Why you shouldn’t try to shoot down a suspected drone.... or so the government wants us to believe.

Probably because they belong to the U.S. government.

https://www.cnn.com/2024/12/16/us/shooting-flying-drones-us-sky/index.html

But come on! Does anyone seriously think charges would be brought against anyone if a shot-down drone was extra-terrerestrial in origin? Or even from Iran?

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ElwoodBlues · M

Depends where the shot-down object crashes. If it causes injury and/or monetary damage - they're flying over densely populated NJ - you could be liable.

I assume the drones are US security and/or military. I assume the drones are testing out some new technical capability like pinpointing locations of all the cell phones in a mile wide stripe, or computing detailed 3D maps of urban terrain, or something like that. I assume whatever capability they have is being developed for future urban conflict zones. As such, I find them interesting but not threatening.