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Video shows swarm of six unidentified drones fly over US Navy's most advanced destroyer ship off the coast of California, while vessel was in international waters
2022-09-01
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
  • A new video shows the moment six mysterious drones circled around the USS Zumwalt, the US Navy's most advanced warship

  • The video shows a drone with multicolored lights buzzing above the ship flying in 'consistent patterns,'

  • Drone swarm events have become more common in recent years, and the US military has devoted more resources to combatting and understanding them

  • The incident happened just 17 miles off the coast of Southern California, near major Marine base Camp Pendleton
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Posted by:Skidmark

#5  I thought that was when you set the big radar on *Zorch*?!?
Posted by: magpie   2022-09-01 20:45  

#4  Look at the armament of a Zumwalt Class, vs. say, a Butler Class, and ask which is more capable vs. a drone swarm?
Posted by: swksvolFF   2022-09-01 14:17  

#3  Chang issues warning after Chinese drone shot down over Taiwan Strait: 'Anything can happen right now'
Posted by: Skidmark   2022-09-01 14:09  

#2  I'll hazard a guess that these are Chinese spies. Why the Navy doesn't blast them out of the sky is beyond me.
Posted by: Abu Uluque   2022-09-01 13:14  

#1  An Arleigh Burke would have lit them up.

A Goddamned Spruance would have lit them up.
Posted by: swksvolFF   2022-09-01 12:42  

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