This makes me wonder how many drones have successfully completed their reconnaissance missions over South Korea?:
THAAD site on former South Korean golf course outside of Seongju.
A North Korean drone found last week by a South Korean civilian had spied on the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (Thaad) antimissile site in Seongju County, North Gyeongsang, before crashing into a mountain in Inje, Gangwon, on its way back to the North, according to local military officials.
The drone had traveled at least 270 kilometers (168 miles), the distance between the demilitarized zone and Seongju, to reach the Thaad field.
The South Korean military had not known about the flight until an Inje resident retrieved the drone from a mountain last Thursday at 11 a.m. and reported it to authorities the following day.
“Around 10 photos were found in the Japan-made Sony camera attached to the drone,” said a South Korean military official Monday, who embargoed the story until Tuesday. The photos of Thaad, he said, were among “several hundred,” which mostly featured mountains and civilian areas.
Local officials had to restore the camera because it was initialized, or formatted, by the time they got it. Further analysis was underway.
The South Korean military said the drone had started taking photos from the north side of Seongju all the way down to the south, then continued as it flew back towards North Korea. [Joong Ang Ilbo]
You can read more at the link, but these drones are so cheap to make it seems like the Kim regime can just keep sending them over the DMZ until they are successful at capturing the imagery they want. It looks like the US military needs to consider getting one of these systems to counter North Korea’s drones.
You can’t shoot down a drone if you don’t know it’s there in the first place. This drone made it all the way in and almost all the way back home undetected.
Flyingsword
7 years ago
Now wonder how many nK sofa come and go….
Tbonetylr
7 years ago
Just don’t let Trump on the course/greens.
‘What the heck were you thinking?’: Golf columnist slams Trump for driving cart on putting green(Video) http://www.golfchannel.com/news/grill-room/trump-appears-drive-cart-bedminster-green/
“The distinguished editorial board at Cheap Seats maintains a nonpartisan policy and tries to keep politics out of sports. But on behalf of 25 million golfers in the United States, we must ask the president one thing.
What the heck were you thinking?
Video leaked last week of President Trump driving his golf cart onto a green. You didn’t have to be a CNN anchor to be outraged.
Golf has a lot of arcane rules, but one that everybody understands is that you don’t drive a 700-pound golf cart onto the delicate turf of a green.
Again, this not a political statement. We just want the president to set a better example for America’s golfing youth.
If he doesn’t, we may have to endorse a candidate in 2020 who wants to build a wall around greens to keep the bad drivers out.”
You can’t shoot down a drone if you don’t know it’s there in the first place. This drone made it all the way in and almost all the way back home undetected.
Now wonder how many nK sofa come and go….
Just don’t let Trump on the course/greens.
‘What the heck were you thinking?’: Golf columnist slams Trump for driving cart on putting green(Video)
http://www.golfchannel.com/news/grill-room/trump-appears-drive-cart-bedminster-green/
“The distinguished editorial board at Cheap Seats maintains a nonpartisan policy and tries to keep politics out of sports. But on behalf of 25 million golfers in the United States, we must ask the president one thing.
What the heck were you thinking?
Video leaked last week of President Trump driving his golf cart onto a green. You didn’t have to be a CNN anchor to be outraged.
Golf has a lot of arcane rules, but one that everybody understands is that you don’t drive a 700-pound golf cart onto the delicate turf of a green.
Again, this not a political statement. We just want the president to set a better example for America’s golfing youth.
If he doesn’t, we may have to endorse a candidate in 2020 who wants to build a wall around greens to keep the bad drivers out.”