FAA closes El Paso and New Mexico airspace for 10 days

[jarlrmai]

Sorry if it upset you, but I took your post as a joke. The notion that "advanced laser weapons" should be the standard approach toward a simple balloon struck me as being a ludicrous overkill.

There are many things done by responsible societies to protect people that on the face of might seem overkill, but are there because we value life.

 

[Mendel]

There are many things done by responsible societies to protect people that on the face of might seem overkill, but are there because we value life.

"We're fighting balloons because we're pro-life"??

For drones, weaponry typically includes weapons intended to disrupt its electronics, starting with simple radio/GPS jammers.

 

[Gary C]

There are many things done by responsible societies to protect people that on the face of might seem overkill, but are there because we value life.

The key word being "responsible". Most reporting indicates the lasers were not being operated by trained Army Air Defense branch personnel as part of an integrated air defense network, but rather by the cos-play operators of DHS. The system they were using was not designed or intended for law enforcement use and failure to effect basic coordination with the FAA indicates an utter lack of awareness over the public safety risks of using this technology in air space being transited by civilian aircraft.

The FAA was right in closing the airspace until the situation could be clarified. At least someone was cognizant of just how far off the rails this sort of behavior could go if left unchecked. https://www.metabunk.org/threads/mh...n-ukraine-and-the-netherlands-v-russia.14323/