Absolutely nothing that has happened in terms of drones over US bases is a surprise. The DoD and other agencies totally failed on this and my team have documented this in extreme detail for a decade+.
Thank you 60 Minutes for giving us the credit we deserve.
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It took Langley AFB to get invaded for them to really wake up (and we broke the Langley story just like all the other incursion stories, but it was later stolen/repackaged without credit by WSJ months later). This should be very alarming and troubling.
We have more coming on what can be done. The problem is about to get far more complex as well. For a primer on what I mean by this, read:
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I also think the 60 Minutes piece was an excellent introduction to this topic. They did a great job in not a lot of time. Really no notes there. I am sure there will be more coming.
For additional reading. Critical background:
These are just some of the major points along the way. Hundreds of articles. Also all these predate the Chinese balloon and the final confession that we have a huge air domain awareness gap as we have been warning of for years.
This is the latest on where this sits for homeland defense as of now. Things are moving congressionally and in the halls of the Pentagon in the last few months, which is very good to see. Once again, we have more coming including some solutions.
Forgot to put the original Langley AFB incursions story in here. Crazy one year ago nearly to the day:
The beginning of it all for the New Jersey drone craze:
Would be good for you guys to do a SWAT analysis on cUAS opportunity of all the various platforms etc
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