SUSPECTS?
Hmmm...could it be that the new owner of the WaPo, Amazon owner Jeff Bezos is bending over backwards to damp down any panic over small drones buzzing around posing any danger to anyone, particularly to POTUS Barry, even though there is a strict NOTAM no-fly zone even at low drone level elevations for miles around DC???
“A good comparison would be the cinematography community that uses these,” he said. “You can certainly lift 25 pounds and have an aircraft that weighs another 15, so a 40-pound device.”
It seems like 15-20 pounds of c-4 would blow a pretty big hole in a building?
Interesting. Assuming there’s no payload on the device, I guess skin is kryptonite to all those whirling blades. They’ll instantly stop and not cause any harm. /sarc
Bull Cheese.
The number of times the White House airspace has been breached numbers in the thousands. They can’t ready enough F-16 Interceptors to chase off the weekly count of small aircraft that inadvertently cross the no-fly zone.
One of these days, it won’t be an accidental fly-over.
And now? Now they can’t keep drones off the White House Lawn?
Hoo Boy.
Several drones are able to carry pay loads above a pound. This creates the possibility of a drown fitted with a small pipe bomb. I’m not thinking that it would be very effective and it would have to get really close to do any real damage, but ......
More BS from the biggest BSer’s of all time. That is White house press secretaries. They can BS better than a used car salesman.
Don’t listen to what the guy says. Just used common sense for this one. It all depends on who is controlling the drone and what that persons resources and capabilities are. Joe six pack is not going to do much damage with a drone. But China or Russia could sure as heck take out the white house if they so desired. Many not so friendly groups and countries could do some pretty terrible things with a drone.
The chances of a drone actually finding the Obamas at home in the White House is minute. They vacation constantly.
The threat is small because drones are super-easy to spot above the fairway...
So if it sprays some sort of chemicals? Virus’?
Most likely some kid flew his quad beyond the distance of his transmitter/controller and it eventually ended up on the WH lawn......LOL!
That happened to my little brother once. Back in the 70's when he was a teenager living in Venice, FL, he used to build radio controlled balsa airplanes then fly them with a club he belonged to. Evidently one day when flying, his plane got too far out in the distance and he lost control of it and it just kept going and going, and going..........out over the swamps and he never saw it again....LOL!
The potential for trouble has existed for years. Go to a radio-controlled aircraft meet sometime. Those guys are flying small jet aircraft and others have live TV cameras aboard. There is no limit but the imagination what you could do for a few thousand dollars.
I’ve wondered over the years just how safe the White House really is. When Clinton lived there a guy landed a small plane of the WH roof! At around the same time another guy fired SKS rounds at it. In 2011, a man with a high power rifle fired 8 rounds at the WH from a couple blocks away (see link). And now we have a drone land on the WH lawn. I think we’ll see the streets permanently closed around the WH in the near future. To some crazy people it must look like a big target.
http://seattletimes.com/html/localnews/2023272819_idahoshooterxml.html
It would be a threat if drones were on a golf course.
US drones fly out of Northern Africa into Iraq, Syria and Iran with explosives, traveling great distances and take out buildings, trucks, tanks, etc.
What protects the WH or any place else for that matter of similar attacks?? The Iranians found a complete US Drone that had crash landed and fabricated a new one from the parts. They now know the technology.
Late in the 4:00 PM hour CNN’s Jake Tapper reported (IIRC) that it was the drone operator who called the Secret Service at about 3:00 AM to report that he had crashed his drone on the WH lawn! Up to that time the SS was not aware that there had been an intrusion, apparently...
“Excuse me Mr. Obama, but I flew my drone into your yard. Could I have it back?”
White House helicopter lands, a drone moves in with explosives or minigun. Helicopter and prez dead.
1. A harmless toy drone crosses the fence while the president happens to be away.
2. The operator turns out to be a government employee.
3. Obama pops up with a ready made statement on the danger of drones and how they must be regulated.
This prick is just incapable of doing anything in a manly, straight forward manner.