Drone Be or Not to Be

Multiple’ drones have reportedly entered the airspace of a New Jersey naval station. Apparently, such drone invasions are not rare, especially in the Garden State. Some of the mysterious drone sightings have been later identified as small aircraft. But, as we’ve seen around the world, we are deep into the age of drone surveillance and warfare. And as Jared Keller explains in Wired, we don’t exactly have a system to deal with it. Why the US Military Can’t Just Shoot Down the Mystery Drones. “US military officials also indicated to reporters that the types of counter-drone capabilities the Pentagon may be able to bring to bear for domestic defense may be limited to non-kinetic ‘soft kill’ means like RF and GPS signal jamming and other relatively low-tech interception techniques like nets and ‘string streamers’ due to legal constraints on the US military’s ability to engage with drones over American soil.”