That's Not a Drone!

[Ivan Seeking]

I think the drones of interest are the ones that hover over critical infrastructure and military bases, and act evasively.

Ghassali, the Montvale mayor, said law enforcement said in the briefing the drones sometimes appear to fly in a coordinated pattern and can sometimes be in flight for up to six hours.

The drones primarily operate at night, often displaying flashing lights, but they turn off the lights and evade police helicopters when approached, Mayor Michael Melham of Belleville Township said in a Facebook video update on Wednesday.

https://www.cnn.com/2024/12/12/us/new-jersey-drone-sightings/index.html#:~:text=The drones primarily operate at,Facebook video update on Wednesday.

The red and green aviation lights on regular aircraft are easy to recognize.

The Pentagon spokesman only waved his hand and said, "These are not the drones you are looking for".

 

[BillTre]

Pretty soon (I predict) the military will have effective anti-drone weapons of various kinds. Ukraine has been developing and receiving them for several months now.
After the military gets these anti-drone weapons, they won't be flying around those bases very long.

 

[jtbell]

Drones run amok during a synchronized-drone show in Orlando, Florida:



A kid was hit in the chest by a drone and needed heart surgery as a result.

This involved just a few of the drones in the show, and presumably happened because of a programming error or some kind of random interference. But suppose someone figures out how to "hijack" a whole fleet of these drones. Updated version of Hitchcock's film The Birds, anyone?