By Bob Walsh
If you watch or listen to any legacy media news at all
you will now there have been large numbers of good size drones flitting
around the east coast the last few days. They are apparently fairly
smart, or well directed. They show up in the early evening and go dark
when they are approached by other aircraft. Nobody seems to know where
they are from or what they are doing. (At least nobody who is talking.)
My
own personal WAG, for what that might be worth to you, is that they are
coming from a ship outside the 12-mile limit and they are Russian, or
Iranian, or ChiCom. They are both looking around and testing our
willingness and ability to respond to them. So far, whoever is
operating them is apparently doing so with impunity.
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There is a little known U.S. Federal Agency that has been experimenting with drones for years. (Shhhh.)
DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) has developed several drones, including:
Amber: DARPA's first medium-sized endurance unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), which led to the Gnat 750 UAV and the Air Force's Predator UAV
Manta Ray: A multi-phase program that demonstrates critical technologies at sea
Vulture: A program that aims to develop technologies that allow an airborne payload to remain on-station for more than five years
DARPA's systems engineering approach is used to define demonstration system objectives and identify enabling technologies for future systems.
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