Drone Swarm in Virginia Shows Concerning Gaps and Seams in Homeland Security

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com ^ | 10/17/2024 | JOHN MILLS

[bitt]

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[BenLurkin]

I have, yet another, dumb question.

Wouldn’t an aircraft with downward looking RADAR see these things, see where they come from, and see where they go?

[DesertRhino]

“In December 2023, for 17 continuous days, a fleet of drones appeared at night over Langley Air Force Base (AFB), Virginia and other facilities in the greater Virginia Beach area.”

WOW... the government would never scam us. I guess we better make drones illegal and further lockdown America. A police state is a safe state.

[DesertRhino]

Careful, your critical thinking skills are showing. I hope you are not suggesting that since the DC area is one of the most closely watched by sensors and radar in America, and therefore they might be lying to us again.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

I'd be VERY surprised if we don't have satellite surveillance that is watching them nonstop.

It's a technical challenge to discriminate a small object against the reflection coming back from the earth. But you can use Doppler radar to detect small MOVING objects against the background echo from the earth. So, yes, I would imagine surveillance aircraft could track those moving drones. More here...

Look-down/shoot-down Radar

[Bob Ireland]

***I have, yet another, dumb question. Wouldn’t an aircraft with downward looking RADAR see these things, see where they come from, and see where they go?***

Perhaps no one who should have cared was paying any attention. Certainly that infamous 'weather balloon' was seen but until civilians saw it and raised a flock of questions, nothing was even said. It was a serious oversight because I have seen a picture of that same Chinese air frame with four hypersonic missiles suspended underneath - a FIRST STRIKE weapon!

[SpaceBar]

“Gaps and seams” must be a nice way to refer to their politicization and incompetence.

[bigbob]

And we have no clue? Gimme a break.

[FamiliarFace]

I don’t have a WSJ account, but my husband does, so he showed me the related article a day or two ago. It is very disturbing. Yet, our government seems to be perplexed as to who could be behind this, and why. They don’t seem to care about national security much at all. It’s WAAYYY more important to keep Donald Trump from being re-elected.

[heartwood]

Flying too low for radar?

[kvanbrunt2]

Sounds like a CIA election physops. OOOOhhhhh bad man Trump and the russians.

[citizen]

Those aliens are smart! Disguising their planetary surveillance craft as domestic military drones.

[Waverunner]

History repeats itself, again.

[Gaffer]

It would first have to be a very sensitive radar to see the small radar cross section of a drone. Many of them are in the -15 to -20 dBsm range for X and Ka Bands (8-12.4 and 26.5-40 GHz). A 0 dbsm RCS is the equivalent reflection of a 1 meter square plate. You could also look for prop modulations and/or doppler but they’re still mostly made of plastic.

https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9032332

[BenLurkin]

Interesting

[RoosterRedux]

Ping

[Flag_This]

I bet security would be tighter if we didn’t have a Chicom meat puppet as “CinC.”

[RoosterRedux]

One of these was overhead at Langley during the swarm:

NASA’s WB-57Fs are specialized research aircraft that can be configured to carry a wide array of imaging and other sensors and equipment in their noses and other modular payload bays

[RoosterRedux]

These “drones” were the size of a car.