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Re:Drone Incursions Closed Wright Patterson Air Force Base's... by AnimalMuppet on Monday December 16, 2024 @09:02AM (#42431025)
So let me see if I've got this right. You can fly drones over a US air force base and shut it down. This lets you conduct a DOS attack on the base. You can also get to a place where if the drones contained munitions they would be very difficult to stop before they did their damage, but nobody is authorized to stop it.

Also, if I understand correctly, Wright Patt is a place where they experiment with new radars and stuff. But they couldn't track the drones to see where they came from or where they went. (Or didn't - it might be deliberate strategy to not turn on the fancy toys while the drones are there to monitor.)

All in all, I have a hard time buying all this. In a world of Russian hybrid warfare, in a world of China gearing up to at least be able to invade Taiwan, in a world of Iran still trying to find ways to pay the US back for the death of Sulameini, in a world with North Korea being willing to do just about anything, doing nothing about all this would be somewhere between incredibly gross negligence and active treason.

I consider it more likely that someone (US military and/or intelligence) at least knows exactly what is going on, and likely is doing it themselves. They just aren't talking about it.

Re:Drone Incursions Closed Wright Patterson Air Force Base's... by brokenmachine on Monday December 16, 2024 @10:33PM (#42438084)
>All in all, I have a hard time buying all this.

You might, but if there's anything 2020-24 has taught us, the target audience is definitely going to be stupid enough to believe whatever the narrative becomes, probably "we need such-and-such extra powers and funding".