Chuck Schumer wants answers after another weekend of drone chaos

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) has asked the Department of Homeland Security to supply New York and New Jersey authorities with an precocious drone detection strategy to assistance “determine what the heck is going on” with continued sightings successful the Northeast.

“We’ve seen tons of caller sightings successful New York, New Jersey, Long Island, Staten Island.” Schumer said during a December 15th property conference. “With each these sightings implicit the past while, wherefore bash we person much questions than answers?”

Over the weekend, parts of Stewart International Airport were temporarily unopen down owed to the drone sightings, prompting New York Governor Kathy Hochul to say, “this has gone excessively far.” Drone enactment besides shut down airspace implicit the Wright-Patterson Air Force Base successful Ohio for implicit 4 hours.

President-elect Donald Trump said connected Monday that he’s canceling a travel to Bedminster, New Jersey owed to drone sightings successful the area. He said, “the authorities knows what is happening” and “they’d beryllium amended disconnected saying what it is.”

During a property league connected Sunday, Schumer requested a “360-degree” detection strategy similar the 1 built by Robin Radar Systems. The European institution sells micro-doppler radars that it claims tin separate betwixt birds and drones moving up to 60 miles per hr successful 3D space. Its website features lawsuit studies of its radars being utilized for information astatine airports, during the G7 Summit, and to survey vertebrate migration successful the Netherlands.