hostile drone threats in the area. and it s simply used rf jamming to block that signal from my understanding to knock that drone out of the sky. those rut systems that a lot of these naval ships are having to use because you never know if the iranians are going to conduct a drone strike. steve: sure. and at the very least, you don t know if it s armed you, but it is an eye in the sky so that the iranians with review targets of opportunity. that s the biggest problem. it s one thing to have drones flying around the persian gulf conducting surveillance. it s very difficult to determine if these iranian drones are up there just conducting standard surveillance or if they are up there ready to conduct a strike. you don t have the opportunity to do that. you have to make split second decisions. we are talking about this drone only 1,000 yards away from this ship. they absolutely had to make a quick decision to take it down and we better be safe than sorry. steve: all right. bretvel voyeu
areas and looks for friendly or hostile drone threats. what they did in this case was they found a hostile threat from this iranian drone, they jammed the senate from the drone which basically can knock it out of the sky or force it to return home. either way the whole system is designed to create this virtual bubble around these ships to not only detect these threats, but also mit game them should that be necessary. thank you so much for your insight. we re following breaking news out of the white house. the president changing his tune on those send her back chants at his rally. now he s defiant, and he s praising the crowd that yesterday he was saying, he did something he didn t like. just in from the justice department, more than 3,000 federal inmates are about to walk free. details on who s getting out as early as today. senator bernie sanders in the hot seat over the $15 minimum
hand, which is a safety and security of air airports and our city against on misuse of dron drones. the faa says it is working to identify and respond to drone threats, but they say what is really needed is a nationwide system that did tax thought location and presence of a drone and whoever is operating it. talk companies, they have contracts with a dozen airports were about a million dollars a year. their system uses rooftop sensors and radio frequencies to detect drones an unauthorized airspace fear just from a financial aspect, the chaos caused by a drone flying around an airport is equal to roughly $400,000 a minute, a big reason why anti-15 technology is it taking off at airports around the world. sandra: all right. two left wing candidates
is this overreach or is it necessary? i think it is necessary but we haven t gotten to the point that we can tackle this problem at the level it needs to happen. the fact that law enforcement entities, the faa, don t have the ability to mitigate these drone threats is pretty absurd. they should already have the authority to protect our national interest and citizens and to be able to shoot down any rogue drones that may prove a danger to our country. heather: how real is the threat? this is what secretary nielsen said to congressman mccall, the threat is real, commercially available drones can be employed by terrorists and criminals to deliver harmful substances, disrupt communications and conduct illicit surveillance, our hands are tied when it comes to regarding americans against these threats. it is not a matter of if but