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Pentagon Laser Shoots Down Customs Border Patrol Drone in Texas

bloomberg.com

28 points by c420 19 days ago · 10 comments

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k310 19 days ago

Accidentally

https://archive.ph/Oh6gF

The same laser system (Locust) shut down El Paso International Airport, apparently defending the U.S. from a party balloon.

  • toomuchtodo 19 days ago

    Godspeed for anyone transiting the airspace where these devices are active.

  • reacharavindh 19 days ago

    I mean, wouldn’t an even slightest clever adversary do just that? Launch a bunch of decoys(party balloons, drones, whatever) amidst one they actually want to actually use as an attack vector? Would the pentagon just play an expensive pew pew and potentially miss the real one?

_DeadFred_ 19 days ago

Crazy they just has to shutdown an airport in a separate incident in Texas on the 12th because they can't get it together on this stuff:

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2026/02/11/us/faa-el-paso-fligh...

What is going on at the Pentagon?

  • connorshinn 19 days ago

    Well the head of the Pentagon is an alcoholic who has no business being in the role, so thats probably contributing to their issues as of late....

verdverm 19 days ago

Are there any that are not own goals or buffoonery?

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