Drone Swarm

[beej]

the biggest question is who?

https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/44231/navy-releases-timeline-for-2019-uas-swarm-involving-warships-off-california

As for this new timeline, it shows that the incident began around 2:56 AM Zulu Time, also known as Greenwich Mean Time, on July 17th, or 7:56 PM local time July 16th. U.S. Coast Guard data separately indicates that the USS Paul Hamilton stopped broadcasting its location via the Automatic Identification System (AIS) approximately 10 minutes earlier at 7:47 PM local time. U.S. Navy vessels are not required to broadcast via AIS, and sometimes disable their transponder to lower their overall electronic signature in situations of heightened security.

Though deck logs do not indicate why the USS Paul Hamilton disabled its AIS, other ships in similar circumstances that month noted that they disabled AIS transponders specifically due to possible UAS activity. Additionally, logs indicate that the event began just after navigation lights were turned on.

At the start of the incident, the timeline indicates that a UAS was spotted at a distance of about one nautical mile. Twenty minutes later, the timeline indicates two UASs were seen with one of them falling in the water. By 8:26 PM local time, multiple UAS were spotted. The timeline also indicates that the bridge was able to see flashing red lights.

At 8:50 PM local time, the timeline notes a "UAS swarm." By 9:11 PM the timeline notes that one of the objects was directly overhead at 2,000 feet. Just a minute later, all of the objects appeared to change course and head away from the ship at 60 knots, or 69 miles per hour. However, eight minutes later, UASs were again seen behind the ship. The last event noted in the slide is when one of the UAS crossed the ship at approximately 2,000 feet. In total, the event appeared to last from 7:56 PM local time until 10:39 PM, or a total of two hours and 49 minutes.

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