Friday, February 19, 2016

Mexican Cartels Have A Drone Fleet At The U.S. Border



FOX News: Mexican cartels patrol border with drones – and U.S. has no response

There are legions of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) patrolling the U.S.-Mexico border, and they do not belong to the United States. They are owned and operated by Mexican drug cartels, and there’s nothing we can currently do to stop them.

The proliferation of small, cheap UAVs (aka drones) has raised a litany of security concerns, from interference with commercial aviation to possible delivery systems for weapons. Along the U.S. southern border, the Mexican cartels are operating drones as intelligence gathering tools. Cartels traditionally have employed falcones (Spanish for falcons)—people who perch on points along the border to monitor border patrol movements, collecting information that smugglers could exploit to outmaneuver America’s border security efforts.

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WNU Editor: These Mexican cartel drones first started a few years ago (see above video) .... but I suspect that they are now far more sophisticated today.

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