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Mystery drones swarm US Military base
- sudoaptinstall 2y agoArchive link https://archive.is/bDYTD https://archive.is/bDYTD
- fyrn_ 2y agoWe can't leagally shoot down drones flying over military bases? Can really tell that law was written before the Ukraine war..
- simmerup 2y agoNot 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 2y ago> Begs belief I believe the term you were looking for is "beggars belief".
- HarHarVeryFunny 2y agoDoes seem a bizarre restriction. I assume this is restricted airspace. Anything unpiloted should be fair game to be shot down.
- shadowpho 2y agoLikely China… they have the interest in finding out, interest in probing and large technology in drones
- pphysch 2y agoIt'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.
- krapp 2y agoI don't think the American military industrial complex needs to resort to goofy tricks like this to get money.
- mcphage 2y agoFrom the government as a whole? No. But for some specific department to get funding over others? Yeah, probably that sort of jockeying for funds happens all the time.
- krapp 2y agoEven then, I don't think they would need to create a fleet of drones to buzz around military bases to scare up a pretext for more funding. That's comic book logic.
- pphysch 2y agoThat's not at all what's happening. I don't think the MIC invests heavily in producing false-flag events. But they do evidently invest heavily in PR and "think tank" activities to drum up support, including misconstruing harmless events as national security threats.
- kcplate 2y agoThere 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.
- netsharc 2y agoThe archive link https://archive.is/bDYTD 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 2y agoThere'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.
- HarHarVeryFunny 2y agoIf 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 2y agoTitle should be changed from UFOs to drones (which is the actual title of the article)
- downvotetruth 2y agoThink of the bees! Dupe https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41826380 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41826380
- sebazzz 2y agoOn X a community note would read: NNN - An UFO is a valid designation for a drone
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- OutOfHere 2y agoIn 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 2y agoyeah 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.
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