This drone was apparently undetected on FAA radar or by DHS.
See my tag line and link for possible asymmetric attack vulnerability to drones exactly like the one spotted near JFK.
See FOX 25 video at bottom of story.
Additional links in the article:
“Pilot reports mystery black ‘drone’ at JFK”
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/pilot_reports_mystery_black_drone_Tnp57ufZY3NToa47SuCIKL
“Pilot reports spotting ‘drone’ over Brooklyn”
http://edition.cnn.com/2013/03/04/us/new-york-drone-report/
So, the black-helicopter crowd will have a field day with this...
Government operating thousands of potentially armed unmanned aircraft to monitor/control the serfs=good.
Serf operating a glorified toy=terrorism.
About right?
Probably a FreeFor drone. We should be getting our drones ready, too, and practicing with them, since OpFor is obviously feeling froggy.
FPV RC Helicopter Quadcopter Drone w/ HD Video Camera Controlled by Smartphone
Many RC planes are made of materials that would not reflect radar and may also be too small to be detected by radar. I am sure terrorists are aware of this and are looking at means of arming these drones.
This morning Glenn Beck reported that Rand Paul had just called in to his program saying that he had just received a letter from Eric Holder that he wanted to read on the air. He only would say that it is to do with the drone program and that if true it’s HUGE. They are in the process of verifying information but said that RP wants it to break on the Blaze...we’ll see.
I know GB can be alarmist and theatrical, but he is often right.
The report I heard on the news was that the flying object was observed at about 1,500 feet. I think that might be a tad far for an average RC transmitter.........If not, then the hobbyist/operater was likely directly underneath it while flying it and will probably be caught.