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6). Regardless of who is flying these drones (BLUE or RED), they expose a vulnerability common to all modern nations. Defensive technology must catch up to the threat, and fast.
What kinds of drones are slipping through Europe’s defenses? They could be Group 3 drones, medium-sized, built with composites, flying low and slow. If that’s the case, they raise hard questions about radar coverage, payload capacity, and the range of threats they may represent.
5). Countering this threat is not as easy as buying a monolithic air defense systems. Custom radar loadsets must be designed to prevent filtering of the signatures of these drone types. Furthermore, more radars over larger areas must be installed.
4). It may be that the drones are being flown from a satellite, since they are so low, and appear to be spread across a wide area. A Group 3 drone launch may require 3-5 people. If you extrapolate the rogue drones in flight in the EU right now, there may be multiple drone bases of 3-5 people, possibly afloat or in a remote area.
3). Group 3 drones offer payload capacities of up to around 100 pounds. A lot of technology or weaponry can fill a 100 lbs payload compartment. Low, slow, drones with a high-volume payload can enable a sophisticated enemy a lot of options.
2). When constructed of materials like carbon fiber, which is inherently harder to detect due to it’s low Radar Cross Section, and flown at lower levels, perhaps 2,000 feet and below, and furthermore moving slowly, perhaps below 30 miles per hour (13 meters per second), it becomes hard to detect these drones.
1). The drones operating in Europe appear to be what is classified generally as Group 3 drones; which weigh less than approximately 1300 pounds and typically have a wingspan of less than 30 feet or so.
Normally I would agree, such as with the Chinese Balloon shoot down, if someone would have claimed it was exotic, the burden of proof would have been on that entity to show evidence of that concept.
That said, neither party can claim, to date, to explicitly say what the object(s) are. We have offered an explanation of what it could be, and only ask the prosaic side to offer similar analysis.
Which balloon? Where is it from? Other evidence of this balloon signature in other events? What about the smaller objects? What are they? Why are they similar/same sizes and odd signature?
Again, we have offered a concept solution to the problem, can ANYONE claiming they know this is prosaic offer the same analysis? We're not saying it's little green men, and we are completely open to it being a balloon, but SHOW ME THE MONEY. It should be very easy to offer some concept analysis and end the debate.
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