Mystery drones swarm US Military base

https://www.wsj.com/politics/national-security/drones-military-pentagon-defense-331871f4

by jseip • 2 years ago

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sudoaptinstall• 2 years ago

Archive link https://archive.is/bDYTD

shadowpho• 2 years ago

Likely China… they have the interest in finding out, interest in probing and large technology in drones

pphysch2• 2 years ago

It's vastly more likely that it was a classified US military-intelligence operation/test than a foreign actor operating freely in deepest CIA territory.

But threat inflation = bigger budgets.

krapp2• 2 years ago

I don't think the American military industrial complex needs to resort to goofy tricks like this to get money.

kcplate• 2 years ago

There is no doubt in my mind whenever I hear about these things or “tic tacs” and the like that it’s probably one agency testing new tech on another.

Whether or not it’s used for budget inflation, who knows. Looking at the backchannel communications and reactions has value. If you can fool the best military in the world, you can fool the next best too.

fyrn_• 2 years ago

We can't leagally shoot down drones flying over military bases? Can really tell that law was written before the Ukraine war..

simmerup• 2 years ago

Not only that, but the article alleges that they couldn't catch the drones either

Begs belief, some information must be getting caught by a classification here

technothrasher• 2 years ago

Begs belief

I believe the term you were looking for is "beggars belief".

HarHarVeryFunny2• 2 years ago

Does seem a bizarre restriction. I assume this is restricted airspace. Anything unpiloted should be fair game to be shot down.

netsharc• 2 years ago

The archive link https://archive.is/bDYTD has the title "Mystery Drones...". Where does the "UFOs" come, an old title, or OP editorializing?

Sadly "UFO", although maybe factually correct (an object which flies and is unidentifiable), attracts the attention of the loud and uneducated, who believe alien civilizations visit this planet, and confirmation biases themselves into the faith.

iwaztomack• 2 years ago

There's a conspiracy among techies growing like ivy: that UFO == aliens, and that the US gov't is in cahoots, or being attacked by them. It's SO weird to see this spread among self-described critical thinkers. Probably why the change.

HarHarVeryFunny2• 2 years ago

If it's a drone, then it's not unidentified - it's a drone. Do we need make/model and owner to call it identified? Maybe birds should be called UFOs too, unless we can identify the species?

diwank• 2 years ago

Title should be changed from UFOs to drones (which is the actual title of the article)

downvotetruth• 2 years ago

Think of the bees! Dupe https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41826380

sebazzz• 2 years ago

On X a community note would read:

    NNN - An UFO is a valid designation for a drone

OutOfHere• 2 years ago

In a real war, these drones would be causing explosions when they hit their target.

The US has EMF technology to remotely take down an entire swarm of drones approaching the base. It doesn't make sense to not use it.

gremlinsinc• 2 years ago

yeah it does because EMF could take out a lot more than just the drones including airplanes that are flying commercial paths up higher, or cell towers, etc.

Mystery drones swarm US Military base

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