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2021-12-20 Science & Technology
Harassment Of Navy Destroyers By Mysterious Drone Swarms Off California Went On For Weeks
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Posted by Woodrow 2021-12-20 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11131 views ]  Top

#1 Banging the drums of war. Are you gonna fall for it again?
Posted by Clulet Splat5443 2021-12-20 03:42||   2021-12-20 03:42|| Front Page Top

#2 Possibly smugglers (human or otherwise) checking for any 'impediments' to their planned routes.

Or 'Catalina Defense Force' holdouts.
Posted by Mullah Richard 2021-12-20 08:19||   2021-12-20 08:19|| Front Page Top

#3 Well. If US ELINT couldn't trace it, there's a problem. If US ELINT could trace it and nothing was done about it... there's a problem.
Posted by M. Murcek 2021-12-20 08:21||   2021-12-20 08:21|| Front Page Top

#4 Well, if there's a problem, obfuscation and 'redaction' is their friend.
Posted by Mullah Richard 2021-12-20 09:26||   2021-12-20 09:26|| Front Page Top

#5 Want to control a swarm of drones? There’s an app for that
Posted by Skidmark 2021-12-20 10:15||   2021-12-20 10:15|| Front Page Top

#6 IAI releases, MultiFlyer, a fleet of non-combat drones
Posted by Skidmark 2021-12-20 10:19||   2021-12-20 10:19|| Front Page Top

#7 So, a destroyer with a special crew of drone spotters onboard, while on exercises off the California coast, sees drones approaching the vessel.
Sounds like that was the whole point of the exercise.
Posted by ed in texas 2021-12-20 10:40||   2021-12-20 10:40|| Front Page Top

#8 That could be too, Ed.

Don't tell the others and use their reactions for evaluation and/or training.

In between the Diversity and Self-Humiliation Classes, of course.
Posted by Mullah Richard 2021-12-20 12:06||   2021-12-20 12:06|| Front Page Top

#9 
Posted by Greng Black3494 2021-12-20 14:38||   2021-12-20 14:38|| Front Page Top

#10 Shoot some down, recover them and then see if they can't be identified and traced.
Posted by San Fran Nan with a turban 2021-12-20 15:51||   2021-12-20 15:51|| Front Page Top

#11 Shoot some down,

What's the season and bag limit?
Posted by Glenmore 2021-12-20 15:54||   2021-12-20 15:54|| Front Page Top

#12 Seems to me they could turn their fire control radars on the drones. Fire control radars are used to guide the anti-air missiles to their targets. Since the missiles can go hundreds of miles, the radars are powerful enough to reach that far.
At close range (1-2 miles), the radar beam should be able to completely fry any electronics in the drone.
Posted by Rambler in Virginia 2021-12-20 18:34||   2021-12-20 18:34|| Front Page Top

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