Air Force general reveals ‘alarming’ number of drones crossing into US airspace at southern border: ‘Over 1,000 a month’

nypost.com ^ | March 15, 2024 | Victor Nava

[lowbridge]

More than 1,000 drones per month are crossing into US airspace near the border with Mexico, a top general told lawmakers Thursday. 

The number of unmanned drone incursions is “alarming” and presents a “growing” potential threat to national security,  Air Force Gen. Gregory Guillot, the commander of North American Defense Command and US Northern Command, said during a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing. 

“The number of incursions was something that was alarming to me as I took command last month,” Guillot said in response to a question from Sen. Ted Budd (R-NC).

“I don’t know the actual number – I don’t think anybody does – but it’s in the thousands,” he added. 

When pressed by Budd on the timeframe the general was using to make his estimation, Guillot responded, “We can probably have over 1,000 a month.”

The top NORAD official noted that while the number of incursions alarms him, he hasn’t “seen any of them manifest in a threat to the level of national defense.” 

“But I see the potential only growing,” Guillot warned. 

Mexican cartels have been using drones to track the location of authorities along the US-Mexico border in order to more easily smuggle humans and drugs, according to US Customs and Border Protection officials.

Rio Grande Valley Sector Chief Patrol Agent Gloria Chavez told the House Oversight Committee in February of 2023 that in her Texas sector alone, more than 10,000 drone incursions and 25,000 drone sightings had been reported in the last year.

“The adversaries have 17 times the number of drones, twice the amount of flight hours and unlimited funding to grow their operations,” Chavez told lawmakers.

[hardspunned]

Oh, “release our buddies or give us a billion dollars and we won’t attack (fill in the critical infrastructure)”.

[JohnBovenmyer]

> Hell, Civil Air Patrol cadets in Cessna's with shotguns could do the job

Airborne skeet shooting! ow about some old, slow, warbirds? How many pilots in the Confederate Airforce would be up for some live fire exercises? Late prop fighters like p51s are likely too fast, but something more suitable must exist. Apply WWII production and pilot training methodology and at least a daytime aerial wall could be up in a few months. Night capable options possible, but more expensive.

[T.B. Yoits]

The AT-802U (a modified Air Tractor crop duster) would be more than capable:

https://www.l3harris.com/all-capabilities/skywarden

[BobL]

Everything we had to find them and shoot them down is in Ukraine.

[Scrambler Bob]

It is a very effective method of smuggling.
Very hard to stop.
= = =

Can be a one way trip.

Drone is expendable, and cheap compared with the cargo.

[SunkenCiv]

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[GOPJ]

The top NORAD official noted that while the number of incursions alarms him, he hasn’t “seen any of them manifest in a threat to the level of national defense.” “But I see the potential only growing,” Guillot warned.

Chinese and Middle Eastern military units crossing into the country isn't 'a problem' yet either...but when they're ready to attack they will become a 'threat to national defense'. Do we really have to wait until they kill millions of Americans before we act?

Guess it too much too ask to have the traitors in the FBI, CIA and Homeland take their focus off White Middle Class, Middle Aged Christians long enough to look at a real problem. Then again maybe China has paid off our so called 'protectors'...