https://asiatimes.com/2026/03/sophisticated-drones-attacked-louisianas-barksdale-bomber-base/

The drone waves lasted around four hours each day, an extraordinarily long loiter time for a drone. It is not known if the drones were fixed wing or quadcopter types, or how they were powered (liquid fuel or electrical. Each wave consisted of 12 to 15 drones, and the drones flew with their lights on, intentionally making them visible.

Barksdale AFB does not have air defenses, nor does it have fighter jets that can take down drones.

The airbase does have some electronic countermeasures that were designed to disable GPS and the datalinks between the drones and their remote operators.

The electronic countermeasures failed to work.

The drones themselves may have been autonomous or semi-autonomous, and operated in ways suggesting the drones were equipped with multiple sensors that directed the behavior of each drone over the base and in response to attempts at jamming.

by ValueChainAdder

6 Comments

  1. Awake_for_days on

    So they didn’t scramble aircraft from other bases? Come on, who really buys this crap??

  2. All of these “drones.”

    4 hours of “waves.”

    But yet, not one shred of video. At all.

    I’m calling bullshit.

  3. What exactly are “sophisticated” drones?

    Are they wearing bow ties and top hats? That’s such a nebulous term.