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In reply to the discussion: Ukraine just rewrote the rules of war [View all]ThreeNoSeep
(270 posts)Granted, you could be right that every one of these is a plane misidentified as a commercial drone. However, you make a few unjustified assumptions such as the government knows the number of commercial drones in the night sky at any given time and at any given lat/long, you imply none of the drones were military by simply not mentioning that possibility, and you adopt the undefined phrase "no more than usual". How many are there, usually?
Other knowledgeable people come to a different conclusion as well.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/us-capability-to-handle-drones-60-minutes/
"Officials in Washington have underestimated the threat posed by drones in U.S. airspace, despite several cases of mysterious drone swarms over sensitive military sites, warned Glen VanHerck, the former joint commander of North American Aerospace Defense Command and U.S. Northern Command."
Not saying it was foreign military, nor aliens. But it seems unlikely the strong response from military and law enforcement was just because of misidentified planes.