorado drone swarm 2019, 2020

Same exact thing was happening, SUV size drones flew around in swarms for weeks, govt never knew nothing, denied any knowledge of anything


19 posted on 12/12/2024 7:03:05 AM PST by baclava
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Just the other day a Chinese guy flew a drone over Vandenberg, got caught, then subsequently was caught at the airport going back to China with the drone photos.

Judge gas given him $0 bail.

He might be let out today if appeal of that bail is turned down.

It’s crazy.


20 posted on 12/12/2024 7:21:48 AM PST by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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