Adversary Drones Are Spying on the U.S. and The Pentagon Acts Like They’re UFOs

Re:Adversary Drones Are Spying on the U.S. and The Pentagon ... by AnimalMuppet on Monday February 06, 2023 @06:38PM (#34686214)

I know that the Soviets had radars that were not normally on - they were only on when defending against an incursion or attack. I do not know, but I wouldn't be surprised if the US also had such radars.

If they're here to try to assess our air defense network, then a reasonable response is don't turn it on. Don't turn on the best radars. Don't turn on the data links from the air combat control centers to the air force bases (or to the planes in the air).

Sure, they can see the vanilla stuff better than they can from a satellite. But if the good stuff is off, they don't find out much about it.

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Re:Adversary Drones Are Spying on the U.S. and The Pentagon ... by crazygringo on Monday February 06, 2023 @06:40PM (#34686236)

You need to turn that stuff on in order to test it though. To run drills and exercises and make sure people are using it correctly and build experience with it. No?

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Re:Adversary Drones Are Spying on the U.S. and The Pentagon ... by AnimalMuppet on Monday February 06, 2023 @08:24PM (#34687236)

Of course. But you don't need to run those drills while there's a foreign surveillance drone in the neighborhood.

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Re:Adversary Drones Are Spying on the U.S. and The Pentagon ... by justsomehnguy on Monday February 06, 2023 @10:57PM (#34688586)

Search and acquisition radars. Or, most of the time, the same radars as always but with a lot more power. But more power => more noise for the neighbours, more heat, less operating time, yada-yada.

> don't turn it on

There is no need to? It was detected long ago and was followed both with radio and visually.

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