Pentagon warns it’s not prepared for homeland drone attack (Hearing on Tues 4/29 - House Oversight Committee).

Defense One ^ | Audrey Decker

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Citing the hundreds of drones that flew around military sites last year, defense officials warn that the Pentagon is still unprepared to defend its installations—but say a new standard operating procedure, and expanded authorities, could help.

“Mass drone incursions over Joint Base Langley-Eustis in December 2023 reminded us that the homeland is no longer a sanctuary, and should our adversary choose to employ drones for surveillance or even attack, we would not be prepared to adequately defend our homeland and only marginally capable to defend our military installations,” Rear Adm. Paul Spedero, vice director for operations for the Joint Staff, said Tuesday during a House oversight subcommittee on military and foreign affairs hearing.

The mysterious drone swarms over Langley Air Force Base in Virginia in 2023 raised questions about when base commanders can legally take down drones, and how the military should coordinate with the various agencies that oversee U.S. airspace.

In addition to Langley, Spedero cited drone incursions at Plant 42 in California and Picatinny Arsenal and Naval Weapons Station Earle in New Jersey. The Pentagon reported 350 drone detected last year over 100 different military installations—a number that continues to rise, Spedero said.

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Rep. William Timmons, R-S.C., the chairman of the subcommittee, called the drone incursions “a coordinated effort by our adversaries to collect valuable intelligence and surveillance of some of our most sensitive military equipment.”

While Spedero stopped short of naming specific instances of adversarial spying, he agreed that U.S. adversaries have “demonstrated that they will use this type of activity, for unauthorized surveillance, for espionage.”

Part of the Pentagon’s struggle to respond to these incidents lies in “challenges” with “our ability to implement a relatively untested interagency coordination process,” Mark Ditlevson, acting assistant secretary of defense for homeland defense and hemispheric affairs, said [during hearing].

[GingisK]

I would bet that was news to the FAA.

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Yeah, it would be interesting to be a fly on the wall.

[spirited irish]

In a recent interview with Tucker Carlson, Catherine Austin Fitts exposed the existence of secret underground military bases all over the USA. She believes the purpose of the bases is a mass extermination event. That said, I believe the drone swarms were launched from these secret installations as a show of power to induce fear and speculation about UAPs. In the case of an extermination event they’ll doubtless be armed with DEWs.

[BFW]

The ukrainians are using cardboard explosive packed radio controlled toys to blow up russian tanks ... Unless there’s a black project in the closet somewhere, dam right we are not prepared.