Drones Flew Over America’s Nuclear Bomber Base for a Week. Nobody Stopped Them.
During the week of March 9, waves of 12-15 unidentified drones repeatedly overflew Barksdale Air Force Base in Louisiana. The base is the command headquarters for Air Force Global Strike Command, ’s entire strategic bomber force, including B-52s capable of carrying nuclear weapons.
The United States was at war. The drones came anyway.
According to a confidential briefing document leaked to ABC News, the drones displayed non-commercial signal characteristics, long-range control links, and resistance to jamming. They varied their routes. They left their lights on, not out of carelessness, but to monitor how the base responded. Analysts called it deliberate reconnaissance.
The Air Force tried to jam them. It did not work.
Barksdale issued a shelter-in-place order on March 9. Flight line operations were halted. B-52s carrying AGM-158 cruise missiles and 30,000-pound bunker buster bombs were grounded. It was the first time a U.S. air base had been temporarily put out of operation in wartime, something that never happened in World War II.
The drones were assessed as far more sophisticated than anything seen in Ukraine, and well beyond Iranian capabilities. No operator has been identified. No one has been caught.
The incident received limited media coverage.
It happened three weeks ago.
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