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Drone Incursions Over Barksdale and Strategic Bases After Launch of Operation Epic Fury

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Summary

The War Zone reports that multiple U.S. bases housing strategic nuclear-capable assets experienced drone-incursions in the weeks after President Trump launched operation-epic-fury against Iran on Feb. 28, 2026. A March 9-15 wave at Barksdale Air Force Base (Louisiana; B-52 Stratofortress base with nuclear weapons storage) involved 12-15 drones per wave with non-commercial signal characteristics, long-range control links, and resistance to jamming; the incident sparked a shelter-in-place order. A separate February incursion at an unspecified strategic installation triggered the first operational use of NORTHCOM’s Flyaway Kit, as Gen. gregory-guillot disclosed to SASC on March 19. Guillot told Sen. eric-schmitt that detections over military installations are up year-over-year and that NORTHCOM can now defeat roughly a quarter of detected drones versus near-zero a year earlier. The article situates the events alongside the December 2023 Langley incursions and the 2025 Ukrainian operation-spider-web near-field attacks on Russian bombers.

Key Claims

  • Barksdale AFB experienced multiple waves of 12-15 drones between March 9-15, 2026, over sensitive flight-line areas.
  • A confidential March 15 briefing document (via ABC News) described drones that “came in waves,” may have been “testing security responses,” and had “long-range control links and resistance to jamming.”
  • The Barksdale incident prompted a shelter-in-place order that was lifted the same day.
  • A separate February 2026 incursion at an unspecified strategic installation prompted NORTHCOM’s first operational FAK deployment; NORTHCOM used the kit’s “jamming protocol.”
  • NORTHCOM currently has only one FAK; more are due Spring 2026.
  • The deployed kit is produced by anduril and built around its Pulsar RF-detection/jamming system plus drone-on-drone interceptors.
  • Detections over military installations are up year-over-year; defeat rate has risen from near zero to ~25%.
  • Guillot pays particular attention to Whiteman AFB (B-2s used in Epic Fury) and coordinates with STRATCOM’s Adm. A. Correll on strategic-base defense.
  • Barksdale’s B-52s “sit almost entirely out in the open” and are scarce (76 airframes total).
  • Context: Ukraine’s 2025 operation-spider-web turned flightline drone attacks from theoretical to demonstrated.

Notable Quotes

“Between March 9-15, 2026, BAFB Security Forces observed multiple waves of 12-15 drones operating over sensitive areas of the installation, including the flight line, with aircraft displaying non-commercial signal characteristics, long-range control links and resistance to jamming.” — Confidential March 15 briefing document (via ABC News)

“In the early hours of Operation EPIC FURY last month, a deployed [fly-away kit] successfully detected and defeated sUAS operating over a strategic U.S. installation.” — Gen. Gregory Guillot, written SASC testimony

“Whereas a year ago, almost every one that was detected was not defeated, now about a quarter of the ones that we detect we’re able to defeat.” — Gen. Gregory Guillot

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