Multiple Destroyers Were Swarmed By Mysterious
'Drones' Off California Over Numerous Nights
The Drive,
by
Adam Kehoe
&
Mark Cecotti
Original Article
Posted By: Dreadnought,
3/24/2021 11:31:47 AM
In July of 2019, a truly bizarre series of events unfolded around California’s Channel Islands. Over a number of days, groups of unidentified aircraft, which the U.S. Navy simply refers to as ‘drones’ or 'UAVs,' pursued that service's vessels, prompting a high-level investigation.
During the evening encounters, as many as six aircraft were reported swarming around the ships at once. The drones were described as flying for prolonged periods in low-visibility conditions, and performing brazen maneuvers over the Navy warships near a sensitive military training range less than 100 miles off Los Angeles. The ensuing investigation included elements of the Navy, Coast Guard, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).
Reply 1 - Posted by:
Proud Texan 3/24/2021 11:35:20 AM (No. 733731)
The FBI will blame the white nationalists mermaids.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
3XALADY 3/24/2021 11:46:26 AM (No. 733742)
Chy-na? Do they know how to fly drones?
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Thos Weatherby 3/24/2021 11:50:14 AM (No. 733744)
We also had sub hunters (P3's) looking for submarines. The drones can be carried by enemy subs.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
PChristopher 3/24/2021 11:56:14 AM (No. 733750)
Very dangerous stuff....glad we're spending money on essential stuff like abortions in Africa instead of trivial stuff like weapons development
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
hershey 3/24/2021 11:56:25 AM (No. 733752)
I thought they were equipped with Ageis and machine guns...what, the Pentagon didn't want them to shoot???
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Clinger 3/24/2021 12:04:01 PM (No. 733761)
I'm becoming more and more concerned that all this UFO talk is actually a sign that out enemies have stolen the march on us. I used to take some solace in my belief that we always had some secret squirrel crap going on keeping us one step ahead. After the way Hillary sold our hypersonic missile technology and both Russia and China out performed us in development, I no longer live under that delusion. We have NO secrets. Our belief that we do allows us to take our sweet time with the effective deployment meanwhile our enemies know they have a small window of time to beat us with our own technology and go like a bat out of Wuhon.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Zeek Wolfe 3/24/2021 12:09:31 PM (No. 733765)
Drones? If they are small and close, get out the shotguns. Bigger and farther away, a .30 machine gun will do the trick. The navy when confronted by a swarm of drones? We need to investigate and consult Washington about what to do, keeping firmly in mind that politically correct thinking vis a vis race, trans-gender. Islamophobia and homophobia issues are considered. National security? Get on the hotline to Shumer, Pelosi and the MSM. Franklin Roosevelt did not consult the MSM after Pearl Harbor. What a terrible president, but like Pelosi, he liked icecream from a big freezer so all was not lost.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
chance_232 3/24/2021 12:16:53 PM (No. 733773)
These are not the kind of drones that John Q public operates. To fly for hours 100 miles offshore implies some governmental or commercial operation.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
DVC 3/24/2021 12:19:50 PM (No. 733777)
Pretty clearly the USN needs an effective antidrone weapons system. I'm thinking that the laser systems that they have been testing would be good for this. Should be able to fry a drone pretty quickly, or at least incinerate any optical devices on board in a second or two with a good high powered laser.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
DVC 3/24/2021 1:08:08 PM (No. 733819)
The Phalanx CIWS should be able to deal with at least some of the drones, although, depending on their size, radar or optical tracking may be difficult. Getting "weapons free" approval off of the California coast would be a whole different things without an actual attack.
Here is an unclassified USN report studying how to deal with this problem. The Navy has been researching this. This report is from 2012, so they were looking ahead back then.
This report indicates that adding more Close In Weapons Systems (Phalanx) is the most effective approach that they studied, but still, an 8 UAV attack simulation would result in 2.5 UAV impacts on the destroyer. Not good enough, IMO, but better than nothing. Traitor Joe and UpChuck Schumer will probably not fund anything like this, of course.
Here is the report if you are interested:
https://apps.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/a573999.pdf
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Venturer 3/24/2021 1:36:30 PM (No. 733864)
Shoot them down.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
LeeBertie 3/24/2021 3:28:59 PM (No. 733957)
Not saying they didn't, but couldn't the ships involved have tracked the objects' departures from the area to determine where they went or at the very least the direction they departed in?
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
DVC 3/24/2021 7:45:11 PM (No. 734172)
#12, depending on the size and material of these 'drones' or UFOs or whatever, the radar return may be very, very small. And in any case, the radar horizon could be as short as 6-10 miles if they are flying very low to the water, even if they had excellent radar reflectivity.
A mostly plastic drone could have radar signature similar to a seagull or pelican.....and be specifically filtered out to avoid massive clutter on the radar screens, although I'm not certain what level of decluttering they use, certainly it has to be something to remove these 'spurious' returns on a normal day.
All sorts of issues tracking very small non-metallic or 'small percentage metallic' objects with radar. Not that it can't be done, but it is NOT what our radar systems have been designed and optimized for. Our military systems have been designed to see targets at very long range, 10s to 100s of miles and generally fairly large targets. It may mean that a new class of small, specialized sensors (radar, optical?) need to be developed and installed ASAP. Laser systems should be able to destroy them pretty easily, but are still in their infancy, although they have been deployed on a few ships and have shot down various missiles and drones in testing, and destroyed small boats, too.
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