What is the Purpose of an Aircraft Drone?
The Aircraft Drone Was Designed for War. Many People Believe This High-Tech Spy Will be Used by the NWO to Patrol the Skies of Police-State America!
Unmanned aerial vehicles, known as an aircraft drone, have soared the skies of Afghanistan and Iraq for years, spotting enemy encampments, protecting military bases and launching missile attacks against suspected terrorists. There are other uses, however.
Alternative uses for UAVs, also known as an aircraft drone, may include surveillance in the United States.
A House of Representatives panel heard testimony from police agencies that envision using UAV’s for everything from border security to domestic surveillance high above American cities.
Private companies also hope to use UAV’s for tasks such as aerial photography and pipeline monitoring.
“We need additional technology to supplement manned aircraft surveillance and current ground assets to ensure more effective monitoring of United States territory.”
– Michael Kostelnik, assistant commissioner at Homeland Security’s Customs and Border Protection Bureau.
Kostelnik was talking about patrolling U.S. borders and ports from altitudes around 12,000 feet, an automated operation that’s currently under way in Arizona.
In a scene that could have been inspired by the movie “Minority Report,” one North Carolina county is using a UAVs equipped with low-light and infrared cameras to keep watch on its citizens.
The aircraft has been dispatched to monitor gatherings of motorcycle riders at the Gaston County fairgrounds from just a few hundred feet in the air close enough to identify faces and there many other uses, such as the aerial detection of marijuana fields are planned.
That raises not just privacy concerns, but also safety concerns because of the possibility of collisions with commercial and general aircraft.
It’s Just not Fair
Pilots undergo extensive training on collision detection and avoidance.
Planes that fly at night are required to have certain types of lights, for instance, and during all flights that take place in poor weather or higher than 18,000 feet above sea level, the pilot must be in radio contact with controllers.
No such anti-collision rules apply to UAV’s. Rudinger is concerned that an aircraft drone either remote-controlled or an autonomous aircraft drone will pose a safety threat to pilots and their passengers.
She’s not that worried about larger UAVs operated by the military that have sophisticated radar systems, but she is worried about smaller drones that have limited equipment and potentially inexperienced ground controllers.
Rudinger also feels that the FAA needs to define what an UAV actually is, and that they need to regulate it just like they would with any other aircraft while integrating it into the system.
Rudinger points out that the problem this technology has advanced is that there are no regulations that talk about how to certify these aircraft, how to certify the operator and how to operate in the national airspace program.
For its part, the FAA says it’s created an aircraft drone “program office” to come up with new rules of the sky.
Preliminary standards for “sense and avoid” UAV avionics are expected in three to four years.
According to Nick Sabatini, associate FAA administrator for aviation safety, there is no recognized technology solution that could make these aircraft capable of meeting regulatory requirements for “see and avoid, and command and control.”
So Many Different Ways, so Little Time
Complicating the question of how to deal with an aircraft drone is the fact that there are so many different varieties of them.
Some are essentially large model aircraft and weigh only a few ounces or pounds, while some military models are the size of a Boeing 737.
Most are designed to sip fuel slowly, so they have long flight times and low airspeeds–meaning that they could be flying at the same altitude as a jet aircraft but at half the speed.
Egging on Congress and the FAA are manufacturers of UAV’s, who see a lucrative market in domestic surveillance and aerial photography.