Posted on 12/12/2024 9:18:59 AM PST by Governor Dinwiddie
Mysterious drones have been spotted flying around one of the U.S.'s most sensitive military areas, leaving defense officials and local authorities stumped as to who is behind the unknown uncrewed aerial vehicles zipping across the sky around a major U.S. air base.U.S. military personnel reported drones appearing in restricted airspace over Langley Air Force Base in Hampton, Virginia, shortly after sunset during a period of more than two weeks, according to The Wall Street Journal.
Officials haven't determined if the drones belong to enthusiasts or are operated by countries such as Russia or China, according to the report. U.S. officials are not convinced that hobbyists were behind the controls, with the drones flying in a pattern and using a frequency band not associated with easily bought, commercial drones, The Journal reported.
The Pentagon referred queries to the U.S. Air Force and Langley, which Newsweek contacted via email for comment.
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And then the rest of the country at some point.
ALARM AND NO ANSWERS!
And old joe is collecting his 10%,...or something.
Quick, get World War III going!!
I don’t know what to think about all of this
The military acting like we don’t know much and we can’t stop it.
Exactly
Double posts spark alarm at FR.
I figure a black part of the US government has advanced drones.
I figure most of the government has no idea about these advanced drones.
I figure the government is fairly honest when it says, “We have no knowledge”.
What I don’t understand is why the black program continues to fly the drones while getting all this attention. They must have a compelling reason to do this right out in the open, but I can’t imagine what that reason might be.
Give the base commander twenty four hours to shoot some down and capture them.
If they fail they are fired.
Work through the chain of command until it is done.
No excuses.
No explanations.
Just do it.
My guess is that the Chinese are now regularly probing US airspace with drones, and our military has no idea how to stop it.
What kind of leadership allows not only an invasion of borders, but now our airspace?
Shoot them down.
Easy peasy.
No excuses.
Keep firing people until it is done.
Bola guns.
I’m glad our highly-paid military experts have determined that the drones fly in a pattern and use a frequency band not associated with easily bought, commercial drones.
I’m not glad that we have advertized to the whole world that they can send drones here to spy and that nothing will stop them. The foreign power who sent them knows the drones can be used to get information and/or to attack and destroy anything they want.
They already know the electrical grid is vulnerable. It wouldn’t take much for the foreign power to destroy the grid just before the inauguration.
How about shooting some down, and then tracking the others as they go back to wherever they came from?
It’s been reported that when approached by aircraft or drones the mystery drones turn off all their lights......which tells me that whoever is responsible WANTS them to be seen.
Why would a drone need what amounts to headlights?
If the US DOD cannot solve this “mystery”, they are incompetent.
Posting for the meme, the comments are worth the read, too.
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