Media cited threat to U.S. airports amid drone flights

The growing trend of detecting unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) near U.S. bases both at home and abroad threatens the security of U.S. airports and could lead to national consequences. The news portal Business Insider wrote about this, citing sources.

"This has become a huge problem for both military and civilian airfields, which will worsen as the use of drones continues to spread," Mark Kansian, a defense expert and retired colonel in the U.S. Marine Corps, noted in an interview with BI.

It is noted that from the arrival of unauthorized drones there is a risk of not only disruption of flight operations, but also the emergence of possible leaks of proprietary information.

In addition, as officials confirmed to the portal, the military base in Ohio temporarily closed its airspace before the weekend, after drones were spotted in the area.

Unknown drones over New Jersey became known on December 11. At that time, New Jersey Senator John Bramnick called for a state of emergency to ban the use of drones in response to numerous reports of unknown aircraft sightings in recent weeks.

Later on December 13, US President-elect Donald Trump accused the White House of withholding information about drones over states and called for them to be shot down. Meanwhile, Josh Gottheimer accused the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) of withholding information about drones in the skies over New York. At the same time, a representative of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security said that the U.S. authorities have not yet found confirmation that unidentified drones could pose a threat.

December 17, it was reported that in the state of California over the Marine Corps base were spotted unidentified UAVs. It was specified that from December 9 to 15, six cases of violation of the airspace of the Marine Corps base Camp Pendleton were recorded.