October 19, 2024
The drones are coming, the drones are coming!
By Mike McDaniel
If you think you’re disgusted with our military and political “leaders,” you aren’t nearly disgusted enough. It turns out the Chinese balloon overflight of some of our most sensitive military installations was only the tip of what appears to be a planet-sized iceberg:
For several nights, military personnel had reported a mysterious breach of restricted airspace over a stretch of land that has one of the largest concentrations of national-security facilities in the U.S. The show usually starts 45 minutes to an hour after sunset, another senior leader told [USAF General Mark] Kelly.
The first drone arrived shortly. Kelly, a career fighter pilot, estimated it was roughly 20 feet long and flying at more than 100 miles an hour, at an altitude of roughly 3,000 to 4,000 feet. Other drones followed, one by one, sounding in the distance like a parade of lawn mowers.
The drones headed south, across Chesapeake Bay, toward Norfolk, Va., and over an area that includes the home base for the Navy’s SEAL Team Six and Naval Station Norfolk, the world’s largest naval port.
Drones of that size with those speed and altitude capabilities aren’t for sale at the local WalMart. The article doesn’t say, but that kind of performance isn’t possible or practical with batteries, so the drones—“a parade of lawn mowers”-- were certainly fueled and propeller driven. The article also doesn’t say whether the USAF made any attempt to intercept or track the drones, and at those altitudes, they would surely have been visible to radar unless they were stealthed, in which case we know they weren’t civilian, hobbyist drones, and since they were seen and heard, they weren’t stealthy.
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https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2024/10/the_drones_are_coming_the_drones_are_coming.html
