US Military Uses Laser At Border To Shoot Down Drug Cartel Drones

August 28, 2026 6:16 PM ET The U.S. military employed laser technology this week to take down cartel drones at the border, according to a statement from the Joint Task Force-Border Security (JTF-SB).According to the statement, the military used the laser technology against “three adversarial unmanned aircraft systems (

U.S. troops used a high-energy laser to intercept three hostile drones along the southern border on Tuesday night into Wednesday. Joint Task Force — Southern Border (JTF-SB) used the Army Multipurpose High Energy Laser (AMP-HEL) system to intercept the drones, which U.S. troops had determined “based on their use in dir

The U.S. military said Thursday that it shot down three drones operated by drug cartels at the U.S.-Mexico border using a laser.

The U.S. military used a laser in southern Texas’ Rio Grande Valley to shoot down three Mexican drug cartel drones this week near the U.S.-Mexico border.

ATHENS, Aug 27 - An air defence system operated by Greek military personnel in Saudi Arabia intercepted a swarm of drones on Thursday in the wider Yanbu region, home to major oil refining facilities, Greek security sources told Reuters.

The NCB has seized 5.16 kg of high-grade heroin worth crores and arrested its mastermind and two traffickers.

Facing a far larger Chinese military presence at sea, the Philippines is looking to drones not as a substitute for warships and aircraft but as a relatively low-cost way to make its forces harder to find, suppress and outmanoeuvre, analysts have said. The administration of President Ferdinand Marcos Jnr has focused on

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He said the state can temporarily take control of critical infrastructure sites if private owners fail to protect them from Ukrainian drone attacks.

Germany struggling to deploy drone defence systems, industry says  euractiv.com