GILLIAN RICH
At an Air Force Association breakfast Tuesday, Gen. Mike Holmes, commander of Air Combat Command, said a pilot in a Lockheed Martin (LMT) F-22 had a "near collision with a small UAS" while trying to land. He said that a hobbyist was most likely flying the unmanned aerial system, but warned "you never know."
"Imagine a world where somebody flies a couple hundred of those and flies one down the intake of my F-22s with just a small weapon on it," he said.
In April, the Federal Aviation Administration banned drone flight over 133 military bases, and Holmes said there are signs around bases that say it's a "no-drone area."
But that has done little to stop drones from wandering into military airspace. Holmes said that in a separate incident last week, a drone flew over a gate at another base.
Drones made headlines last month after a U.S. Boeing (BA) F-15E fighter shot down an Iranian-built drone in Syria.
But Holmes has no real authority to deal with errant drones at home;
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