KELP closed… for 10 days

[KLB]

They really are hell bent on playing with this new toy!



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[Roger Roger]

They really are hell bent on playing with this new toy!



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Gazillions of square miles of restricted and prohibited areas and the military still insists on playing near civilian airports.

 

[JordanD]

I mean....it's ABQ. You're just lucky when you wake up the next day and the rental car itself is even still there to begin with let alone your belongings.

ABQ (the airport itself) always cracks me up. “Hey guys, we have miles and miles of open, flat land. Where do you wanna put the airport?”
“How about RIGHT next to those mountains over there?”

 

[JordanD]

Gazillions of square miles of restricted and prohibited areas and the military still insists on playing near civilian airports.

If only there was some of that airspace really, really close to ELP. Damn shame.

 

[CFI A&P]

ABQ (the airport itself) always cracks me up. “Hey guys, we have miles and miles of open, flat land. Where do you wanna put the airport?”
“How about RIGHT next to those mountains over there?”

To be fair, the airport was probably there before the mountains.

 

[derg]

Gazillions of square miles of restricted and prohibited areas and the military still insists on playing near civilian airports.

Because…

It’s the Department of WARRRRRRRRRER!

 

[A150K]

ABQ (the airport itself) always cracks me up. “Hey guys, we have miles and miles of open, flat land. Where do you wanna put the airport?”
“How about RIGHT next to those mountains over there?”

Yeah, plenty of space out where the class D airport northwest of town is. There's a lot of residential sprawl up that way now, but that's more of a fairly recent addition. North and south of the city is constrained by a couple of reservations though hence the lack of any kind of development in those directions.

 

[A150K]

Because…

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It’s the Department of WARRRRRRRRRER!

 

[Autothrust Blue]

 

[Minuteman]

Good Morning America is now reporting this as “mistakenly shoots down CBP drone.”

(not inspecting the nuance of “CBP” here)

 

[derg]

Did Alpha Male Pete Hegseth get his pew pew? I hope he had a nice juice box after his nappy-nap.

 

[Minuteman]

KELP is ~38 NM NW of the TFR by Acala-Fort Hancock-McNary TFR and V66 passes ~23 NM north.

I don’t know a whole lot about lot about these laser system, but I suspect they have to have ranging information to focus a beam at a specific distance. So my default instinct is that damage from “stray shots” are not really a thing; there could have to be a targeting error.

Still, I wouldn’t want my eyes to be 10 NM behind a target in the line without more information about the energy & wavelengths.