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US Airspace To Crawl With 7,500 Drones In 5 Years
The chief of the Federal Aviation Administration predicted Thursday that U.S. airspace could be crowded with as many as 7,500 commercial drones within the next five years. As The Washington Times reports, Michael Huerta said his agency would set up six sites across the country to test drone operators and, in an effort to balance privacy/safety with anarchic airspace drone pollution, he added, "we must fulfill those obligations in a thoughtful, careful manner that ensures safety and promotes economic growth, " as dangerous incidents involving drones have already taken place...
Although they are expected to be used for peaceful purposes such as firefighting and weather tracking - it's causing a lot of concern, as Huerta warns "we need to be responsive to public concerns about privacy."
You'll never notice it from the ground, but the skies above the US are crowded with roughly five thousand planes at any given moment. The daily total of movements, is up to a whopping 90,000. And dangerous incidents involving drones have already taken place there - as Gayane Chichakyan reveals...
Within the next five years, after appropriate regulations are introduced, whole 7,500 small UAVs will be operating in US airspace, FAA Administrator Michael Huerta said at an aerospace news conference in Washington on Thursday.
Huerta outlined the ultimate goal of the American drone industry: global leadership that could enable the US to set standards for the industry worldwide.
"We recognize that the expanding use of unmanned aircraft presents great opportunities, but it's also true that integrating these aircraft presents significant challenges,"
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Huerta shared some interesting statistics on who is using drones in the US the most. He mentioned that apart from synoptics, environmental specialists and educational institutions, there are about 80 law enforcement agencies that operate small size surveillance drones, with the FAA granting each of them public use waivers on a case-by-case basis.
“If we’re going to take full advantage of the benefits that we’re talking about from these technologies, we need to be responsive to public concerns about privacy,” Huerta said.
Reportedly, not only the FAA, but also Pentagon, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the Department of justice are taking part in a multi-agency group that has also released a comprehensive plan accelerating integration of UAVs into US national airspace. All data gathered by the six test sites will go straight to that interagency group, Huerta said.
And focused on privacy...
(via The Washington Times)
The Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems, the leading trade group for the nation’s private-sector drone operators, estimated this year that the commercial drone industry will create more than 100,000 jobs and generate more than $82 billion in economic impact over the next 10 years — if the government moves quickly to establish workable operating regulations and safeguards.
The impending boom has raised concerns among privacy advocates about how and where drones might be used to collect data. The FAA is requiring future test sites to develop privacy plans and make them available to the public. The policy also requires test site operators to disclose how data will be obtained and used.
“Make no mistake about it, privacy is an extremely important issue and it is something that the public has a significant interest and concern over and we need to recognize as an industry that if we are going to take full advantage of the benefits that we are talking about for these technologies we need to be responsive to the public’s concerns about privacy,” Mr. Huerta said.
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I would feel much safer if they would just put a chip in me!
So that they can track everyone... and since the NSA collects everything... if you say something bad against the government or the wonderful drones, they can send a missile your way.
NSA
Drones
NDAA
Guantanamo
Crooked cops
Crony capitalists
False flags
Etc, etc.
Does anyone trust this sh!t anymore?
TED talk on how the NSA broke the world's trust:
http://www.planbeconomics.com/2013/11/how-nsa-betrayed-worlds-trust-time...
I operate my own drone. I use it expressly to pull 'Google is Evil' banners whilst buzzing Google camera cars. Watch for the banner photo-bomb in future Google street view shots.
Droney the friendly drone, up in the skies, keepin your streets safe from the evil terriss and their wack plans. The bad part is, the evil terriss is you.
Sure privacy important, just not as important as their national security issue, which will trump and use the drone as the next cell phone listening device to be used as he see's fit, if only time were on his side.
When did we have to turn to RT to hear the real news....when did that happen?
I understand it's important worship the supreme leader....but could we please cover other stuff at the same time?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H9u2Lf0DdzA
threadjack with a vid from krugman on sales tax and death panels
start it 1:45 in if you are impatient
I didn't buy the whole "you can keep your insurance if you want" too crap.....but I was really hoping the whole death panels thing wasn't going to happen.
Looks like I owe Sarah Palin an apology.
I should have known better than to question someone from MkUltra.
<delete> off topic, sorry
This too shall pass. Americans have the attention span of a Tsetse fly. A couple of years ago people had their panties in a bunch over TSA groping them but you hardly hear a whisper about it today. Already the fact that the NSA is spying on everyone is ancient history and nobody gives a crap. People by in large don't care how much government intrudes into their lives because the mentality is - "I have nothing to hide", an argument that is intellectually hollow.
HL Mencken said -"People don't want freedom. What people want is safety." As long as they feel safe they couldn't care less if their every movement is monitored, recorded and analyzed. This is reflected in their use of Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest and dozens of other social networking sites. They not only don't care that their privacy is invaded, they do everything in their power to put themselves out there in the public domain for all to see. There's almost an exhibitionist quality about these people.
If one extrapolates into the not distant future privacy won't exist on any level. Every movement will be monitored not just when you walk the streets but inside your home. And sadly, most folks won't care.
"People by in large don't care how much government intrudes into their lives because the mentality is - "I have nothing to hide", an argument that is intellectually hollow"
That is an argument that conservatives have used- if you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to worry about. Now the shoe is on the other foot.
"HL Mencken said -"People don't want freedom. What people want is safety.""
The irony is that government is the biggest danger of all.
If you have no privacy and no freedom, you have nothing to hide.
So should I stop my morning coffee and masturbation on the deck routine? It really centers me for the day.
So are you drinking the coffee in order to avoid falliing asleep after the self-pleasuring? A little 'cream in the coffee', as it were?
That is actually an excellent strategy.
Cappuccino!
Goes well with sugary bread rolls to get your energy back.
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Don't worry. If they only float 7500 you'll probably never see one. There's a lot of airspace up there.
Except of course, that they have to land somewhere, so yeah, you probably will. And there will be other aircraft in the near vicinity.
Every seen a small plane that has hit a goose?
Holy Shit, I think we're next door neighbors!
akak: "If you have no privacy and no freedom, you have nothing to hide."
The drones are up there to protect us . . . the terryists hate us for our freedoms, you know.
> ... the terryists hate us for our freedoms, you know.
The guy who said that has serious mental problems. He paints self-portraits of himself in the bath. Rumor has it his brain is turning to mushier mush and he's drinking again.
I hope he lives forever ... in a 'Groundhog Day' kinda life.
"If you have no privacy and no freedom, you have nothing to hide."
Except your thoughts.
"If you have no privacy and no freedom, you have nothing to hide."
I have new Meme for ya:
USA
Where you're 1000x more likely to be labeled a terrorist than harmed by one.
Don't worry, that's next.
Its all totally fine, I'm sure they're just using it to map gold "deposits" in bodies of water for later reclamation.
They will be shitting out demerits for language violations.
what the fuck are you fucking talking about? that is such a cunty bullshit statement, i may flag the fucking thing as fucking ofuckingfensive....buddy
Target rich environment
HA! 7500.......That should be down to ZERO in 72 hours !
When you have a population with the attention span of a gerbil, just put up another 'story' and the drone thing will drop from collective memory. Use another 'revealed' scandal for the big stuff. T&A works for the little stuff.
when one of these small drones gets sucked into a commercial jet engine and 300 people are killed, it will be a small price to pay for "safety from terror".
You think that's how the final report will read??
Naw . . . just spin it as an attack . . . and 'justification' for even more drones . . . to keep us 'safe'
Wonder how the drones do in snowstorms? Wonder how the drones do in power down situations?
Inquiring minds would like to know....
Wonder how an airplane does when it collides with a drone...
....it seems smog is the solution, so most of your major metro areas should be drone free......*cough*
http://youtu.be/5MGQjiBqO8A?t=44s
And that's funny since some drones are as big as airliners.
We all thought we would have flying cars by now... but no, we have flying surveillance drones... ain't that a shitty world? That's what happens when psychopaths run the government.
Its just like skeet shooting.
So we just need to give Kimberly Rhode a call? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Rhode
I saw her at the Lodnon Oimplycs. She was ... like... a real woman between lots of dolls.
We're gonna need anyone who can shoot "straight" ;-)
The God-Damned things have to land sometime.
That's why they are working on solar powered drones...
Yeah, and then they will have to choose between geo-engineering or spying. My bet is we will see fewer days of whitewashed skies.
Good idea you've had there, you should patent it.
Dual purpose unmanned aircraft -- they can spy and spew smoke at the same time.!
Friend of mine went to his window a few days ago to find a drone looking in.
Are you sure it wasn't just a lost Wal-Mart shopper?
If you see a drone observing you it is important that you act casual and do not run
If you are at a wedding or a funeral, run.
The Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems, the leading trade group for the nation’s private-sector drone operators, estimated this year that the commercial drone industry will create more than 100,000 jobs and generate more than $82 billion in economic impact over the next 10 years
Who gives a fuck? I mean, I bet the Soviet gulag system created a shitload of jobs too!
If the government was truly representing the people, drones would be banned over America.
Abd Barret rifles will be employing more people too!
and
I heard they could spot a muslim from 5000 feet, and a mexican crossing the border underground at 4000 feet.
You could just walk down there and see the same thing.
When it comes to Mexicans and Muslims on the border....we take their freedom pretty damn seriously.
Of course with 50,000 deaths on the border....which totally surpasses Iraq and Afghanistan.....why we don't send some troops down there is totally beyond me.
Cause it's hot as hell down there and what yankee wants go sweat in the desert and wait for armed militia's to battle with. Oh yea, desperate politicians like ours.
It really doesn’t matter if they put 10,000 or 50,000 into the airspace. When the Government cannot pay it’s bill to China. Government Drone repossessions will take place.
How GPS Tracking Devices make US Drone Repo Easy by using Real Time tracking.
Stop living in fear../sarc
Just wait until they come out with the personal "Angel On My Shoulder" drones to make sure everyone behaves according to their standards...
Drone nemesis = good ole' "Bombs bursting in air".
This is all going to end very badly for millions of innocents. Yes, millions..........
No, billions ...
Why the hell do we need 7,500 drones in the air all the damn time over the United States?????
Because they hate us for our freedom...
Just for clarification. Who exactly is the 'they' again??
Yeah, only a matter of time before there's a serious conflict between the drones and civil aviation that ends badly.
Like flight 800 ?
Our fearless banking monsters can payload White Phosphorus on the new drones to deploy on US citizens. Do you fuckwits remember what we did in the past? I will bite my tongue on how we used depleted uranium to devise a cheap firecracker.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ylbuYnd54As
Again, go ahead on bombing Iran. You don’t have our support. Show me a spreadsheet that displayed you turning a profit an annualized US taxpayers aid payments made to you for the last 7 years.
Freedom is your enemy, freedom is the opposite of safe. Its just not safe to be free anymore.
Privacy is your enemy as well, you just can't be safe if your being private
I hear they have equipment on board that will allow them to fly down and do ObamaCare anal probes.
WSGI. No eyes on the company has pushed share price down to ridiculously low price even though big news is coming.
This company has been in the making for 5 years.
The CEO invested one mil of his own money.
And chk out their connections to Homeland security, DOD, Navy, Army, NASA.
They own LTAS And GTC
They own pattens on airships that can hover at 65,000 feet for months at a time.
Better then Gold.
Welcome to World Surveillance Group Inc http://www.wsgi.com/This government is going broke and will not be able to fund all this nonsense much longer.
ficticious 1's and 0's are easy to print, so in reality this should continue long into YOUR forseeable future
unless you're gonna get off the couch and crack a sweat but what's the likelyhood of that happenin??? bout as much as Jamie D washing his own balls?
come here white nigga, soapy time
It's going to be sold as an asset to our new overlords.
It's all part of the plan. Don't panic people. We are simply watching a turn key fascist state being installed in the open. When they turn the key, the pieces needed for total control are already tested and in place. They have been running drills now, well. since 9/11. This is a nice piece to have in place to project power from afar. I can see them spraying the food riots, like Terminator 2.
Maybe me math is off, but my calculator says 150 per state. 7500 over 50 states isn't that hard to figure out. You guys are better than myself at these number crunching missions.
"Although they are expected to be used for peaceful purposes such as firefighting and weather tracking..."
What a crock of bullshit!
Counrty drone, you can't believe it's a drone.
"We promise. No, really, it's like, you know, your tax dollars at work!"
if it bleeds we can kill it bitchez!
What a waste of fuel, wtf are these drones going to do? hand-out parking tickets?
Okay, which one of you is this?
From the RT comment section...
"All that is needed to bring down these drones is a modified SSK JDJ .950. The militias can have units stationed across wide expanses and mobile since the range of this rifle is very long. They can be home made easily and have suppression to be masked by exhaust noise from a delivery truck or likewise. The rounds don't have to be the full metal jacket type that cost a lot since penetration won't be going up against any armor. Disable the engine and down it goes."
Surely 7500 is just the beginning of a trend. Try 75,000,000. A few years back, we would often hear the phrase the Next Big Thing. What will be the Next Big Thing to get people excited again? Well this may be it in today's world!!!
A huge growth industry awaits despite the sinister connotations, it won't all be spying on people. But maybe a lot of it will be, so what. Don't you want to know where your alzheimer-afflicted parent wandered off to in the middle of the night? There's a drone for that bro. I sense real opportunities here and as long as it is kept open to private sector innovation, I am optimistic. In the ranching sector for example, herding sheep will be much more efficient using an aerial barking drone.
Drones can be deployed to keep birds from fouling electrical equipment, thus saving millions of dollars in maintenance expenses.
THey will be able to replace expensive helicopter news crews for up to date reporting on local traffic conditions. I would much rather hear the droning voice of a polite yet disinterested drone give me the bad news of a serious traffic snarl up ahead than a live human uninvested in my suffering.
Drones with non-lethal abilities for crowd control is a certainty of course. Perhaps one model would cast a large net or spray a soporific drug to stem mass panic-reactions at out of control sporting venues or political events.
This may even herald the emergence of a whole new sort of geekish sport, drone races over a marked course with corporate sponsors. Probably this would be introduced in a new reality-tv show format with great advertising potential.
Or you might take a virtual tour using a drone in regions too dangerous or inconvenient to venture in person (true even in America, say you wanted to tour parts of LA.) I can even foresee drone safaris where you could shoot a cape buffalo from the comfort and convenience of your living room sofa.
One day you might hire a drone to hover nearby, acting as a personal trainer and giving you feedback on bad habits and unproductive activities, thus allowing you to reach your full potential as a human being.
There will certainly be economic bonanzas no one can even dream of today. It will spawn a new crop of billionaires, dont scoff.
Save it chief - nothin ever good came out of a drone, not under inappropriate hands anyway. When you have a society functioning with natural laws, drones have a time and a place. Any deviance from the previous sentence indicates state worship.
Pretty sure he was using, sarcasm. Pretty sure anyway.
Drones R US.
any day now there will a report of a small aircraft colliding with a drone, killing the passengers and this will be the first of many accidents.
Will the NSA hire out their Drones to Joe Blow so that he can rat-a-tat a guy that knocks his wifie when he is away on professional trips ?
"Only the NSA offers you this unique service. Take out your worst enemy, an offer we know you won't refuse. The brotherhood comes to your neighbourhood and makes you Kapo of the day. Don't take vengeance into your own hands; use US!"
Drones n Clones and Aliens. The OFFICIAL way.
No, cause there's ,more to gain extorting the wifie and her lover.
Privacy?
"If you have nothing to hide you have nothing to fear."
Donald Duck.
If you have nothing to hide - you already lost everything!
What do you do when you have no idea what to hide or to fear in the first place. All former Citizens now known as "consumers" are in violation of one law or another by design.
REPLY:
"I have something to hide and I don't want filthy GOVT slime looking into my shit."
One Chinese EMP and they all fall out of the sky like rain.
Time to get in the drone business!
Sorry too late
Who ownes the world.
Look on the bright side. This presents 7,500 opportunities a day for thousands of operatives from the hacker collective Anonymous to hack into drone control systems and send some drones back to their masters. The gubbermint showed how easy it is to do on 9/11/01.
We just saw how security over the CONgressCare.gov web site is so lax that a lone Ruskie hacker was able to steal personal data for every hapless registrant. The Iranians have already hacked into and ordered a few drones to land or crash. You can expect that some of the multiple droners, like local coppers, NOAA, USGS, firemen, etc., will have loose cybersecurity over their drones or maybe even a disgruntled or mole/plant employee.
Just think of the target-rich environment, like the NSA data center in Utah. Does it have good enough air defense systems 24/7? Just picture the K.U. glancing skyward every few seconds every time he is reading from his teleprompter. Priceless!
"We do not forgive. We do not forget. Expect us."
More Boeing battery problems.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/11/10/us-boeing-dreamliner-jal-idUSB...
The Drones are a continuation of NSA activity of General Warrants widely condemned by our foiunders. GPS in every citizens new car and Cell phone that can hear and track. Smart TV's in the home giving visual and sound for NSA.
BUT! What worrys me more is the ancient axiom going back before Rome's heyday that If a Ruler wanting complete control is about to act, That Ruler makes sure that the Generals of his army are loyal only to him. The general term Used Was "Coup Protection"! What's the average number of General Changed in the USA in the term of six years for a President?
Sign....freedom enforced by droves overhead....
Lovely
umbrellas. i win.
Want to hunt a drone? Go to this Colorado townhttp://watchdog.org/96302/want-to-hunt-a-drone-go-to-this-colorado-town/
The Chinese have to be loving the US's reliance on satellites. In a war they would only have to take out a couple of satellites and the USA would be absolutely impotent.
what is the reccommended load for hunting these things? 00 or bird shot?
OOO 3" Shells - 12 Gauge Goose loads will work if they aren't too high. that's for little ones. Problem is that the military is refurbing older war birds to be flown remotely and those jets can still carry and fire ordinance.
how many are mistakenly shot by hunters every year ? I have heard the number is higher than one would think if by accident.
Bullish for hail cannons.
The headline should have been, "In about 5 years, no wedding party or school will be safe from missile strike."
To find Truth and blast Lies;
out damned drones.
Wow, total article fail. Total reading comprehension fail, to boot.
This is about the FCC wanting to limit YOUR drones. Not their drones. I guess .gov/.mil drones can't violate privacy rules or some BS like that.
US and Euro private citizens have a lot more drones than their governments do. We invented it and they copied it. Poorly. Governments don't like being late to an important game.
We are not currently limited, see. I can currently remote pilot a craft anywhere as long as I obey FCC regulations (I do) regarding transmitter frequencies, power levels, RF interference, etc. I can park one right outside the governor's office window and there's nothing illegal about that.
So, the FCC is going to "fix" that for me and you.
The subtext here is that the government doesn't want you to pilot drones above, say, a dramatic act of civil disobeidience, and feed reconnaisence / strategic intel to "the disobeidient guys".
This is twice lately that you posted a shocking article (it is) that upset you (it should) for all the wrong reasons.