“ I can only imagine what we would do if we discovered an Orion-2 flying off the coast of California or the Gulf of Mexico. ”
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I don’t know what an Orion-2 is but assume it is a Russian drone from the context. To be a closer in equivalence the Orion-2 would be providing targeting information to some elements within CONUS which the Russians had provided with technically elite military weaponry and those elements were killing Americans with those weapons as well as destroying billions of dollars of American military equipment and civilian structures.
But the Orion-2 stayed in international airspace so NO-BIG-DEAL?
The Orion-2:
The MQ-9 Reaper: