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Re: Mystery drones swarm US Military base

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Post by HarHarVeryFunny »

netsharc wrote: post #6

The archive link https://archive.is/bDYTD has the title "Mystery Drones...". Where does the "UFOs" come, an old title, or OP editorializing? Sadly "UFO", although maybe factually correct (an object which flies and is unidentifiable), attracts the attention of the loud and uneducated, who believe alien civilizations visit this planet, and confirmation biases themselves into the faith.

If it's a drone, then it's not unidentified - it's a drone. Do we need make/model and owner to call it identified? Maybe birds should be called UFOs too, unless we can identify the species?

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Post by pphysch »

shadowpho wrote: post #3

Likely China… they have the interest in finding out, interest in probing and large technology in drones

It's vastly more likely that it was a classified US military-intelligence operation/test than a foreign actor operating freely in deepest CIA territory.

But threat inflation = bigger budgets.

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Post by gremlinsinc »

OutOfHere wrote: post #14

In a real war, these drones would be causing explosions when they hit their target. The US has EMF technology to remotely take down an entire swarm of drones approaching the base. It doesn't make sense to not use it.

yeah it does because EMF could take out a lot more than just the drones including airplanes that are flying commercial paths up higher, or cell towers, etc.

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Post by krapp »

pphysch wrote: post #13
shadowpho wrote: post #3

Likely China… they have the interest in finding out, interest in probing and large technology in drones

It's vastly more likely that it was a classified US military-intelligence operation/test than a foreign actor operating freely in deepest CIA territory. But threat inflation = bigger budgets.

I don't think the American military industrial complex needs to resort to goofy tricks like this to get money.

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Post by mcphage »

krapp wrote: post #17
pphysch wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's vastly more likely that it was a classified US military-intelligence operation/test than a foreign actor operating freely in deepest CIA territory. But threat inflation = bigger budgets.

I don't think the American military industrial complex needs to resort to goofy tricks like this to get money.

From the government as a whole? No. But for some specific department to get funding over others? Yeah, probably that sort of jockeying for funds happens all the time.

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Post by krapp »

mcphage wrote: post #18
krapp wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't think the American military industrial complex needs to resort to goofy tricks like this to get money.

From the government as a whole? No. But for some specific department to get funding over others? Yeah, probably that sort of jockeying for funds happens all the time.

Even then, I don't think they would need to create a fleet of drones to buzz around military bases to scare up a pretext for more funding. That's comic book logic.
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