Germany: Drones spotted over US air base in Ramstein – DW – 12/13/2024
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Germany's Der Spiegel magazine said drones were also seen over facilities belonging to the Rheinmetall arms maker. It comes after US authorities said there was no evidence of a threat over drone sightings in New Jersey.

Summary

Unidentified drones were recently spotted over the US air base in Ramstein, Germany, and facilities belonging to German arms maker Rheinmetall, according to Der Spiegel.

Similar sightings occurred earlier in Brunsbüttel, with some officials suspecting Russian espionage, though no evidence has been confirmed.

The US Air Force stated the Ramstein base experienced “no impacts” and is monitoring the airspace with German authorities.

This follows reports of drone sightings in New Jersey and at UK air bases, which US authorities say do not currently pose a national security threat.

  • leftzero@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
    384·
    1 day ago

    You and I in a little toy shop
    Buy a box of drones with the money we’ve got
    Set them free at the break of dawn
    'Til one by one, they were gone
    Back at base, sparks in the software
    Flash the message “Something’s out there”
    Floating in the summer sky
    99 little drones go by

    99 little drones
    Floating in the summer sky
    Panic bells, it’s red alert
    There’s something here from somewhere else
    The war machine springs to life
    Opens up one eager eye
    Focusing it on the sky
    The 99 little drones go by

    99 Decision Street
    99 ministers meet
    To worry, worry, super scurry
    Call the troops out in a hurry
    This is what we’ve waited for
    This is it boys, this is war
    The President is on the line
    As 99 little drones go by

    99 knights of the air
    Ride super high-tech jet fighters
    Everyone’s a superhero
    Everyone’s a Captain Kirk
    With orders to identify
    To clarify and classify Scrambling the summer sky
    99 little drones go by

    As 99 little drones go by

    99 dreams I have had
    In every one, a little drone
    It’s all over, and I’m standing pretty
    In this dust that was a city
    If I could find a souvenir
    Just to prove the world was here
    And here is a little drone
    I think of you, and let it go

      • leftzero@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
        3·
        7 hours ago

        I just replaced “red balloons” with “little drones”.

        The song has always been about world war three being triggered by a silly innocent little thing, and the English version is almost as old as the original German.

      • leftzero@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
        13·
        24 hours ago

        Or 99 Luftballons in the original.

        And I don’t know about old… it’s starting to feel like we’re right back in the eighties… at least for the bad bits…

          • leftzero@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
            1·
            10 hours ago

            We do have another senile hollywood “actor” in the white house, though…

            (As for the perfidious Albion… as much as I despise that witch at least she didn’t pull a brexit on them… luckily I ain’t afflicted with being British, so I’m not up to date with the extent to which they are fucked, but from outside things are looking about as bleak as when she was infesting the place, though thanks to brexit the effects seem to be more contained to the isles, at least…)