{"id":59574,"date":"2025-11-25T00:57:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-25T00:57:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/59574\/"},"modified":"2025-11-25T00:57:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-25T00:57:10","slug":"florida-to-use-500-confiscated-chinese-drones-as-live-fire-targets-for-u-s-troops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/59574\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida to use 500+ confiscated Chinese drones as live-fire targets for U.S. troops"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Over 500 Chinese drones confiscated by Florida authorities will be repurposed for military target practice by the U.S. Special Operations Command (SOCOM) at a training event from December 4-6 at Camp Blanding.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Over three days, quadcopter drones will be shot down with shotguns to train elite U.S. troops in counter-drone tactics. This event, called the Military Drone Crucible, is designed to prepare troops for situations involving enemy drones.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">According to Bloomberg News, Nate Ecelbarger, President of the U.S. National Drone Association (USNDA), stated, \u201cIt will be the largest counter-drone destruction event ever held in the United States.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Military Drone Crucible includes training sessions on clearing rooms with enemy troops and targeting enemy convoys.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wftv.com\/mobile-apps\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Click here;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Click here<\/a> to download our free news, weather and smart TV apps. And <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wftv.com\/video\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:click here;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">click here<\/a> to stream Channel 9 Eyewitness News live.<\/p>\n<p><a data-ylk=\"ct:story;elm:img;itc:0;\" class=\"stretched-box\" href=\"https:\/\/wftvapps.com\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\"><img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"537\" height=\"108\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/beda08358d6db9816e7b0d066edd22cf.jpeg\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Over 500 Chinese drones confiscated by Florida authorities will be repurposed for military target practice by the U.S.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":59575,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[36226,36225,28,36223,30,29,36227,36228,36224],"class_list":["post-59574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-camp-blanding","tag-enemy-troops","tag-florida","tag-florida-authorities","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news","tag-military-drone","tag-nate-ecelbarger","tag-quadcopter-drones"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59574","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59574"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59574\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59575"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}