NFR Do you believe?
- Thread starter Billy
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Or the start of a Stephen King novel…
No need to worry. Many of the drones are large and have strobe lights showing that they are a commercial product. They do not need ground-based pilots either. It is all AI based and just a marketing ploy to get them sold quickly once they are publicly available on the market.
He who smelt it dealt it......
If kids with toys has stumped the government for almost a month I want my share of the defense budget back...
Plenty of people stump the government every April 15th.
The drones you need to worry about are the ones that you don't see, not the ones that are lit up for everyone to see. Pretty hard to be stealthy and nefarious when you're advertising your presence with glowing lights.
Get a chopper dragging a big drift net, then round up the kids and put 'em in Juvie.
wanderingrichard
Life of the Party
Such a great way to support the idea of multi generational ships
. By the time we got there, IF we got there, would we even be the same species ? 
wanderingrichard
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wanderingrichard
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Well, the Ukrainians are using Cessna 182 type aircraft as one way attack drones, (see youtube for videos)so, ok, that size is possible. We also have the global hawks, fire bees, and others that the size of small standard aircraft.
So I really don't get the spazzing over size...
To me, 2024 is the year people in New Jersey learned to look UP
That doesn’t look like NC to me. Look at the sweatshirt. More like Kentucky. Somewhere north of Lexington most likely.
Trout Trekker
Steelhead
Archival photo from a North Las Vegas junk yard.
Even a small unlicensed consumer grade drone hovering outside Your house wouldn't give You any cause for concern?
Heavy lift multi-rotor (or fixed wing VTOL) drones the size of an SUV cost $50K+, are not in use by the general public, and require an FAA license.
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But I do find the fact that these sightings are using FAA required anti-collision lights is most curious.
I would think that pilots with hostile intentions would NOT use lights, and would strike while they have the element of surprise rather than thrusting a stick into a Murder Hornets nest to cause the furor it already has that could and probably will get new domestic drone technologies and coutermeasures deployed in the US.
Plus the fact that local and state agencies are crying out for answers, but there is a general lack of DoD concern even though they (say they) don't have any answers...
Is this a Sputnik style funding campaign that had DoD and NASA rolling in cash for two decades?
Or some kind of a "red code" exercise to test current drone detection and countermeasures? (fun times at "Red Flag")
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