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Homeland Security drone patrolling NNY
Last Update: 6/18 2:14 pm
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Unmanned aircraft deployed at Fort Drum (John Moore, NewsWatch50) A monitor inside an operations trailer shows a close-up view of a boat skimming across the water on Lake Ontario.
The image was taken from an unmanned aircraft more than three miles away.
A Predator B Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS) has been temporarily based at Fort Drum since early June in an experiment by the U.S. Customs and Border Protection Office.
The Department of Homeland Security is using the extensive restricted air space over Fort Drum to test whether the drone could be a good fit along this stretch of the northern border.
Video of a boat on Lake Ontario captured from 19,000 feet above (John Moore, NewsWatch50) U.S. Customs and Border Protection has five of the aircraft but so far none of them based permanently in the Northeast.
The Predator will operate out of Fort Drum for about three weeks for testing and training, and to evaluate its use to law enforcement.
John Stanton, director of CPB's Office of Air and Marine, said state, provincial and local law enforcement agencies were quick to take up the offer of added surveillance of Lake Ontario and the St. Lawrence River.
"So while we were flying, we were asked by our partner law enforcement agencies if we would be kind enough to be on the lookout for suspicious activities," Stanton said.
The surveillance also includes the land border between the U.S. and Canada after the border peels away from the St. Lawrence River.
By flying in restricted air space at 19,000 feet, the Predator avoids lower-level air traffic, cutting the risk of collisions, Stanton said.
The aircraft is virtually identical to Predators used by the military, with the exception of lower-power engine and no weapons, he said.
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Check out the pic from 19,000 feet!
http://www.newswatch50.com/news/local/story/Homeland-Security-drone-patrolling-NNY/8ujqf9M2YkCXVlOmBVxFOg.cspx
IMHO - This is some scary shit.
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Gotta get all the
Al qaeda, illegals. weed trying to get into the country.
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Gotta get all the Al qaeda, illegals. weed trying to get into the country.
Can you post the pic at the site???
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(http://www.newswatch50.com/media/news/f/d/c/fdc93f03-2066-4104-8ec2-82403ba486b8/Story.jpg)
Video of a boat on Lake Ontario captured from 19,000 feet above (John Moore, NewsWatch50)
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(http://www.newswatch50.com/media/news/f/d/c/fdc93f03-2066-4104-8ec2-82403ba486b8/Story.jpg)
Video of a boat on Lake Ontario captured from 19,000 feet above (John Moore, NewsWatch50)
That is some scary shit right there focusing on domestic pleasure boaters. .
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That is some scary shit right there focusing on domestic pleasure boaters. .
Patriot Act in EFFFFECTTTTTTT!
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Patriot Act in EFFFFECTTTTTTT!
Which was and is wrong.
That drone is going to be used for some serious bad stuff. You watch, a few years from now some dick is going to get fired for taking the drone over a nude beach and filiming people.
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Which was and is wrong.
That drone is going to be used for some serious bad stuff. You watch, a few years from now some dick is going to get fired for taking the drone over a nude beach and filiming people.
Nothing but old women out there anyway.
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wow, the pic is badly fuzzy. This is seriously low tech.
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wow, the pic is badly fuzzy. This is seriously low tech.
Dude, that pic is from 19,000 feet from a predator drone. At 19,000 feet, you probably cant even see that thing flying.
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Its training.....
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great
how about they place a few of these on the border andpick off trespassers
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Gotta get all the Al qaeda, illegals. weed trying to get into the country.
Any country that can "win" the war on drugs will have to be a police state...
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Which was and is wrong.
That drone is going to be used for some serious bad stuff. You watch, a few years from now some dick is going to get fired for taking the drone over a nude beach and filiming people.
Hello, Welcome to Teenager Fantasy Land.
Fortunately, nudists don't give a shit about people looking at them.