Thread by @pepesgrandma

🔥Fact : Large Drones are very big business in New Jersey and also has both Dept of Defense and United Nations involvement.

The United Nations, has in the past, operated large drones in Cape May, New Jersey. Which is 120 miles from Bedminister. Learning this then led me to learn that New Jersey is a major drone corridor.

The UN along with the Red Cross at Cape May used Drones for SHIP TO SHORE medical delivery practice. This was for practice for natural disasters. This was in partnership with the Dept of Defense etc. The UN also has a New Jersey chapter.

♦️ The United Nations also works with UAS (drone) contractors in New Jersey. So where does this technology get practiced?

“Pentagon Performance Inc. (PPI), a New Jersey-based unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) manufacturing company, has received a Notice of Consideration for Award of a $50 million contract to provide intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance services to the United Nations’ MONUSCO mission, located in the Democratic Republic of Congo.”

♦️Years back, Cape May became a major drone hub. And the Cape May UAS (Unmanned Aerial System) program is not just limited to Cape May:

“Starting with fewer than a dozen innovators, our UAS activities have grown into an extensive UAS Program enjoying participation by many additional counties and hundreds of UAS innovators from throughout New Jersey and adjoining States.”

(New York and Pennsylvania by chance?)

“Tech Incubator:  We recently built and launched our first tech incubator at Cape May County Airport (KWWD), to host seven early-stage UAS companies.”

“Feature Events: We’re thrilled to serve as site for special events like a workshop for United Nations representatives developing new guidelines for use of drones in international disasters etc”

“We also work closely with the New Jersey State Police, NJ-DOT, the U.S. Coast Guard Sector Delaware Bay, local OEM officials, and others, to address how UAS can assist in post-disaster response and incident management.”

“We engage in intensive public-private teaming to explore use of UAS technology by First Responders tools.”

*Public private is government and regular businesses working together.

♦️A UAS is actually the complete package deal for a UAV (drone).

“A UAS is the totality of everything that makes a UAV work including its GPS module, ground control module, transmission systems, camera, all the software, and the person on the ground controlling the drone. To put it simply, a UAV is simply a component of a UAS.”

♦️ Without the military, drone countering attempts could be futile.

- In New York, police aren’t allowed to force land a possible terrorist drone. I’m too sleepy to look up NJ. But it’s likely similar.

In New Jersey, the state police used a small drone to investigate the larger ones. This could prove to be futile if the large ones are from China. Why?

“In New Jersey, more than 500 of the 550 UAS registered by the state and local police departments were made by the Chinese companies DJI or Autel.”

♦️This brings me to my last point. If these large drones are Chinese, how much of the counter equipment or their parts were made in China?

This report is the result of a very short review of New Jersey large drone programs. I’m certain there’s much more to be found. But I think I got my point across. I’ve also opened up multiple avenues as to what they could possibly be.

I’m also thinking folks should have been sky watching much longer. Perhaps the UK military base drone business stirred things up?

Cape May New Jersey, A UAS (drone) Program for the Region:

“We have full water access to the East (the Atlantic Ocean) and the West (Delaware Bay), and we’re boundered to the North by drone-friendly counties.  Together, we offer every imaginable type of airspace and geospatial feature – from rural to urban environments, varied transportation infrastructure, agricultural space and wetlands and forests, species habitats, oysters, from small municipal airports to an International Airport – you name it !”

“Starting with fewer than a dozen innovators, our UAS activities have grown into an extensive UAS Program enjoying participation by many additional counties and hundreds of UAS innovators from throughout New Jersey and adjoining States.”

“We recently built and launched our first tech incubator at Cape May County Airport (KWWD), to host seven early-stage UAS companies.”

“Finally, we are developing expertise through special teams focusing on use of UAS in the Energy and Utilities industries.  Partnering with neighboring counties, we are testing uses that can be scaled across the country for both routine infrastructure inspection and emergency response.”

Read more here:

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Hope you didn’t miss the quote above:

Cape May UAS (drone program) : “We are bordered by drone friendly counties.”

Now this New Jersey drone stuff has been going on since at least 2016. And NJIT is partnered with the Dept of Defense. This program also involved the United Nations and Red Cross.

♦️NJIT to Participate in Historic First Ship-to-Shore Drone Delivery

“The flights will demonstrate the capacity of unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) to provide lifesaving aid to victims of a disaster, such as a hurricane or system-wide failure of electrical or communications infrastructure. In a test, the Nevada-based drone delivery company Flirtey will fly medical samples for emergency testing between an improvised onshore medical relief camp at Cape May and a test facility on a vessel stationed off the coast. In a round trip, the company’s drones will also deliver medical supplies from the vessel to the onshore camp.

The Red Cross and several United Nations (UN) agencies will participate in the event, coordinated by the disaster readiness organization Field Innovation Team (FIT), to assess the technology’s ability to improve the timelessness and reliability of medical equipment delivery and diagnostic testing in disaster zones.”
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If you click the blue hyperlink on the above site for the New Jersey Innovation Institute (NJII), it takes you to this page.

“Our partners include the US Army Department of Defense, the New Jersey Division of Health and Human Services, Federal Aviation Administration, and several major corporations that call New Jersey their home.”

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Now there’s also the possibility that some employee or a group of employees somewhere went lone wolf.

For example, recall the United Nations and Red Cross both participated in Oct 7th in Israel. Israel is also being actively attacked with drones.

We have a very large pro Palestine/Hamas faction in the United States.

It’s a long shot but nothing can be excluded until we get a government response.

This may also be a serious moment to question local and state government use of UAS (drone) systems from China.

One thought is can they be remotely controlled by the Chinese?

“In New Jersey, more than 500 of the 550 UAS registered by the state and local police departments were made by DJI or Autel.”

“Christopher Wray warns that the Chinese security services present a “broad and unrelenting threat” to US critical infrastructure and are prepared to “wreak havoc.” PRC-made UAS have also been located in restricted airspace, including over Washington, DC. This is despite DJI claiming to have geofencing restrictions, which, in theory, limit where its UAS can operate.”

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I’ve already mentioned a lone wolf group. But..

This came to my mind also due to the proximity to New Jerseys Trump Bedminister golf club, and now Trump Plaza in New York.

What if radical dems are practicing for some sort of major events for Inauguration Day? Or even sooner?

We need laws where local PD are allowed to shoot down hostile drones. And it can’t come soon enough.

Sept 2024

NYPD pushes for broader control over unmanned drones that could pose threat to New York City

“MANHATTAN, New York (WABC) -- As drones, both big and small, increasingly pose a terrorism threat to large cities like New York, the NYPD is pushing for the ability, and right, to take control of an unmanned drone before it can cause damage.

A drone big or small, even with a modest payload, in an area with the urban density of New York City, you have a gigantic problem on your hands,

God forbid if we see a hostile drone our command center will spot it, and we should be able to have that ability to take that drone down immediately from our command center," he said.
But they don't, and only an act of Congress can change that.”

abc7ny.com/post/nypd-push…

Cape May New Jersey also has a UAS (drone system) test range. The prime UAS test range in the North East.

Cape Atlantic UAS test range

NYC/Philly/Baltimore/DC FAA authorized.

(And of course drones were spotted in Cape May also recently.)

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Cape May County, New Jersey through its relationship with the Urban Low Altitude Transport Association, secured a UAS Test Site under the authority of the University of Alaska – Fairbanks bringing the full benefits of the statutory authorization under law. 

Airde manages the test site operations, offering a full suite of risk assessment and management services on behalf of the University through its partnership with the Urban Low Altitude Transport Association.  

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My friend @BenTallmadge01 wanted me to remind you that Obamas ex attorney general, Loretta Lynch, represented a banned Chinese drone company, DJI to get them off the, banned list.

This is Ben’s information, I just made it famous. 😉