FAA closes El Paso and New Mexico airspace for 10 days

[Dave51c]

Your sources don't support that.

I know, sorry it was interpreted it as such. EMF and pacemakers is a thing though.

 

[Gary C]

Other solutions offered by current DOW contractor Anduril Industries are integrated Counter UAS (anti-drone) defense systems built around their own hunter-killer drones. I like that these systems include the capability to correctly characterize and confirm the nature of the target, all weather day and night, video record of the encounter with the target, ability to abort the intercept and recover the defensive drone if the target is determined to be uninteresting.

Demonstration on YouTube of the company's "Lattice" product (est 2 minutes) -
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KX0ji1sAXl8


Counter UAS product line on the company website - https://www.anduril.com/counter-uas

 

[MonkeeSage]

News outlets are reporting another FAA airspace closure today around Fort Hancock, Texas, after a reported accidental shoot down of a CBP drone by DoD. A statement was posted on X by the the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure account, and staffers additionally told Reuters the drone was believed to have been shot down with a high-energy laser system.

Excerpt from Reuters article:

Pentagon shoots down government drone in Texas accident, congressional aides say

By David Shepardson
February 26, 20267:11 PM CST

WASHINGTON, Feb 26 (Reuters) - The U.S. military shot down a U.S. government drone with a laser-based anti-drone system, an accident that prompted the Federal Aviation Administration to bar flights on Thursday in an area around Fort Hancock, Texas, congressional aides told Reuters.

The Pentagon did not immediately comment, but the FAA cited "special security reasons" in its notice about the restrictions on the airspace near the Mexican border.

U.S. Representatives Rick Larsen, Bennie Thompson and Andre Carson, top Democrats on committees overseeing aviation and Homeland Security issues, said in a joint statement the Pentagon reportedly shot down a Customs and Border Protection drone, and criticized the lack of coordination.

The lawmakers said they warned months ago that the White House's decision to sidestep a bipartisan proposal to train counter-drone operators and address coordination issues "was a short-sighted idea."

"Now, we're seeing the result of incompetence," the statement said.

Congressional aides told Reuters the Pentagon was believed to have used the high-energy laser system to shoot down the CBP drone near the Mexican border, in an area that often has incursions from Mexican drones used by drug cartels. CBP and the White House did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

Source: https://www.reuters.com/business/ae...ter-reported-use-anti-drone-laser-2026-02-27/

Edit: The above article was updated 1 hour ago and now includes the following:

The Pentagon, Federal Aviation Administration and Customs and Border Protection issued a statement saying the military used a "counter-unmanned aircraft system ... to mitigate a seemingly threatening unmanned aerial system operating within military airspace."

The statement added that the incident "took place far away from populated areas and there were no commercial aircraft in the vicinity. These agencies will continue to work on increased cooperation and communication to prevent such incidents in the future."

Source: https://www.reuters.com/business/ae...ter-reported-use-anti-drone-laser-2026-02-27/

X post:

Ranking Members Larsen, Thompson and Carson
Statement After DOD Reportedly Shot Down CBP Drone

"Our heads are exploding over the news that DoD reportedly shot down a Customs and Border Protection drone using a high risk counter-unmanned aircraft system.

We said MONTHS ago that the White House's decision to sidestep a bipartisan, tri-committee bill to appropriately train C-UAS operators and address the lack of coordination between the Pentagon, DHS and the FAA was a short-sighted idea.

Now, we're seeing the result of its incompetence."

Source: https://x.com/TransportDems/status/2027198549608317278