Saturday, May 6, 2017

Footage From U.S. Military Drones Are Accidentally Streamed On The Internet



Daily Mail: Leaked drone footage reveals fishing boats and vacationers on jet-skiers in Florida are being used as 'dummy targets' by the US military

* Footage from military drones was accidentally streamed on the internet on Wednesday
* The drones were recording above the Florida coast, aimed at civilian jet-skiers
* The video was recorded in February by Predator drones, which are used to record an area before a missile is dropped
* Experts have deduced the civilians were being used as 'dummy targets'

Military drone recordings were accidentally streamed on the internet.

The US government appears to have accidentally streamed footage of a military-style drone.

The video appears to be recording thousands of feet above northwest Florida, over the coast, with the camera aimed at random civilian boaters.

Experts have deduced that the footage came from Predator drones, which are primarily used by the Air Force and CIA to record an area right before a missile is dropped.

Read more ....

Update #1: Not-so-secret DOD “spy drone” footage, live on the Internet [Updated] (Ars Technica)
Update #2: Uh, Did Someone Leave US Surveillance Drone Feeds Live on the Public Internet? (MotherBoard)

WNU Editor: That's something that you do not see everyday. As to the quality of the video itself .... I am still surprised that the quality is not as good as it should be.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

This is normal; back in the late 1980's we used to roll in on cruise ships for practice after our air to air gunnery training (in which I was an instructor). We had no live weapons and there is absolutely no danger.

D.Plowman said...

"WNU Editor: That's something that you do not see everyday. As to the quality of the video itself .... I am still surprised that the quality is not as good as it should be. "

It's someone recording the monitor with a phone or some other device. That's why the quality is so low, not to mention you can see the browser up top.

I'm actually surprised at how low-tech that whole interface looks. It looks like something you'd see out of an 80's arcade machine for a flight sim.