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One such idea is that it’s acting as a “Dead Hand” signal; in the event Russia is hit by a nuclear attack, the drone will stop and automatically trigger a retaliation. No questions asked, just total nuclear obliteration on both sides.
I bought a shortwave radio just to listen to number stations. There is an album iirc called the conet project that has a collection of them
Wilco used samples of it for their album Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, the name of which comes from one of the clips. That got me into this whole phenomenon.