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Unidentified drone swarm over Langley Air Force Base Date: October 14, 2024 02:47PM |
Unidentified Drone Swarm over US Military Base Sparks Alarm
Mysterious drones have been spotted flying around one of the U.S.'s most sensitive military areas, leaving defense officials and local authorities stumped as to who is behind the unknown uncrewed aerial vehicles zipping across the sky around a major U.S. air base.
U.S. military personnel reported drones appearing in restricted airspace over Langley Air Force Base in Hampton, Virginia, shortly after sunset during a period of more than two weeks, according to The Wall Street Journal.
The drones appeared in December last year, according to the report, pulling in officials across the Pentagon, FBI and the Defense Department's specialized office for investigating unidentified aerial phenomena.
Officials haven't determined if the drones belong to enthusiasts or are operated by countries such as Russia or China, according to the report. U.S. officials are not convinced that hobbyists were behind the controls, with the drones flying in a pattern and using a frequency band not associated with easily bought, commercial drones, The Journal reported.
The Pentagon referred queries to the U.S. Air Force and Langley, which Newsweek contacted via email for comment.
The article continues here: Newsweek
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Mysterious drones have been spotted flying around one of the U.S.'s most sensitive military areas, leaving defense officials and local authorities stumped as to who is behind the unknown uncrewed aerial vehicles zipping across the sky around a major U.S. air base.
U.S. military personnel reported drones appearing in restricted airspace over Langley Air Force Base in Hampton, Virginia, shortly after sunset during a period of more than two weeks, according to The Wall Street Journal.
The drones appeared in December last year, according to the report, pulling in officials across the Pentagon, FBI and the Defense Department's specialized office for investigating unidentified aerial phenomena.
Officials haven't determined if the drones belong to enthusiasts or are operated by countries such as Russia or China, according to the report. U.S. officials are not convinced that hobbyists were behind the controls, with the drones flying in a pattern and using a frequency band not associated with easily bought, commercial drones, The Journal reported.
The Pentagon referred queries to the U.S. Air Force and Langley, which Newsweek contacted via email for comment.
The article continues here: Newsweek
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Re: Unidentified drone swarm over Langley Air Force Base Date: October 14, 2024 03:35PM |
eh, don't they just shoot them down?
wouldn't they have 24/7 radio scanning going on?
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wouldn't they have 24/7 radio scanning going on?
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Re: Unidentified drone swarm over Langley Air Force Base Date: October 14, 2024 05:02PM |
"regulatory issues"!!!!!!!!!!!!
wtf!?!? It's the fkn US Army. They don't need no stinkin badges.!!
Surface to air.
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Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 10/14/2024 05:04PM by Fritz.
wtf!?!? It's the fkn US Army. They don't need no stinkin badges.!!
Surface to air.
!#$@@$#!
Nolite manducare flavo.
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 10/14/2024 05:04PM by Fritz.
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Re: Unidentified drone swarm over Langley Air Force Base Date: October 14, 2024 05:19PM |
Thanks, there's lots more info in that link.
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The first drone arrived shortly. Kelly, a career fighter pilot, estimated it was roughly 20 feet long and flying at more than 100 miles an hour, at an altitude of roughly 3,000 to 4,000 feet. Other drones followed, one by one, sounding in the distance like a parade of lawn mowers.
How can anyone launch a dozen or more 20' drones without being detected?
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Re: Unidentified drone swarm over Langley Air Force Base Date: October 14, 2024 07:12PM |
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are drone propellers not that strong? why aren't the eagles legs chopped up?
Yes, and plus, have you seen eagles' talons??? Never arm-wrestle a bald eagle: [intobirds.com]
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Re: Unidentified drone swarm over Langley Air Force Base Date: October 14, 2024 08:05PM |
DARPA needs to work on EMP "guns", and when they fall on a military base, they just 
"Defending your own life when in immediate danger to me is a basic right of each person. " Lemon Drop 11/17/2023 03:10 pm
Heller, 554 U.S. 570 (2008) Private citizens have the right under the Second Amendment to possess an ordinary type of weapon and use it for lawful, historically established situations such as self-defense in a home, even when there is no relationship to a local militia.
"The conclusion is thus inescapable that the history, concept, and wording of the second amendment to the Constitution of the United States, as well as its interpretation by every major commentator and court in the first half-century after its ratification, indicates that what is protected is an individual right of a private citizen to own and carry firearms in a peaceful manner." Right to Keep and Bear Arms: Report of the Subcommittee on the Constitution of the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, Ninety-seventh Congress, Second Session. U.S. Government Printing Office. 1982. Digitized September 30, 2008.
From the NYSRPA v Bruen "Today, we decline to adopt that two-part approach. . . . Despite the popularity of this two-step approach, it is one step too many. Step one of the predominant framework is broadly consistent with Heller, which demands a test rooted in the Second Amendment's text, as informed by history."
"Defending your own life when in immediate danger to me is a basic right of each person. " Lemon Drop 11/17/2023 03:10 pm
Heller, 554 U.S. 570 (2008) Private citizens have the right under the Second Amendment to possess an ordinary type of weapon and use it for lawful, historically established situations such as self-defense in a home, even when there is no relationship to a local militia.
"The conclusion is thus inescapable that the history, concept, and wording of the second amendment to the Constitution of the United States, as well as its interpretation by every major commentator and court in the first half-century after its ratification, indicates that what is protected is an individual right of a private citizen to own and carry firearms in a peaceful manner." Right to Keep and Bear Arms: Report of the Subcommittee on the Constitution of the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, Ninety-seventh Congress, Second Session. U.S. Government Printing Office. 1982. Digitized September 30, 2008.
From the NYSRPA v Bruen "Today, we decline to adopt that two-part approach. . . . Despite the popularity of this two-step approach, it is one step too many. Step one of the predominant framework is broadly consistent with Heller, which demands a test rooted in the Second Amendment's text, as informed by history."
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Re: Unidentified drone swarm over Langley Air Force Base Date: October 14, 2024 09:28PM |
The military needs a way to knock these drones out of the sky quickly without collateral damage.
Exactly.
There is the matter of the failing/falling/exploding drone possibly causing collateral damage.
are drone propellers not that strong? why aren't the eagles legs chopped up?
Because the props on these 'toy' drones, by comparison aren't that strong.
The eagles grab the props stopping them immediately.
Their feet and talons are tough and fairly resistant to the props, though there was talk of developing shin guards to to help protect them.
These birds were trained to capture and ground consumer drones, not these much bigger drones moving at 100mph.
But, like risking sacrificing dogs for the safety of police officers, perhaps an eagle could intercept and damage a prop of a larger drone.
About the same time as the Eagle Scout programs, there were some EMP weapons being tested.
These were much smaller than would probably be needed now.
What we need are Peregrine drone hunters – high speed drone armed with lasers, EMP weapons, nets, prop fouling gear, etc to intercept and ground suspect drones.
But yeah, 'till then let's blast 'em all outta the sky and fk all where debris rains.
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Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 10/14/2024 10:24PM by RAMd®d.
Exactly.
There is the matter of the failing/falling/exploding drone possibly causing collateral damage.
are drone propellers not that strong? why aren't the eagles legs chopped up?
Because the props on these 'toy' drones, by comparison aren't that strong.
The eagles grab the props stopping them immediately.
Their feet and talons are tough and fairly resistant to the props, though there was talk of developing shin guards to to help protect them.
These birds were trained to capture and ground consumer drones, not these much bigger drones moving at 100mph.
But, like risking sacrificing dogs for the safety of police officers, perhaps an eagle could intercept and damage a prop of a larger drone.
About the same time as the Eagle Scout programs, there were some EMP weapons being tested.
These were much smaller than would probably be needed now.
What we need are Peregrine drone hunters – high speed drone armed with lasers, EMP weapons, nets, prop fouling gear, etc to intercept and ground suspect drones.
But yeah, 'till then let's blast 'em all outta the sky and fk all where debris rains.
I am that Masked Man.
All you can do, is all you can do.
There’s trouble — it's time to play the sound of my people.
Your boos mean nothing to me, I've seen what you cheer for.
Insisting on your rights without acknowledging your responsibilities isn’t freedom, it’s adolescence.
I've been to the edge of the map, and there be monsters.
We are a government of laws, not men.
Everybody counts or nobody counts.
When a good man is hurt,
all who would be called good
must suffer with him.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning
We will remember them.
You and I have memories longer than the road that stretches out ahead.
There is no safety for honest men except
by believing all possible evil of evil men.
We don’t do focus groups. They just ensure that you don’t offend anyone, and produce bland inoffensive products. —Sir Jonathan Ive
An armed society is a polite society.
And hope is a lousy defense.
You make me pull, I'll put you down.
I *love* SIGs. It's Glocks I hate.
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 10/14/2024 10:24PM by RAMd®d.
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