I must admit that I wasn’t looking up. I didn’t pay much attention to the happenings in the sky. Going about my business and assuming nothing. Airplanes, helicopters and blinky lights are known to fly by in the area. I got a text from a neighbor asking me if I was looking out the window and seeing all the drones. I got up and went outside and looked around and there they were, a fleet of these things floating in the air lit up with white, red, green and blue lights.
At first, I didn’t think much of it. Could be a lot of things and there shouldn’t be anything to be concerned about. I messaged him back and told him what I thought it “could be.” The next few days, I observed patterns of these machines flying around. I pulled some information from a few data points on drone technical and operational “observable behavior.”
Over the past week, I traveled through the area going places I would normally go. There are drones everywhere. They are large, the size of a refrigerator to the size of a small car. I have not seen them move quickly. They seem to move in patterns that support surveillance or monitoring. They are operating from a few thousand feet high up to much higher elevation. The stay in one place for long periods of time or seemingly float in a very small radius.
I haven’t been overly concerned about it until I watched the government talk about it. If I were standing in a random place on the flight path of an aircraft and I used a laser to point it at the craft, they would track me down, come to my home and arrest me. There are swarms of these aircraft floating around the sky and they “don’t know.”
If you do any homework on this technology, you quickly realize that your “right to bear arms” is being violated. Let me explain here. The second amendment could not have accounted for electronic weapons but the premise that someone or something is invading a place and space must be accounted for.
I know what is flying over my home and frightening my family. I know and can see with my own eyes what is disrupting life in my area. Cars pulling over, people are frightened. The government answer is “nothing to see here, move along.”
The current law on counter measures is very clear, there is literally nothing a citizen can do legally to defend themselves against a threat. It makes me wonder now, if we were invaded by a foreign country and they used drones, how would one legally defend themselves?
I’ve come to the conclusion that it doesn’t matter what it is. It doesn’t matter if this is a government program or a commercial contractor or other. What does matter is that we the people have no right to defend ourselves from a threat of this nature. Warfighting has changed and the days of firing handheld guns are shifting. If we constructed weapons which produced electromagnetic pulses, lasers, jamming or other, we would be arrested. These are exactly the types of weapons required to fight the new world threats.
The government can see if I have a pen laser, they would show up at my house and arrest me but they wouldn’t worry if I have a 45 because?
We have work to do.. and based on what I am seeing here in real life, I don’t know what kind of time we have as the future of warfighting and the threat upon us is here and now.
There is so many questions about these UAV that we don’t know. Why and who is doing ISR on our soil and are these weaponized drones, etc? Who is doing the uplinking and downlinking of these vehicles? What is the purpose and more importantly what is the intent? We are left in the dark and maybe our own government doesn’t know…however they should. Did we know about the balloons that flew over our country or was it until the public noticed them. We are all told to be vigilant but why are we in the dark?