Unknown drone fleet breached US military base airspace in Virginia for 17 straight days: report

[shockedcanadian]

Errr, what is going on America?

Start hiring competent and serious people not incompetent politicized Yes Men. How could this occur in a nation like America? Was it China, Russia, Iran or N Korea?

Unknown drone fleet breached US military base airspace in Virginia for 17 straight days: report

An unknown fleet of unmanned aircraft swarmed Langley Air Force Base in Virginia for 17 consecutive days late last year, the Wall Street Journal reported.

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A mysterious fleet of drones entered restricted airspace and swarmed a U.S. military base along the Virginia coast for 17 days late last year, stumping the Pentagon, according to a new report.

For several nights last December, U.S. military personnel reported witnessing a fleet of unknown unmanned aircraft breach restricted airspace over a stretch of land at Langley Air Force Base along Virginia's shore, the Wall Street Journal first reported.

The drones would start to arrive about 45 minutes to an hour after sunset each night, one official reportedly told U.S. Air Force Gen. Mark Kelly, who joined several other officers responsible for the country's most advanced jet fighters, including F-22 Raptors, on a squadron rooftop.

 

[IM2]

Shut up canadian.

 

[skye]

China has been known to send balloons.....but

Who knows who could it be this time

 

[shockedcanadian]

Shut up canadian.

You should be encouraged that there are Canadians who care about your national security. You should demand the same of your domestic agencies.

 

[Manonthestreet]

Why didn't they down em? With the amount of enemy soldiers we've imported time to harden up and take aggressive action against crap like this.

 

[skye]

They still don't know from where do they come from, can you believe this? the are totally clueless...

They are just sitting there and watching....

 

[justoffal]

Errr, what is going on America?

Start hiring competent and serious people not incompetent politicized Yes Men. How could this occur in a nation like America? Was it China, Russia, Iran or N Korea?

Unknown drone fleet breached US military base airspace in Virginia for 17 straight days: report

An unknown fleet of unmanned aircraft swarmed Langley Air Force Base in Virginia for 17 consecutive days late last year, the Wall Street Journal reported.

www.foxnews.com

A mysterious fleet of drones entered restricted airspace and swarmed a U.S. military base along the Virginia coast for 17 days late last year, stumping the Pentagon, according to a new report.

For several nights last December, U.S. military personnel reported witnessing a fleet of unknown unmanned aircraft breach restricted airspace over a stretch of land at Langley Air Force Base along Virginia's shore, the Wall Street Journal first reported.

The drones would start to arrive about 45 minutes to an hour after sunset each night, one official reportedly told U.S. Air Force Gen. Mark Kelly, who joined several other officers responsible for the country's most advanced jet fighters, including F-22 Raptors, on a squadron rooftop.

They should have been shot down....

 

[Picaro]

Could have been our own, some unit running tests of equipment, stealth tech, detection methods, etc.

 

[Mushroom]

Could have been our own, some unit running tests of equipment, stealth tech, detection methods, etc.

Hell, that also would not surprise me. Especially as many simply do not understand military bases and "no fly zones".

Back in the 1980s, I was part of the security force on a high security military installation. And parodically for almost a year we had an ultralight that would do a "touch and go" in the highest security area of the base.

Now here is the thing about those aircraft, you do not actually need a pilot's license to fly one. You need no clearance from ATC or anything else. And I can guarantee almost none who pilot them have ever heard of a "Jeppesen" or other aviation chart that would indicate what areas are "no fly zones".

This joker did that for months, and it was frustrating for us as he would be gone long before we could respond. Until after almost a year one of the guards spotted him by luck at extreme range, so we were ready when he landed. And he saw himself surrounded with two dozen Marines with loaded M-16 rifles ordering him to shut it down immediately or we would fire.

His plane was impounded, and he was sent off to jail. And it turns out he had no idea we were a high security base, and that flying low over it (let alone landing on it) was illegal. He simply thought we were a farm, so saw nothing wrong with every week or so practicing landings once or twice then continuing on.

It would not surprise me if this was something similar. Say some local company working on drone clusters for mapping, surveillance, or something else. And as they are not actual pilots having no idea that what they are doing is illegal.

 

[Harpy Eagle]

Why didn't they down em? With the amount of enemy soldiers we've imported time to harden up and take aggressive action against crap like this.

just imagine the outcry had they taken them down and they fell on one of the houses close by the base.

They were 20 feet long and flying at more than 100 kilometres an hour, at an altitude of roughly 3,000 to 4,000 feet. While we could shot them down, there is no way to control where they land.

A 20 foot burning drone hitting the roof of a house could do a lot of damage.