Since the map only shows events near coasts these drones could be submarine deployed...

Very good point. Don't need to get your bags past Customs then.

They're probably not narcotrafficker UAV's, which would be more profitably deployed delivering powdered donut remnants.

I wonder if they'll move training areas inland to the Dakotas or Montana to make it harder for coastally-deployed UFOs

How long until the first fully autonomous anti-drone drones are developed?

We could call them Hunter/Killers.

They're already available, and have been for years.

Once those are developed, anti-anti-drone drones won't be far behind

I think it would be more safe to make them only partially autonomous. Better to have them centrally contolled by some network in the cloud. But as "cloud" is an overused term, let's call it something different .. Skynet has a nice ring to it, doesn't it?

They've been there for at least a decade.

It could just be secret drone program(s) that aren't disclosed to the rest of the air force.

Or the availability of inexpensive commercial drones may correlate with the trend they are describing. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/air-space-magazine/keep-your-...

1 Are we seeing them in those areas because that’s where they are or because that’s where there is a large number of trained pilots + sensors?

2 Why are there so many types (and different colors too)?

3 Why would an (earthly) adversary risk a major diplomatic incident by sending their drones to the US like this?