Drones?

[Jiffy]

What about all the ones that followed the coast guard? 12-30 small car sized is what they said. Average hicks with tascos?

 

[Allen]

Perhaps you need to get a grip, I don't think you have a clue as to what is going just like the rest of us and your other post you thought you had the answers for and where dead wrong. Lighten up Francis.

Perhaps, but I am not the one failing to use a discerning eye before posting things.

You've gone from some bogus BS about Area 51 to using a standard reauthorization of a relatively boring federal agency in a very short amount of time in your search of the big bad bogeyman.

 

[Allen]

What about all the ones that followed the coast guard? 12-30 small car sized is what they said. Average hicks with tascos?

Night time estimates of distance, hence we're going to see some impressive ground shrinkage when one starts to put a tape measure to them.

I'm just not seeing convincing size estimates in the pics and vids I've watched.

 

[Jiffy]

Don’t you think we would have one on the ground already to measure (among other things) if we were going to do it? Or maybe they HAVE and don’t want to tell us? Our government would never lie to us “for our own good”.

Can you imagine the utter pandemonium that would become the east coast if they said ANYTHING other than what they are right now?

I’m a monkey’s uncle if they end up from Best Buy.

 

[Allen]

I have to think the Iranians and Chinese are already laughing their collective asses off over this. First it's the Iranian mothership off the east coast, satellite imagery already has proven that there's no mothership over there. Then there's the "hey look, another Chinese spy using a drone" article.

I really don't know the details on this but that Temecula video of a number of drones flying around at night was kind of telling. It looked to me about like what I would expect, about half a dozen people were illegally flying some higher end drones over a populated area on what they thought was a good night to fly (guessing not much wind). I'd also guess they are launching them off of their apartment building rooftops.

A drone the size of a car makes noise, lots of "they make no noise" claims also. Well, we've all been on a given lake and with just a slight breeze we can hear people talking well over a mile away. Turn that slight breeze the other way and you hear nothing.

Until such time as the drones appear to be threatening in nature, I just can't imagine a federal agency (FAA, etc) or the U.S. military are going to down one by any method over a populated area. It might fall on some little old lady's head who is out walking her _____ doodle, or the outdoor patio at a Joe's Crab Shack.

I suppose with the advent of commercially available drones that are large enough to strap a small explosive, it could be ISIS or Al Quaida, making a dry run. But at the same time, it seems weird that they'd advertise their presence by following a Coast Guard vessel.

 

[Jiffy]

I guarantee we have one.

Nobody is saying that though, for whatever reason.

 

[NodakBob]

A friend has a phone app that identifies aircraft above him at night by taking a picture of the sky…has to be clear sky. He said it only identifies aircraft with a registered flight path. You would think someone else on the east coast would have that app and use it…

 

[Rowdie]

It could be some guys that have the knowhow to make their own drones. They could just be fkn with the FAA and everyone by continually flying them and causing havoc. These "guys" could be foreign adversaries that are testing us for terror attacks, or just some clowns messing with everyone.

 

[Jiffy]

Oh someone is definitely messing around!! As to what their motive is we the public are kept in the dark. I have no idea if it’s for nefarious reasons.

 

[Rowdie]

 

[Davey Crockett]

Could have started with one or two or a few rich hobby operators playing around and then a lot more hobbyist charged up their drones and joining in the fun I hope that's the case but it could also be an enemy building maps. The technology isn't that expensive but it's licensed but I'm guessing there are nerd hobbyist that could build a software program.

 

[Jiffy]

I have an honest question. Can one dude control 12-30 drones at once? I have no clue and really don’t care enough to do research.

Never mind, just watched Davey’s video. My bad..

 

[Davey Crockett]

I'm guessing technology to disable the lights on one are pretty simple so run out and play and disable the lights and fly home.

 

[Davey Crockett]

I have an honest question. Can one dude control 12-30 drones at once? I have no clue and really don’t care enough to do research.

1,000 and more drones can be controlled simultaneously with Drone Show Software. The licenses start with 20 drones. Drone Show Software features an in-built simulator that enables the demonstration of the planned show choreography to investors, event directors, and key decision-makers.

 

[Davey Crockett]

Almost as simple as GPS in a boat , map a path to your hotspots with one boat and you could download that map to as many boats as you want.
Same way they teach robots. Teach one robot something and download into as many others as they want to. AI is incredible and spooky at the same time.

 

[Allen]

Could have started with one or two or a few rich hobby operators playing around and then a lot more hobbyist charged up their drones and joining in the fun I hope that's the case but it could also be an enemy building maps. The technology isn't that expensive but it's licensed but I'm guessing there are nerd hobbyist that could build a software program.

I've thought the same thing. We have RC flying clubs all over this country. Some of them have to have gone over to drones, and I'd think drone flying clubs are getting pretty common in bigger cities, but that's just a guess.

I've looked for commercially available "car-sized" hobby drones in the quadcopter configuration with not much luck. You can find some advertised with a 70-80 minute flight time, but also can't find any with a range of more than just a few (less than 10) miles.

 

[bravo]

Thing is now with all the hysteria everyone out there wants to see drones, taking legitimacy away from actual sightings. Not to mention pranksters are going to be flying just to create confusion. This craft below was filmed and reported all over social media as a spy drone, all the while it was a civilian plane performing LiDAR surveys:

My personal thought it that it likely started with some legit mystery drones that are possibly nefarious, who knows. Spy drones however would probably not the ones with bright white or red/green lights. I believe it’s even less likely that the US Navy allowed an Iranian ship to park off our coast and launch drones completely undetected.

 

[Davey Crockett]

Modern radar systems and RF radar can track and detect drones effectively according to google. It should be as easy as following them and map out the landing sites.

 

[Rowdie]

I have an honest question. Can one dude control 12-30 drones at once? I have no clue and really don’t care enough to do research.

Never mind, just watched Davey’s video. My bad..

Yes, they can be pre-programed. They put on huger airshows with them. So I'm guessing they could be using AI to pilot themselves and are learning how to evade and carry out programming each time they are launched.

 

[Jiffy]

Most of these aren’t on any pre planned flight path. Or at least that’s what I’m hearing