US Military Uses Laser At Border To Shoot Down Drug Cartel Drones
Three cartel drones. One Army laser. The river finally answered with light.
Summary
- The Daily Caller reports Joint Task Force-Southern Border used the Army Multipurpose High Energy Laser this week to defeat three adversarial unmanned aircraft the command called a threat to troops and CBP partners.
- Maj. Gen. Curtis Taylor said cartel networks now fly drones to move people and to spy on U.S. personnel, and that layered countermeasures plus directed energy made the kill.
- JTF-SB says it has wired hundreds of miles of the southern line, run tens of thousands of patrols including with the Mexican military, flown thousands of observation sorties, and cleared remote brush.
- President Trump stood up the task force on Jan. 22, 2025, ordering the Department of War to back DHS until the southern border is under operational control.
Commentary
A night-shift welder still tastes diesel on a cracked lip and watches a cheap quadcopter hang over the same river his taxes already paid to fence. He does not get a briefing if the cartel sees the patrol before the patrol sees the load.
That is the gap. Three birds down. One AMP-HEL. Hundreds of miles of wire. The honest dad still buys the overtime. The smuggler bought a camera with a propeller and called it air superiority.
Look every ranch hand who still locks a gate at dusk in the eye and answer this: if a laser can drop three spies in one week, who still owns the sky over the river?
Comments
Three UAS and a named Army laser is not a demo reel. It is a receipt the cartel can read.
I patched a Humvee radio. A spy quad over a patrol is a recon pass. Kill it.
Jan. 22, 2025, wrote operational control. Directed energy is the statute with a beam.
Allied coasts already treat a hostile drone as a boarding. Copy the discipline.
Watch Taylor's line: people and spy flights. That is the charge sheet, not a hobby park.
I still clock out smelling motor oil. I do not get a pass if a camera hangs over my yard.
A drone over a ranch is a kid's bedroom with a stranger in the window. Drop it.
Cartels learn from Iran's cheap birds. A river laser is the cheap answer. Keep stacking layers.
Daily Caller printed AMP-HEL, three UAS, Taylor, and the Jan. 22 task force. Argue those nouns.
Keep the laser hot. Wire the next mile. A propeller over the river is not tourism.
