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re: Mystery drones flying over Barksdale AFB

Posted on 3/21/26 at 8:50 am to
Posted by Dixie2023
Member since Mar 2023
5159 posts
Posted on 3/21/26 at 8:50 am to
That’s what I’d think. Shoot them down.
Posted by Captain Rumbeard
Member since Jan 2014
7093 posts
Posted on 3/21/26 at 8:52 am to
I used to work in the cyber innovation center. We had a house in Stonebridge that the company used to keep people here without hotels, do meetings, etc. To get to my office I had to use a key on a lanyard ID to get in the building, then past the guard, then on the elevator, then the door to the hall, then the door to our office. The building was built to CIA specifications for security from outside and in. There were other offices in there that were all the big military industrial contractors. I saw in one when the door was open once. They had large very cool models of planes. Modern as hell planes. We were targets of the Chinese for just working for that company. They went after my social media the same day I mentioned I was working for them.
You'd be amazed to see what all happens up here that the locals have no idea about. Chinese spies would be pretty much guaranteed to be there so them buying Stonebridge comes as zero surprise. They probably get generals pretty regularly even though Barksdale has a golf course. I've hung out with CIA that were working for a non profit at that clubhouse.
Posted by marcnbc
Bossier City, LA
Member since May 2004
4536 posts
Posted on 3/21/26 at 9:07 am to
Barksdale’s golf course closed a couple of years ago. A good friend of mine was the GM of the course 10 years ago or so.
Posted by jeffsdad
Member since Mar 2007
24831 posts
Posted on 3/21/26 at 9:07 am to
One day we will wake up and find out we have lost half our long range bombers to a bunch of 500$ drones with small explosives latched on them.

I guess the military will THEN say, “we gotta do something about that!”
Posted by Captain Rumbeard
Member since Jan 2014
7093 posts
Posted on 3/21/26 at 9:09 am to
Honestly, that's the reason I'm talking about this. I want to know if anyone else sees it. There's a video from a guy on X that looks a lot like it that he shot locally. There's two versions of this thing that I've seen. One is as described. Random flashes. No sequence to it. Static.

The other I saw to the north a couple years ago was like looking through a cloud at a really massive object that's sparkling like crazy with hundreds of these twinkles in one area of the sky. Haven't seen it look like that over Barksdale though. Those seem to be static mostly.
Posted by Night Vision
Member since Feb 2018
21833 posts
Posted on 3/21/26 at 9:14 am to
Surprised they let them close the golf course. Just about any base of normal size or larger still has one.

Retirees used to pour in there towing their golf carts on little trailers every morning.

Posted by BitBuster
Lafayette
Member since Dec 2017
1806 posts
Posted on 3/21/26 at 9:36 am to
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So the Chinese are taking all the pictures they want so they know how many planes are out there and where to attack. They also said on the story that our jamming systems didn’t do anything. I’m guessing they are doing this at all of our bases like they were doing in the Northeast last year and nothing happened. Why aren’t we taking these down.


Let's say they are Chinese. They're counting how many bombers are there on any given day. They don't care about the missions these planes are flying on, they just want data as to what's there.

We know they know this.

We let them fly drones over our bases because we're using them as a honeypot. We get to spy on their tech and observe their surveillance tactics.

They know we have Jewish Space Lasers - er.. anti-drone lasers that could take them down at any time.

So they know, that we know, that they know that we know.
Posted by Mr. Misanthrope
Cloud 8
Member since Nov 2012
6421 posts
Posted on 3/21/26 at 10:28 am to
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The instant I notice them they blink out. And I see them only over Barksdale. And if I try to see them, I don't see them. But do something else, like pissing in my back yard and glance up and I'll see one or two.
Sorry. Couldn’t resist.

Schrödinger’s Drones?
Posted by marcnbc
Bossier City, LA
Member since May 2004
4536 posts
Posted on 3/21/26 at 10:32 am to
Here’s what they did with the golf course.

“Welcome to the FSS Multiplex at Fox Run! Today, we open a new chapter for Barksdale Air Force Base with a vibrant, multi-purpose Morale, Welfare and Recreation (MWR) facility that reflects the needs of our base community. The goal is to continually improve the quality of life for our Airmen and their families.”

LINK
Posted by uscpuke
Member since Jan 2004
6301 posts
Posted on 3/21/26 at 10:42 am to
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But do something else, like pissing in my back yard
Posted by BrianKellysbuyout
Member since Nov 2025
1563 posts
Posted on 3/21/26 at 11:11 am to
Something doesn't add up here. Unidentified drones flying around bases and we're not shooting them down or sending up jets? I know we can't react to every bird in the sky, but they must have had an idea of what they were and that they weren't threatening. Gotta be some half-truths here.
Posted by MSUDawg98
Bear the F Down
Member since Jan 2018
13833 posts
Posted on 3/21/26 at 11:30 am to
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Unidentified drones were detected by U.S. officials above the Washington, D.C., Army base where Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth live.
This is a bigger issue than if they were sniffing around Vance's home. Marco is highly likely to be the nominee in two years and is a hardliner against Cuba. I would argue an attack on him would be the worst thing to happen to our country (just after a presidential assassination).
Posted by Twenty 49
Shreveport
Member since Jun 2014
21313 posts
Posted on 3/21/26 at 3:36 pm to
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We were targets of the Chinese for just working for that company. They went after my social media the same day I mentioned I was working for them.


Were you ever trained to not broadcast where you worked?
Posted by Eightballjacket
Member since Jan 2016
8022 posts
Posted on 3/21/26 at 3:46 pm to
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Were you ever trained to not broadcast where you worked?

I know laborers who act with more discretion, although they are avoiding workmans compensation investigators instead of Chinese spies.
Posted by jeffsdad
Member since Mar 2007
24831 posts
Posted on 3/21/26 at 3:47 pm to
Some patriot should just homo the b52s with pink spray bombs to prove how vulnerable they are
Posted by IndianPower
Louisiana
Member since May 2021
1811 posts
Posted on 3/21/26 at 3:54 pm to
Fact!

And those commie bastards own 2 "country club/golf courses" right beside the AFB on the north and south.
Posted by SLIPSHITE
Doyline, LA
Member since Jul 2019
1563 posts
Posted on 3/21/26 at 5:09 pm to
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One day we will wake up and find out we have lost half our long range bombers to a bunch of 500$ drones with small explosives latched on them. I guess the military will THEN say, “we gotta do something about that!”


Think we have 52 bombers at Barksdale and the other 13 are at Minot. Someone could cripple our B52 fleet in 30 min.
Posted by Captain Rumbeard
Member since Jan 2014
7093 posts
Posted on 3/21/26 at 5:20 pm to
It was the first day. I hadn't even gotten my own badge yet, much less training. I really had no idea what they'd been up to before I got there.
Posted by jeffsdad
Member since Mar 2007
24831 posts
Posted on 3/21/26 at 5:48 pm to
I use to live 3 blocks from the base.

And yes, easily.
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