A ship of a hundred or more robots flew over Langley Air Force Base and Hampton Roads Naval Center in Virginia in December. For 17 times the robots penetrated U. S. heat space with violence. They sometimes reportedly dropped smaller uavs that may linger and travel more slowly. Additionally, the military believes that some robots may have touched down in a public space.
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The army is prohibited by law from shooting them down. They considered blocking their contacts, but they also believed it might be dangerous for commercial aviation.
But for 17 times, starting soon after sunset, the robots carried out whatever tasks were assigned to them. The Pentagon is also unsure of their identity or purpose.
The local police tried to get good. Hampton, VA authorities chased the uavs on legs and by police car. One of the droners was seen takeoff near Gosnold’s Hope Park. It is believed that there were three additional robots that had touched down there.  ,
What would the military would “if this happens over the National Mall,” questioned retired public Mark Kelley.
Was it an activity by a hostile authority to analyze U. S. responses? Was it a bunch of kids playing a joke on the world’s most powerful war? Was it both?
U. S. officials did n’t believe hobbyists were flying the drones, given the complexity of the operation. The robots flew in a style: one or two fixed-wing robots positioned more than 100 feet in the air and smaller helicopters, the size of 20-pound industrial robots, typically below and flying slower. Sometimes, they hovered.
They traveled from the north to the base, which is located on a peninsula near Chesapeake Bay, at about 6 p.m., and then continued west, out of the reach of radar. They repeated the structure and then disappeared, usually by nightfall.
The White House brainstorming classes were co-hosted by Homeland Security Advisor Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall. One standard suggested using digital signals to disable the robots ‘ tracking systems. People warned against it compromising native 911 dispatchers and Wi-Fi networks.  ,
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A possible fall in the case occurred in January when a student from the University of Minnesota, Fengyun Shi, was parked outside a factory where atomic submarines and the Navy’s newest technology of the Ford Class aircraft carrier were being constructed.  ,
Because his aircraft had gotten stuck in a branch, the student requested assistance from local inhabitants. One resident called the police and inquired as to why Shi was flying his aircraft in for bad conditions. They suggested he call the fire department.
Otherwise, Shi took an Amtrak to Washington, D. C., and therefore flew on to Oakland.
However, his drone fell from the trees where it was stuck. Federal authorities got hold of it and discovered what the helicopter was doing at that point. ” Photographed Navy vessels in dry port, including photographs taken around evening,” said Shi. Some were under development at the local shipyard”, reported the Journal.
On Jan. 18, federal officials arrested Shi as he was about to board a trip to China on a one-way solution. Shii claimed to be a ship newbie and that he had no idea how far his aircraft had entered restricted aircraft. No proof linking him to the Chinese government was found, despite the fact that prosecutors were n’t convinced. They found out the day before he traveled to Norfolk that he had purchased the helicopter on sale at a Costco in San Francisco.
The first situation involving a drone was brought on by U.S. prosecutors, who charged Shi with unjustly taking pictures of classified marine installations under a provision of spying rules. The 26-year-old Foreign regional pleaded guilty and appeared in federal court in Norfolk on Oct. 2 for punishment.
Judge Lawrence Leonard, a magistrate, claimed he did n’t believe Shi’s claim that he had been on vacation and was flying drones for fun in the middle of the night. ” There’s substantial holes”, the prosecutor said in court.
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” If he was a foreign agent, he would be the worst hacker always known”, said Shi’s lawyer, Shaoming Cheng. That’s never a security. For the most part, international institutions use photographers to obtain information.  ,
Yet, in this case, the U. S. government could get no relation to the Communist Chinese authorities in Shi’s history. This brought the analysis back to its original beginning, which is believed to be it.
” This is n’t a tomorrow problem, this is a today problem”, said Tom Karako, senior fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, a national-security think tank in Washington. ” It’s not an over-there problem—it’s an over-there, over-here and everyday problem”.
Whatever the issue is, the Pentagon should address it as soon as possible before those robots start carrying more than just devices.