FAA Authorized Homeland Drone Operations - Drone Denial Exposed

FAA Authorized US Airspace UAV (Drone) Operations, ‘outside the military industrial complex’

Should Americans be concern?

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The story from CBS local out of Washington ‘Groups Concerned Over Arming Of Domestic Drones’ seems to say, just live with it, we already use them, every day and any resistance is simply not appropriate.

‘Chief Deputy Randy McDaniel of the Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office in Texas told The Daily that his department is considering using rubber bullets and tear gas on its drone.

“Those are things that law enforcement utilizes day in and day out and in certain situations it might be advantageous to have this type of system on the UAV (unmanned aerial vehicle),” McDaniel told The Daily.

The use of potential force from drones has raised the ire of the American Civil Liberties Union.

“It’s simply not appropriate to use any of force, lethal or non-lethal, on a drone,” Catherine Crump, staff attorney for the ACLU, told CBSDC.

(full article here)

http://washington.cbslocal.com/2012/05/23/groups-concerned-over-arming-of-domestic-drones/

Listed below are some of the companies, projects and operations going on in the full public view and others more discretely. This does not include the unknown number of companies that have not gotten FAA authorization or offered official public releases;

 such as, Neural Robotics Shotgun Autocopter

 

or

Urban Aeronautics AirMule

 

These are the link you will find the FAA authorized lists of public and private organizations operating UAVs.

https://www.eff.org/foia/faa-drone-authorizations

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2012/04/faa-releases-its-list-drone-certificates-leaves-many-questions-unanswered

- List of All Certificates of Authorizations (COAs) Issued to Public Entities

- List of All Special Airworthiness Certificates issued to Private Entities

These are some of those private projects (though often government/military corporation funded)

aurora – goldeneye,  Altius Mk II, Urban View,  Sky Dot, Excalibur VTOL

http://www.engineeringtv.com/video/GoldenEye-80-VTOL-UAV-Part-1

http://www.engineeringtv.com/video/GoldenEye-80-VTOL-UAV-Part-2

 

http://www.aurora-is.com/index.php?pg=uav&uavId=skydot

 

cyber defense systems – cyber bug

 

blackwater airships – polar 400

http://hamptonroads.com/node/433181

telford aviation – skybus 30k blimp

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/08/23/droid_airship_peeper_purchase/

http://www.defense.gov/contracts/contract.aspx?contractid=3587

AAI Corp – Shadow 200B

 

Unmanned Systems inc – Sandstorm

 

Ryan Aeronautical – RQ-4 Global Hawk

 

l3 bai aerosystems – viking 100

http://www.uadrones.net/military/research/acrobat/060421.pdf

http://www2.l-3com.com/uas/

defense technologies – kestrel

 

Bell Helicopter Textron – Eagle Eye VTOL

 

However for those within the military industrial complex umberella, UAV’s have been around for a long time (since WWII), they do not need to get FAA permission or authorization, they military and national security authorization and do not appear on FAA lists, ever.

Boeing – Condor UAV 1980’s

 

Now Boeing has Phantom Works (Phantom Eye, Phantom Ray)

http://www.boeing.com/Features/2012/06/bds_phantomeye_first_06_04_12.html

 

http://www.armedforces-int.com/news/boeing_phantom_ray_uav_unveiled.html

 

general atomics aeronautical well known altair upb970, MQ-1B Predator, MQ-9 Reaper

 

 

 

raytheon’s cobra, killer bee

 

 

 

Not to mention Small Tactical Muntitions

Rathon’s smaller version ’0.6m-long (2ft), 13lb (5.9kg)’ of the Griffin missile was specifically designed for uav’s.

http://www.flightglobal.com/news/articles/raytheon-tests-new-uav-weapon-348921/

 

lockheed martin samarai, Desert Hawk, RQ-170 Sentinel ‘Polecat’, RQ-3 DarkStar, P791 LTA ACLS and the ‘Morphing Drone’

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Northrop Grumman X-47B UCAS, the Firebird

 

 

 MH-60S and MQ-8B Fire Scout Early Demonstrations for the U.S. Navy

 

 

 

The X-47B UCAS

 

Then there is DARPA funded uav to uav aerial refueling for automated permanent flight capability.

http://www.xconomy.com/san-diego/2010/07/01/northrop-grumman-planning-first-uav-to-uav-aerial-refueling/

Or our own branches of the military and government disclosed and undisclosed

NASA under ERAST with

the Skyray X-48B ‘Scale Model’

 

or NASA UAV Helios or the more Advanced HALE

http://vimeo.com/24612588

US Army devising non-lethal “magic bullet” for drone aircraft

http://www.geek.com/articles/geek-cetera/us-army-devising-non-lethal-magic-bullet-for-drone-aircraft-20120428/

U.S. military seeking non-lethal UAVs

http://www.homelandsecuritynewswire.com/dr20120429-u-s-military-seeking-nonlethal-uavs

Then there are those spy drones the FAA will never regulate

Harvard Monolithic Bee or the Mobee

 

If someone says to you that there are no drones in US skies, no police UAV’s, no spy blimps, if they call you a crazy person and deny the government is monitoring and spying on its people; Point out the camera on the nearest traffic light.

Should we be concerned that billions and trillions are being spent on this surveillance pointed at us?

I am.

Don’t hope the FAA will protect your fundamental rights of privacy, travel, association, assembly and redress.

US congressmen demand justification for drone strikes

http://tribune.com.pk/story/393471/us-congressmen-demand-justification-for-drone-strikes/

 

If we do not act against this militarizing and policing of our skies drone strikes might make impeachment impossible.

-sovereignthink