Playing with the Navy

[R.Perry]

I have a nephew that is stationed in San Diego, he's been in the Navy for about twelve years now. He just told me an interesting story. There is an island "San Clemente Island". The Navy has used that island for many years and what they do there is classified.

Well, some bright soul decided to launch a drone off a small boat and overfly the island. He said it was last seen coming apart in air most likely from some small arms fire or shotgun. The owner of the drone got acquainted the Navy, and most likely not in a positive way.

I once heard a comedian make a statement, "you can't fix stupid" and that most certainly does apply to people that do such things. By the way, The Navy Seals do some of their training on San Clemente Island, don't know what they do there, but I bet they have lots of fire power.

 

[RNCotton]

But sirs .... only the northern portion of the island is listed as a NFZ. Why did you shoot down my drone?

 

[muguvian]

The Sea Range Complex is run by the Naval Air Warfare Center - Weapons Division and includes San Nicholas Island but can be expanded to use San Clemente. Lots goes on there sub-, surface-, and airborne-wise, including live-fire tests/training for small to very large arms as well as remote target aircraft flights. Highly instrumented and monitored, you'd be an idiot to mess with it. And then an incarcerated idiot if you did.

 

[LUIS MARTINEZ]

A warning area around the entire island. Up to the pilot to check NOTAMS for hours. Seems like asking for trouble...

 

[R.Perry]

Interesting, I suppose they would have every right to shoot down a drone that wasn't suppose to be there during military operations. As stated messing with the military is a really bad idea.