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I'm trying to think of an adversarial country with particular expertise in drone flight, but I am coming up blank... anyone else?
what do you think is going on here? Sounds like they need some Anduril anti-drone defense systems.
We have the technology to deal with this. We just don't have leadership with imagination to deal with it. Dealing with drones is a good job for good pheasant hunters.
All the fan boys for UKR drones forget we developed the GPS guided bomb at McDonnell Douglas in 1990. Then Small Diameter bomb in late 90s. It was obvious to us they would keep getting smaller and more mobile. In the late 90s we developed the force protection concepts against
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Drone jamming guns exist. Selective GPS jamming also exists. Selective 4G/5G jamming also exists. Seems like this could be dealt with if it had to be... so why isn't it?
But, more importantly: they didn't shoot them down, even though they were flying over restricted airspace?! 
lol... It's 2024 and the 5 cornered square says they don't know what they are... they know.
I'll bet you they are cooking on tech implemented long ago that could tell a fly on your ass from orbit, but they don't want to fan the flames of war because Big Factory and Canada XL
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How is this even possible in whatโs supposed to be the most powerful country on Earth? A military baseโreally?
And they showed up again last night!
Similar incursions in August in Palmdale too, over Skunkworks:
Haven't seen much of that in the news, so probably not as bad as a balloon.
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And yet a Cessna doofus flies over the white house and five F16s are scrambled to yell at the kid and threaten with a shoot down. Unlike that, this is clear intent at war espionage.