There are at least 63 active drone sites around the U.S, federal authorities have been forced to reveal following a landmark Freedom of Information lawsuit.
The unmanned planes – some of which may have been designed to kill terror suspects – are being launched from locations in 20 states.
Most of the active drones are deployed from military installations, enforcement agencies and border patrol teams, according to the Federal Aviation Authority.
But, astonishingly, 19 universities and colleges are also registered as owners of what are officially known as unmanned aerial vehicles.
It is thought that many of institutions, which include Cornell, the University of Colorado, Georgia Tech, and Eastern Gateway Community College, are developing drone technology.
There are also 21 mainstream manufactures, such as General Atomics, who are registered to use drones domestically.
As well as active locations, the FAA also revealed 16 sites where licences to use spy planes have expired and four where authorisations have been disapproved, such as Otter Tail County, Minnesota.
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Watching you: Most of the drones are likely to be small craft, such as the Draganflyer X8, which can carry a payload of only 2.2lb. Police, border patrols and environmental agencies, such as the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), could use for them effectively
Ate you are fucking stupid. Border Patrol has been using UAVs for years. This is nothing new. There is also a difference between a UCAV and a UAV dumbass.
Ate you are fucking stupid. Border Patrol has been using UAVs for years. This is nothing new. There is also a difference between a UCAV and a UAV dumbass.
No they haven't.
You're an idiot slave. Too stupid to save. Too stupid to realize he's awake. You're as good as dead.
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Washington - A bill passed last week allocating more than $63 billion to the Federal Aviation Administration would increase the existence of drones in civilian airspace across America and is expected to be signed into law by President Barack Obama
You mean 63 UAV launch sites are registered with the FAA? its a legal requirement if you want to test certain types of unmanned aircraft. Read it in a text file once.
yeah it sucks man we are bullies.. seriously, we are nothing but powerfull bullies, worse than the druglords, worse than iraq, libya, and all of those places.
We do some horrible shit here at USA and all the citizens are asleep and have no idea whats really going on.
well actually i was studying crossing the US/mexican border at least 18 months ago now and i read about the border patrol using them then.
I'm saying I'm not talking about that and that's not what this is about, at all.
No need to flip out.
Just realize that you're all being lied to and surrounded on a daily basis, in the name of keeping power in the same hands and limiting your resources and expansion as a human species.
Regardless of who's doing it, this is just part of an exceptional leap, because well, the time is now.
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The FAA has confirmed that there were about 300 active COAs and that the agency has issued about 700-750 authorizations since the program began in 2006.
2006? Thats approx. 6 years of UAV flights....
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Just realize that you're all being lied to and surrounded on a daily basis, in the name of keeping power in the same hands and limiting your resources and expansion as a human species.
Lied to about what? This has been mainstream news in the US for a long time. I've read articles with interviews from the operators of these UAVs. It doesnt take a mental giant to figure out why each organization would own a UAV. For example:
NASA=Research
Police Departments= Ummm, police work? How is it different that a helicopter?
Army/Marines/Etc=R&D/Training
All the Universities= Research
A UAV is not a drone. UAVs are piloted by FAA certified pilots. T10000 isnt flying itself trying to hunt down John Connor.
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Regardless of who's doing it, this is just part of an exceptional leap, because well, the time is now.
OMG!!!Robots are taking over. They are even spying on my in my house right now...I think Optimus Prime might unfold himself and kill me
Also, since you probably dont know the difference, this is a CAV
And this is a UAV:
Notice how one of these has missiles and the other doesnt?
FagAte, you need to stop masturbating with your tinfoil hat on. Its not healthy.
Tinfoil hats induce or increase craziness rather than reducing or defeating it. They do this by reflecting your own brain waves back onto your mirror neurons and creating feedback loops that alter your neurochemistry.
The more you know.
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Tinfoil hats induce or increase craziness rather than reducing or defeating it. They do this by reflecting your own brain waves back onto your mirror neurons and creating feedback loops that alter your neurochemistry.
Unmanned aerial vehicles, or UAV's, or drones as the media likes to call them, are more common than you think. Have you ever flown an RC plane or helicopter? That's a UAV. Most of the "innovation" in modern UAV's came from the hobby industry when the military thought it would be a good idea to use them for surveillance, S&R and other things. Like blowing up jihadists for the lulz.
Anyway the OP said 19 Universities/Colleges had permission to fly them, and for some reason the reporter thought that was astonishing. How is that astonishing, unless you live with your head up your arse?(like 99% of reporters/journalists). The US government hands out large grants to universities who are working on UAV work, plus any place which teaches aeronautical engineering.
If you spend more than 5 seconds on the internet, you'll see there is a large market for RC aircraft. The difference between the $50 plane and the $15 million drone blowing up the baddies is negligible. They are both wireless, they are both using conventional control surfaces, they both use readily available propulsion systems, they are both wirelessly controlled(one using radio/microwaves, the other using something else probably not microwave due to humidity affecting it).
Some of the designs are ridiculously simple but your government(the US) gets shafted for huge sums of money lol. Suckers. If you want to make money, make something new to wage war with. How about starting with an AI system for a UAV which is designed to identify people with beards and then fire on them indiscriminately? Or a fully autonomous vehicle which is essentially a 50kg bomb with legs/wheels, designed to hunt down the enemy behind their lines and capable of being parachuted in? Or even launched from a UAV lol. The Taliban won't even see it coming.
I hope you love your left-wing fascist government, hippie!
EDIT: Not directed at ate.
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It's just like human society is schizophrenic at the moment.
"Conspiracy theorists are just paranoid."
*sends thousands of drones out and inserts cameras into everyday modern household appliances, records all internet and cell traffic, begins a massive data probing and securing operation*
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If you don't get it by now, you're stupid as fuck.
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DHS wants to use spy drones domestically for 'public safety.
The United States already uses surveillance drones on its borders, but Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said during a hearing on Wednesday that flying unmanned aircraft inside the US could be the next step to ensuring “public safety.”
Sec. Napolitano weighed in on the topic of unmanned aerial vehicles during this week’s Committee on Homeland Security and suggested that implementing UAVs for domestic surveillance could the next step in the United States’ amazingly accelerating drone program.
The Federal Aviation Administration is currently considering ground rules that will outline how the FAA can govern domestic drone use, and by 2020 they expect to see 30,000 UAVs soaring through US airspace. Speaking before a House panel on Wednesday, though, Sec. Napolitano suggested that deploying UAVs proactively to put an extra set over locales nowhere near America’s border may in fact be the next move.
“With respect to Science and Technology, that directorate, we do have a funded project,” she said. “I think it’s in California, looking at drones that could be utilized to give us situational awareness in a large public safety [matter] or disaster, such as a forest fire, and how they could give us better information.”
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