Fire officials in Southern California informed the FAA that a firefighting aircraft struck a drone Thursday as it was flying over the largest of the region’s fires near the Los Angeles County coast, the agency said.

https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/california-wildfires/drone-palisades-fire/3600068/

I don’t know about the USA or other countries, but in the UK and Canada the CAA & its Canadian equivalent have introduced (more) regulations to control *all* UAVs inc. Were I you I would be cautious in a call for immediate action as knee-jerk reponses usually create bad and (often) unworkable legislation. The BMFA (British Model Flying Assoc.) had to work very hard to prevent the UK legislation killing aeromodelling in the UK stone dead.

Although I think some of the CAA’s regulations for model aircraft flight are unduly restrictive – the current bone of contention is mandatory RC dethermalisers for Free Flight models – I am prepared to accept them as a means of reducing the sort of idiocy reported in the link below.

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-derbyshire-64241328

Imagine this problem being allowed to fester if a terror group had organized a massive drone attack on infrastructure here, which is well within the bounds of feasibility. Is that what it’s gonna take to get some action? Or an airliner forced down by a collision?

It’s not going to be good for fan blades or windscreens.

How do you calculate that? IMHO if I drop a solid 1kg weight from 1m onto a concrete floor the impact force is ENORMOUS. If the weight stops in .1mm it will require at least 10000 G of acceleration, f=m*a, so we get a force of about 10^5 N.

If we assume the drone creates a 10cm dent into the airplane, a 11.25kg drone hitting an airplane going 125m/s. I get 7800 G, f = m.a , so about 860kN of force. almost 200000 pounds of force. But this heavily depends on the dent that the drone makes in the plane. In this case I assumed a 10cm, 4″ dent. And when the damage remains a 10cm dent… there is no problem. Sure: An expensive repair, but no casualties.

That suggestion is a recipe for disaster.

States don’t have more knowledge or wisdom than national government agencies. Today, they aren’t much different from other states as they were when the country was founded. Also, State governments are cheaper and easier to influence, as has been shown.