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Posted on 03/28/2026 4:24:02 AM PDT by Kid Shelleen
As all eyes are glued to the happenings in the Middle East, this story flew under the radar for most of us.
But in a lot of ways, the implications for our national security could be greater than what happens in the next few weeks in the Persian Gulf.
Drone warfare has come to the United States—to the heart of our nuclear deterrent capabilities—and our defenses proved inadequate to stop sophisticated drones from interfering with wartime operations.
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Why didn’t anyone try to shoot them down after electronic counter-measures didn’t work?
Bkmk
Good question. I wish we could find out more about this incident...
YADT Yet another drone thread
those who know, are not talking.
Ground troops will be sitting ducks. Videos of them being killed will be flooded onto the internet ala Ukraine/Russia.
Are these drones, or “drones?”
China buying all the land next to military bases.
Ok general. Calm down.
Sure Admiral Kimmel.
“Why didn’t anyone try to shoot them down after electronic counter-measures didn’t work?”
It is currently against the law to shoot down a drone. You’d think this was such a significant threat that the law be damned. But maybe not.
MY guess is they aren’t there to commit harm. They may be from some disaffected individual or organization that is pissed off that this vulnerability exists and is forcing it to be addressed. (Yeah, that’s a wild-ass conspiracy theory.) Obviously, someone has the capacity to do harm and so far, hasn’t. It therefore doesn’t make sense that these drones are from an enemy power as why they would show off the capacity and then not use it.
One thing the AF might do is station hundreds of observers within a fifty-mile radius and connect them with radios so they can watch to see where the drones land. But I spent a whole career dealing with the military and they are very much in their various boxes and get punished for thinking outside the box.
And not only couldn't we stop them. Apparently we haven't been able to capture any or trace where they came from.
It is very concerning that two waves of 15 drones were able to loiter over a strategic Air Force base for four hours without our soldiers being able to bring even ONE of them down.
Even worse, we couldn't follow them back to where they came from!
Would it be possible to develop a drone that locks onto another drone and follow it back to the launch site? Have a qrf (AP’s) mobilize and secure the site.
I would like to know more about the boats/oil tankers Iran supposedly ‘gave’ to the US as a gift related to the negotiations - as per President Trump. A lot of things can be hidden inside an oil tanker, and what better way to screw with us than having several oil tankers blow up etc. in a US port.
I would think that would be pretty simple.
The invasive drone would have to use half of its energy to approach the base, and then use the second half of its energy to return to its point of origin.
Station USAF drones around the base, attached to a charging station or fueled up or whatever. 100% ready to go.
The invasive drone shows up, the USAF drone takes flight, locks on, and follows the invasive drone back to its origin, reporting data as it goes.
How hard could this be?
“Would it be possible to develop a drone that locks onto another drone and follow it back to the launch site? Have a qrf (AP’s) mobilize and secure the site.”
I served as an engineer on numerous military development contracts. The mechanism for developing any new capability is unbelievably bureaucratic. But there is a way to do it on a really short cycle. Cut the government and procurement out entirely. Go to industry with a requirement and take in several proposals, mostly from non-traditional suppliers and then fund a few of them to prototype stage. This is happening in Ukraine where companies and individuals are presenting ideas, some of which have led to serious advancements. The thing is that big companies are too slow and stuck in their processes to respond in the timeframe needed.
Epirusinc.com has a system named Leonidas that in developement/testing as we speak. If they get full funding they will probably be the first to be operationally deployed.
Epirusinc.com has a system named Leonidas that in developement/testing as we speak. If they get full funding they will probably be the first to be operationally deployed.
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