The Pentagon, CBP and the FAA said in a statement that the military mitigated “a seemingly threatening unmanned aerial system operating within military airspace.”
The U.S. government said it would do better to communicate between agencies after the military reportedly used a laser to shoot down a Customs and Border Protection drone in Texas on Thursday.
Some Democratic members of Congress, including the ranking members of the House Homeland Security and Transportation committees, called the incident another example of “incompetence.”
It comes two weeks after CBP used a military laser to shoot down what turned out to be party balloons in Texas, which caused the temporary closure of El Paso’s airspace.
IIRC, its a 10 mile radius around any military base that is a no fly zone for drones. CBP fucked around and found out.
Pew pew
Our tax dollars being used to fly drones that get shot down by lasers feels like an onion article
Our tax dollars being used to shoot down our tax dollars being operated by our tax dollars with our tax dollars
Our borrowed against future tax dollars dollars, being used to shoot down our borrowed against future tax dollars dollars…
Cool.
Could you guys just like… grab that laser and follow ice around?
At least this time it was some one’s toy I don’t mind making cry.
