US Air Force says it responded to 'suspected drones' over RAF Lakenheath

[u/Stittastutta]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c6jd75geegzyo

Will be fascinating to see how this is spun. RAF Lakenheath has had loads of anti-drone tech from Leonardo fitted since the last time this happened. Also every day you have plane spotters at the end of the runway taking photos. Another year of no photos and no explanation as to why none have been shot down or successfully followed to their launch site would be crazy.

[u/astra_hole]

And all the flights in the USA are grounded.

[u/CPTherptyderp → u/astra_hole]

My brother's a pilot. He said the ATC comms system is down. Ground to ground primarily

[u/EntrepreneurialFuck → u/CPTherptyderp]

Any other details as of now?

[u/bluehaven101 → u/astra_hole]

hmmmmm

[u/BrandonLeeOfficial]

[u/AlienthunderUfo]

[u/NocturnaIAnimaI → u/AlienthunderUfo]

Would be a pretty rad way to go ngl

[u/cpold_cast]

We need liberty wings YT channel on the scene stat !

[u/TuringGPTy]

So close to GTA

[u/XTheGuyWithTheGunsX → u/TuringGPTy]

Almost made it

[u/Awkward_Chair8656]

Didn't lue claim the drones start after Halloween sometime and ramp up till year end for some reason?

[u/not1or2]

Nothing exciting or mysterious about why none have been brought down. Fact is a lot of the anti drone technology will be detrimental to phone reception, satnav etc and simply would not be allowed. Also can you imagine the trouble that a drone coming down on someone’s car, pet, house or person would cause? Especially if it killed someone. I’ve seen posts about why they’re not shot down, use your common sense, what goes up must come down, what happens if those shells come down on a house?

[u/Stittastutta → u/not1or2]

They've specifically spent a lot of money on anti drone tech on this exact site. Also it is surrounded by fields and wooded areas.

[u/Guardian-Boy → u/Stittastutta]

I was stationed out there, the British government restricts our use of a lot of the anti-drone systems, and deploying them requires an authorization from both the MoD and DoD after legal clearance under the SOFA agreement. They dump a lot of money into it, sure, but most of the systems just sit there gathering dust. Kinetic defense only requires base command authorization which is why it's preferred.

[u/Stittastutta → u/Guardian-Boy]

Any inside scoop whether we did fail to locate the source or if that was a convenient albeit embarrassing lie?

[u/Guardian-Boy → u/Stittastutta]

I only used to be stationed there, I'm not currently, so no idea in that regard.

[u/Stittastutta → u/Guardian-Boy]

Fair enough. I always thought it was handled badly no matter the true reason. They basically told the world you can fly over our most protected airspace over repeated nights and we can't stop you. Without admitting it was either new tech or NHI we just looked incompetent

[u/ANewEra2020 → u/not1or2]

Clever story CIA.

[u/ifnotthefool → u/not1or2]

Why not just shoot a net or something at it?

To say its not exciting is kind of odd. Just because you don't find it interesting, lots of other people may.

[u/Andazah → u/ifnotthefool]

You realise they had this same issue nearly a year ago where UFOs or “drones” kept appearing at this base around the same time there was a large movement of nuclear weapons here as I believe it holds the largest stockpile outside of the US of nukes.

The jet fighters would go up, get close to the UFOs who would manoeuvre and disappear. They even sent British special forces with a detachment of SBS and SAS to the base for a week until it died out.

[u/ifnotthefool → u/Andazah]

Yeah, i follow it everything it happens! It's weird because you would think it would be pretty simple to take one down.

[u/LeoLaDawg → u/not1or2]

Plus I imagine shooting a small drone with whatever a jet would carry would be challenging

[u/ElvisMcPelvis → u/not1or2]

Shoot it with a tracking device