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#DRONES: The surprising limitations of drone defense. Henry Sokolski, NPEC

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John Batchelor

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4.52.8K Ratings

🗓️ 8 November 2024

⏱️ 9 minutes

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#DRONES: The surprising limitations of drone defense. Henry Sokolski, NPEC

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0:00.0

This is CBSI on the world.

0:06.2

I'm John Batchel.

0:07.7

Peterson's Space Force Base versus breaking defense.

0:12.5

The U.S. military has collectively reported hundreds of drone flights over Pentagon installations on American soil in the past two years.

0:22.4

And that's just the ones U.S. Northcom knows about.

0:26.5

I welcome Henry Sikolsky.

0:28.8

He is the executive director of the Non-Proliferation Policy Education Center to comment on a story

0:34.5

that is in the news and then not and then in the news and then not.

0:39.1

Now we have an additional anecdote.

0:42.5

A graduate student from Minnesota, Chinese National is presumption, flies to Virginia,

0:49.2

goes to a local Costco and purchases an off-the-shelf drone that has camera abilities, puts it in the

0:56.4

air over the fleet in some fashion. However, because he is new to it or because there's an accident,

1:04.8

it crashes in the tree and he can't get it back. He then buys a ticket for California and purchases a one-way ticket to China before he's apprehended.

1:16.1

I stop there. Henry, a very good evening to you. These two notes, the one about hundreds of flights and the other about a Chinese national,

1:24.8

buying a one-way ticket to China after crashing a Costco drone in a tree.

1:30.7

Does this all make sense, Henry?

1:32.2

Good evening to you.

1:33.8

Good evening.

1:34.6

It's great being on your show, as always.

1:38.3

Yeah, it makes sense.

1:40.5

It makes sense because it's so attractive a way to get information and to hold things at risk

1:52.2

without any major investment at all. You simply use locally purchased drones, which are able to carry, I don't know,

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