They can stop them, but they're not allowed to shot them out of the sky because the debris might "hurt someone on the ground". This kind of shit needs to stop. Shoot them down.
Then you are not paying attention. The USAF, Army, and Navy are ALWAYS concerned over any loss of life or aircraft. The possible damage can be terrible. Pilots have sometimes deliberately passed up an opportunity to eject in order to get their damaged aircraft headed in a safe direction.
Lots of different aerial objects. Even something as small as a light plane can causes serious damage falling out of the sky. Even frozen toilet flush from an airliner.
As for the Chinese balloon, the gondola was about the size of a school bus and would have caused serious damage and potential injury. Just as easy to shoot it down over water: no one harmed and easy recovery for analysis. What the bright people here fail to understand is that the U.S. military is accustomed to "cover up" when under view of Russian reconnaissance satellites, so it is no problem to do the same for a slow-moving object. The location and layout of military bases is already public knowledge through civil and private aviation. Allowing the balloon to operate provided an opportunity to listen to its remote radio reports and gather signals intelligence data. There is a very good chance we found out more about China than they did of us.
Chinese ballon: couldn't they have shot a small hole in the ballon, so it slowly leaked & descended safety, it was over open country at times. If I thought of this at the time so could have they. Those in control then is the key. jmo
Difficult to shoot a telling shot at a closing rate of 600 mph. And it turns out that the leakage rate is not so fast as for a party balloon in one's kitchen. These balloons are not pressurized. They ultimately shot it down with a missile. I did research studies on aerostats that could operate at 100,000 feet or so. That would be higher than any of our aircraft could fly, including U-2s. I'm thinking the most effective counter would be radioelectronic warfare (which we don't have).
Personally I think that the UAVs (which had aviation compliant lights on didn't they) were a white hat project.
I assume these white hat UAVs were there to grab the narrative over some planned deployment of cabal craft for a false flag "bluebeam" type project to stall the inauguration.
I wonder which side this General Guillot is on. Ours I guess.
Everything this guy said was so beyond embarrassing, he should be fired for even saying it out loud.
"Yeah so Chinese drones were flying all around the american homeland, but our eyes were over seas and rightfully so" like holy shit, this guys iq on how to answer a question should be studied.
So I guess he's saying they didn't detect them, so then they just ignored the video on CNN even though it was a potential national security threat ?
Maybe they should use some of the surveillance they're pointing inward at us citizens and redirect it outward for national defense. Just a crazy idea...
You are mixing together very different things: a balloon, which was well-detected, and small UAVs, which are hard to detect unless you happen to have a handy radar unit that can differentiate them from urban clutter.
With what? The folks in New Jersey gave it a try, and totally failed. No surprise. Very hard to hit a moving aerial target. Or do you want to take it out with a Singer missile and create wreckage and a hazard to anyone beneath? No problem in a battlefield, but a bad deal in a suburb or downtown in a city. This is an ideal application for a ground-based mobile laser system (currently under test), but we have only a handful at the moment. And you still have the problem that, left alone, they are a harmless pest, but shot down, they could kill someone. It's the same reason that police don't like to prosecute shoot-outs in large crowds: risk of collateral casualties.
But US military officials also indicated to reporters that the types of counter-drone capabilities the Pentagon may be able to bring to bear for domestic defense may be limited to non-kinetic “soft kill” means like RF and GPS signal jamming and other relatively low-tech interception techniques like nets and “string streamers” due to legal constraints on the US military’s ability to engage with drones over American soil.
They can stop them, but they're not allowed to shot them out of the sky because the debris might "hurt someone on the ground". This kind of shit needs to stop. Shoot them down.
Sounds like bullshit excuses.
It totally is. They said that they can't shoot any drone down. Absolute BS.
They don't seem very concerned about all of the planes and helicopters that have been crashing.
Then you are not paying attention. The USAF, Army, and Navy are ALWAYS concerned over any loss of life or aircraft. The possible damage can be terrible. Pilots have sometimes deliberately passed up an opportunity to eject in order to get their damaged aircraft headed in a safe direction.
Smells like it...💩💩💩💩💩
Fly over White House, Mar-a-Lago, Area 51, Groom Lake, S-4 & see what happens. No Fly Zones are off limits period.
Great point
You get a missile 'Rectumdectomy' like Trump said. 😮😵💫🤣
Rectum? 💩
Damned near kilt em 😆😆😆
Lots of different aerial objects. Even something as small as a light plane can causes serious damage falling out of the sky. Even frozen toilet flush from an airliner.
As for the Chinese balloon, the gondola was about the size of a school bus and would have caused serious damage and potential injury. Just as easy to shoot it down over water: no one harmed and easy recovery for analysis. What the bright people here fail to understand is that the U.S. military is accustomed to "cover up" when under view of Russian reconnaissance satellites, so it is no problem to do the same for a slow-moving object. The location and layout of military bases is already public knowledge through civil and private aviation. Allowing the balloon to operate provided an opportunity to listen to its remote radio reports and gather signals intelligence data. There is a very good chance we found out more about China than they did of us.
Chinese ballon: couldn't they have shot a small hole in the ballon, so it slowly leaked & descended safety, it was over open country at times. If I thought of this at the time so could have they. Those in control then is the key. jmo
Difficult to shoot a telling shot at a closing rate of 600 mph. And it turns out that the leakage rate is not so fast as for a party balloon in one's kitchen. These balloons are not pressurized. They ultimately shot it down with a missile. I did research studies on aerostats that could operate at 100,000 feet or so. That would be higher than any of our aircraft could fly, including U-2s. I'm thinking the most effective counter would be radioelectronic warfare (which we don't have).
Lasers
That is the thinnest cover story I've ever heard.
Personally I think that the UAVs (which had aviation compliant lights on didn't they) were a white hat project.
I assume these white hat UAVs were there to grab the narrative over some planned deployment of cabal craft for a false flag "bluebeam" type project to stall the inauguration.
I wonder which side this General Guillot is on. Ours I guess.
Couple that with this >>> https://www.fastcompany.com/91301211/dan-farah-interview-age-of-disclosure
You don't come out like this & not be a target, these whistleblowers are very suspicious to me. jmo
He says a lot of words, that don't really SAY anything. What SPECIFICALLY causes our inability to shoot them down, eh?
Everything this guy said was so beyond embarrassing, he should be fired for even saying it out loud.
"Yeah so Chinese drones were flying all around the american homeland, but our eyes were over seas and rightfully so" like holy shit, this guys iq on how to answer a question should be studied.
So I guess he's saying they didn't detect them, so then they just ignored the video on CNN even though it was a potential national security threat ?
Maybe they should use some of the surveillance they're pointing inward at us citizens and redirect it outward for national defense. Just a crazy idea...
You are mixing together very different things: a balloon, which was well-detected, and small UAVs, which are hard to detect unless you happen to have a handy radar unit that can differentiate them from urban clutter.
Maybe General Gregory Guillot needs to find some boxes so he can clean out his office.
DEI Military?
This is the kind of buffoonery that $800 Trillion taxpayer dollars/year, plus US Department of Education graduates running the US govt. buys.
But, I do appreciate his transparency. Open acknowledgement of a failure is the first step needed to correct the failure.
This is fake news lol we can easily shoot them down.
With what? The folks in New Jersey gave it a try, and totally failed. No surprise. Very hard to hit a moving aerial target. Or do you want to take it out with a Singer missile and create wreckage and a hazard to anyone beneath? No problem in a battlefield, but a bad deal in a suburb or downtown in a city. This is an ideal application for a ground-based mobile laser system (currently under test), but we have only a handful at the moment. And you still have the problem that, left alone, they are a harmless pest, but shot down, they could kill someone. It's the same reason that police don't like to prosecute shoot-outs in large crowds: risk of collateral casualties.
Sidewinder missile...easy. next
What about the balloons. There must be something to spray on and melt the balloon. Sounds like a wimpy excuse to me. Time for him to go?
We just need a kid with a really big magnifying glass.
At the balloon altitude, you pretty much need to fly at 600 mph in order to be airborne. Good luck trying to spray anything.
Depending on size, they see them, we have drones why can’t they pull them out of sky. You could some how net them.
Nice and if they self explode it should hopefully keep debris somewhat contained, depends on what is destroyed.
They're probably paid off by the Chinese.
https://www.wired.com/story/us-military-mystery-drones-response/
This ‘general’ believes his own bullshit.
Do you mean we can't protect two things at one time?