I don’t think the first was a drone. Earlier reporting was that they wanted to test the laser by the airport, FAA said no. They started shooting at things anyway and came up with the balloon answer when first questioned by the press. There’s no proof of a trespassing balloon or any otherl object as far as I know, though I imagine they would send up targets when test-firing. This seems like they got trigger happy again but since nobody at any of these agencies knows what the fuck they’re doing, they shot someone’s equipment out of the sky. Could have easily been a small plane instead.
Couldn’t it also cause problems for a large plane? I’m pretty sure if I shined my little green laser into the sky under the approach for a local airport I’d get a knock on the door pretty fast.
I don’t think the first was a drone. Earlier reporting was that they wanted to test the laser by the airport, FAA said no. They started shooting at things anyway and came up with the balloon answer when first questioned by the press. There’s no proof of a trespassing balloon or any otherl object as far as I know, though I imagine they would send up targets when test-firing. This seems like they got trigger happy again but since nobody at any of these agencies knows what the fuck they’re doing, they shot someone’s equipment out of the sky. Could have easily been a small plane instead.
Couldn’t it also cause problems for a large plane? I’m pretty sure if I shined my little green laser into the sky under the approach for a local airport I’d get a knock on the door pretty fast.
Yeah, but I’m assuming they didn’t mean to shoot drone. They hopefully wouldn’t mistake a passenger jet for a practice target.