[baybal2]

> https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/36085/troubling-drone-...

Looks like an unashemed intimidation operation, given that there is nowhere in Guam a civilian can bring a car sized quadcopter, and island's tiny population.

It pretty much screams of somebody trying to say "we can fly our foo-drones over your missile battereys, and ship any time"

Of all countries, there is only one on record with car sized, gas powered quadcopters.

[brutusborn]

Which country?

[baybal2]

Guess the country

https://dronemadness.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/Gas-Powe...

And the secon possible is the Unihawk family from Efy Tech

https://www.efy-tech.com/en/file/upload/2019/06/11/156040236...

[kamaal]

It seems far fetched to imagine any country would intimidate a power like US flying their easily recognisable drones. Just the risk of an accident causing a crash into the ship, and igniting a bigger conflict is sufficient enough for any country to not attempt such a thing. There are better ways to test your tech than doing something like this to a super power.

Also not sure how they were confident enough to deduce it was a drone. Clearly it was like 1000-1500 feet above them in dark.

We just chose to call a UFO a UAV. That's what I learned from the article.

Or.

May be it was just a test. They wanted to see how people would handle a situation like that.

[baybal2]

> It seems far fetched to imagine any country would intimidate a power like US flying their easily recognisable drones

"intimidate a power like US" is what China, and Russia are doing with monthly regularity around the world with zero pushback.

The only time ever USA gave a direct response was this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Khasham and even that was made more out of fear than a deliberate pushback, despite it sending kremlin into weeks long stupor.

[brabel]

Not to defend China or Russia, but you seem to think the USA is completely innocent and does not constantly intimidate anyone it thinks is not an ally (sometimes it does it even allies). Guam is actually a great example. Why do you think the USA keeps a military base on such an isolated location, really far from its shores? In fact, the USA has literal guns pointed at the head of every country in the world[1]. Saying that someone is intimidating the USA without pushbacks is laughable.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_military...

[totalZero]

Guam is a long-held US territory (stretching back to the Spanish-American War) that was occupied by the Japanese during WW2. It would be strange for the US military to not maintain a base there.

[girvo]

The Chinese CH-4 perhaps? Not sure.