Were the Sidewinders the best solutions? Seems expensive ordinance to do the job, but on reflection, I wonder whether the aircraft have more pedestrian capabilities, like bullets.
I'm positive that this has been going on for awhile and governments are in some degree of acquiesce about it. This story would be a non event had some young backyard astronomer in the Western US not noticed it and then alerted local media.
The burst of sound at the beginning of the video is extremely unpleasant, even at low volume levels. Fix that you guys.
Were the Sidewinders the best solutions? Seems expensive ordinance to do the job, but on reflection, I wonder whether the aircraft have more pedestrian capabilities, like bullets.
I'm positive that this has been going on for awhile and governments are in some degree of acquiesce about it. This story would be a non event had some young backyard astronomer in the Western US not noticed it and then alerted local media.
But 1000 SUV sized drones hovering over the state of New Jersey for 10 hours at a time - nothing to see here folks.
US government drone testing and their UFOs they're "coming clean" about are laser generated images used to throw off enemy fighter jets in combat etc.