DoD Current and Future U.S. Drone Activities Map
June 12, 2012 in Headline
The following map depicts the approximate locations of current and planned Department of Defense unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) activities inside the U.S. The locations, service branches, and types of UAS flown were obtained from several publicly released DoD presentations. If you are aware of other DoD drone activities in the U.S. not listed below, please let us know.
| Location | Service Branch | Types of UAS | UAS Activities Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fort Lewis, WA | Army, Special Operations Command | Shadow, Wasp, Raven | Current |
| Joint Base Lewis-McChord, WA | Special Operations Command | Wasp, Raven | Future |
| Portland, OR | Special Operations Command | Wasp, Raven | Future |
| Arlington, OR | Special Operations Command | Scan Eagle | Current |
| Limestone Hills Training Area, MT | Special Operations Command | Wasp, Raven | Current |
| Grand Forks Air Force Base, ND | Air Force | Global Hawk, Predator | Future |
| Camp Ripley, MN | Army | Shadow | Current |
| Beale Air Force Base, CA | Air Force | Global Hawk | Current |
| Moffett Air Field, CA | Army | RMAX | Future |
| Fort Ord, CA | Army | RMAX | Future |
| Camp Roberts, CA | Special Operations Command | Wasp, Raven | Future |
| Simi Valley, CA | Army | Raven, Warrior, Puma-AE | Current |
| Naval Air Station Point Mugu, CA | Navy | Global Hawk, BAMS | Future |
| Camp Pendleton, CA | Special Operations Command | Wasp, Raven | Future |
| El Mirage, CA | Army | Wasp | Current |
| Palmdale, CA | Air Force | Global Hawk | Current |
| 29 Palms, CA | Marine Corps | Shadow, Raven | Current |
| Victorville, CA | Army, Special Operations Command | Raven, A160 Hummingbird | Current |
| Fort Irwin, CA | Army | Unknown | Current |
| Creech Air Force Base, NV | Air Force | Predator, Reaper | Current |
| Dugway, UT | Army | Hunter, Shadow | Current |
| Camp Williams, UT | Special Operations Command | Wasp, Raven | Future |
| Fort Huachuca, AZ | Army | Warrior | Current |
| Cochise, AZ | Army | Hunter | Current |
| Holloman Air Force Base, NM | Army, Air Force | Preadtor, Reaper | Current |
| Cannon Air Force Base, NM | Air Force | Preadtor, Reaper | Current |
| Santa Fe, NM | Army | Raven | Current |
| Laguna, NM | Army | gMAV | Current |
| Fort Carson, CO | Army, Special Operations Command | Shadow, Wasp, Raven | Future |
| United States Air Force Academy, CO | Air Force | Viking 300, Scan Eagle | Current |
| Piñon Canyon Maneuver Site, CO | Army | Raven | Current |
| Fort Riley, KS | Army | Shadow | Current |
| Fort Worth, TX | Army | Raven | Current |
| Hondo, TX | Army, Navy | Unknown | Current |
| Longhorn, TX | Army | Unknown | Current |
| Fort Hood, TX | Army | Hunter | Current |
| Robert Gray Army Airfield, Fort Hood, TX | Army | Hunter | Current |
| Camp Bullis, TX | Special Operations Command | Wasp, Raven | Current |
| Fort Polk, LA | Army | Raven | Current |
| Woodworth, LA | Army | Unknown | Current |
| Stennis Space Center, MS | Special Operations Command | Wasp, Raven, Puma-AE | Current |
| Fort Campbell, KY | Army, Special Operations Command | Shadow, Wasp, Raven | Current |
| Camp Shelby, MS | Army | Shadow | Current |
| Redstone Arsenal, AL | Army | Shadow | Current |
| Fort Benning, GA | Army | Shadow | Current |
| Camp Atterbury, IN | Special Operations Command | Tiger Moth | Current |
| Louisville, KY | Special Operations Command | Wasp, Raven | Future |
| Fort Knox, KY | Army | Shadow | Current |
| Patriot, KY | Special Operations Command | Warrior, Raven, Puma-AE, Shadow | Future |
| Kenova, WV | Special Operations Command | Wasp, Raven | Future |
| Robbins Air Force Base, GA | Air Force | Predator | Future |
| Wright Army Airfield, Fort Stewart, GA | Army | Hunter | Current |
| Evans, GA | Army | Shadow | Current |
| Camp Blanding, FL | Special Operations Command | Wasp, Raven | Future |
| Choctaw, FL | Special Operations Command | Wasp, Raven. Puma-AE, Shadow | Current |
| Hurlburt Field, FL | Air Force | Wasp, Raven | Future |
| Eglin Air Force Base, FL | Special Operations Command | Wasp, Raven | Future |
| Key West, FL | Special Operations Command | Wasp, Raven | Current |
| Homestead, FL | Special Operations Command | Wasp, Raven | Current |
| Okeechobee, FL | Army | Raven | Current |
| Fort A.P. Hill, VA | Army | RMAX | Current |
| Blackstone Army Airfield, VA | Army | Shadow | Current |
| Fort Indiantown Gap, PA | Army | Shadow | Current |
| Fort Bragg, NC | Army | Raven | Current |
| Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point, NC | Special Operations Command, Marine Corps | Shadow, Warrior, Raven | Current |
| Fort Eustis, VA | Army | Vigilante | Current |
| Naval Air Station Pax River, MD | Navy | Global Hawk, BAMS | Current |
| Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, NJ | Army | Spyder | Current |
| Fort Drum, NY | Army, Air Force, Special Operations Command | Predator, Shadow | Future |
| Syracuse, NY | Air Force | Reaper | Future |
| Griffiss Air Force Base, Oneida County, NY | Special Operations Command | Rascal | Future |
| Mount Washington, NH | Special Operations Command | Wasp, Raven | Current |
| Ladd Army Airfield, AK | Army | Shadow | Current |
| Allen Army Airfield, AK | Army | Shadow | Current |
| Fort Wainwright, AK | Army | Shadow, Raven | Current |
| Bryant Army Heliport, Fort Richardson, AK | Army | Shadow | Current |
| Fort Greely, AK | Army | Shadow | Current |
| Marine Corps Air Station Kaneohe Bay, HI | Navy | Raven | Current |
| Wheeler Army Airfield, HI | Army | Shadow | Current |
| Ellington Air Force Base, TX | Air Force | Predator, Global Hawk | Future |
| Edwards Air Force Base, CA | Air Force | Unknown | Current |
| Davis-Monathan Air Force Base, AZ | Air Force | Predator, Reaper | Current |
| March Air Force Base, CA | Air Force | Predator | Current |
| Southern California Logistics Airport, CA | Air Force | Predator | Current |
| Nellis Air Force Base, NV | Air Force | Predator | Current |
| Fargo, ND | Air Force | Predator | Current |
| Ellsworth Air Force Base, SD | Air Force | Predator | Future |
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This doesn’t include the private companies that develop the UAVs and train pilots.
Living in So Cal and having some knowledge of this I can tell you there are bases that are counted on here at least twice that are the same base. That being said is this really any surprise to anyone? When the government stored regular reconnaissance planes at these very sites no-one said anything. I understand it is much easier to fly a drone over us than a recon plane, but there are how many spy satellites over us at any one time anyway? If the government wants to spy on us they will, not that I agree they have the right too. Unfortunately politicians on both sides of the aisle seem to feel it is their right to trounce on the Constitution and grab as much power as possible.
This is classified material. Who leaked this? No one is supposed to know we are going to murder them before we murder them or they could figure out how to avoid us murdering them! And that simply cannot be allowed! we must be able to kill whenever and whoever we want! Its not fair! we are better than the other animals that are just like us! STOP interfering with our plans to pwn you all from the cradle to the grave! Just stop it, you people that I consider much dumber than myself, because I said so! Must kill more people! must kill all the worthless eaters! then maybe I can get a woman to like me?
Truer words never spoken!
Their plans for us are more dark than we can imagine!
Fort Ord, CA Army RMAX Future
Gee, you guys do know Fort Ord no longer operates as an Army base, right? How many others are incorrect?
Every location on this map was taken from a publicly available U.S. Air Force presentation available at the following URL:
http://www.afceaboston.com/documents/events/cnsatm2011/Briefs/03-Wednesday/Wednesday-PM%20Track-2/02-LtCol%20Howard-GBSAA%20Safety%20Case-%20Wednesday%20Track2.pdf
That doesn’t mean it’s accurate.
This recent DoD report to congress confirms the majority of the sites on the map:
http://publicintelligence.net/dod-report-to-congress-on-future-uas-operations/
So, yes it is accurate, for the most part. The information used to make this map is slightly older than the report to congress, which creates some discrepancies.
Fort Ord has largely been decommissioned but there are many government and army facilities there which are still in operation. I have also seen that those agencies have used Fort Hunter Ligget (another Monterey County military base) for demonstrations of their drone technology (as reported in the press.)
The briefing referenced above is from the Air Force Safety Center, not “RPA” (drone) operators. The “activities” referenced in the briefing are therefore reasonably interpreted as “safety activities”, which does not necessarily equate to “drone bases” (could also be depots, PMOs, etc.). I suspect this rather ham-handed stunt will be refuted fairly soon.
Here’s an example of what I’m talking about:
“Air Force officials announced today Davis Monthan Air Force Base, Ariz.; Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii; and Shaw Air Force Base, S.C., as the candidate bases for one active duty Air Force MQ-1/9 remote split operations squadron.
The list of candidate bases was approved by Secretary of the Air Force Michael Donley and Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Norton Schwartz.
These bases are now candidates to accept a single active duty MQ-1/9 RSO squadron consisting of 280 personnel and associated equipment. No remotely piloted aircraft will be assigned to the base under this action, only a ground control station.”
http://www.defense.gov/releases/release.aspx?releaseid=14870
First, the presentation clearly states that the map is of RPA activities across the entire DoD, not “safety activities”. Second, there are nearly a dozen other versions of the same map in Air Force and DoD presentations that have nothing to do with the Air Force Safety Center. In fact, a report from DoD released earlier this week lists more than 110 sites where drone activities are planned or underway:
http://publicintelligence.net/dod-report-to-congress-on-future-uas-operations/
The report’s information largely matches the information provided in the map above. Third, you’ve asserted a point based on a random press release and a misreading of source material to which you have complete access. This misreading rests entirely on your “reasonable interpretation” of something directly refuted by the material you are interpreting. You will also notice that we never refer to the activities as “drone bases”. That was done by reporters and we are not responsible for the way they interpret the information we provide.
These are coming,30,000 for continental u.s.,what happens when one crashes in a populated area,just like terminator machines searching for humans and killing them,and what about the device to look through your roof,walls,i guess it doesnt matter,americans are the laughing stock of the world for being sheepie,the military industrial complex along with oil companies,drug companies,insurance companies,along with the fed run this country,the bill of rights is being destroied,so is the constition,we are haeded to a police state period,hell were already thereits going to get rough the powers that wants complete domination of the masses are completing their agenda,i worr for my kids,grand kids,actually i hope the ancients were right,either all knowledge will be shared by all peoples,on no knowledge will be shared by anyone.
Two weeks ago, in early June while coming home from work, I saw a predator drone flying over Lawrence County, PA. In particular, it was flying in the area of southern Wilmington Township and northern Neshannock Township (several miles north of New Castle, PA.). Being retired Army with 2 tours in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom, I am familiar with drones. Also, last week, June 13, 2012, one of my older children saw a strange looking aircraft flying over the New Castle, PA area. She said it wasn’t like any plane she has ever seen before. She thought it may have been a drone.
they are flying one over washington county ohio along the river where the power plants are (musking-river)
The location of Patriot, Kentucky is supposed to be Patriot, Indiana. There is not a town/city named Patriot.
Also, I believe that the Patriot location is really Corbin, Kentucky from a DoD report. I do not know why it is there, being Corbin has a population of around 7,000.
DoD report: http://www.fas.org/irp/program/collect/uas-future.pdf
Lexington, Kentucky is also on this base list.
Hope this will help.
I just saw one over Oakland, NJ today 07-22-12. I was looking up and saw the thing but couldn’t get my camera out in time. It almost looked like a large dark grey rectangle with two sets of wings. Freaked me out until I stumbled upon this website and have been watching the news about how the US needs to do surveillance on us now. Looks like we better find John Conner, Starnet is up!!!. Next there will be Terminators everywhere. Crazy stuff is going down.