Prayers for the guardians of the border. Combat pay is in order.

Nice, now the cartels have put themselves in the same enemy category as the ISIS members just bombed out of existence in Yemen. This taxpayer approves of such use of our military.

Ya, that's not going to end well for the cartels. If the cartels, now designated as terrorists, don't think that Trump is having them tracked and targeted, they are in for a rude awakening.

Do they realize we will go into Mexico and hunt them down? They're a terrorist organization and international borders don't matter.

Ask ISIS how this will end.

Authorized?

I mean, I don't think it was ever unauthorized.

THE MANY WAYS TO KILL A DRONE

We can break counter-UAV technology into four broad categories:

1. Tracking 
2. Jamming 
3. Kinetic 
4. Hybrid, hijacking, and cyber approaches

• The unfortunate truth: There are rather a lot of options in Categories 1 to 3; and virtually none that have been proven effective in Category 4. That means if countering drones is your mission, you’ll need a good deal of money — and perhaps even more, patience — to diversify and work through numerous systems and gadgets and digital tools that can do the job you want given risks associated with your urban or rural environment.

• Making the task more difficult: if you bought and deployed all the emerging counter-drone technology available today inside America’s borders, you’d be breaking up to two dozen U.S. laws, dealing with everything from privacy to communications channels to aircraft interdiction. Meanwhile, there are thousands of places across the U.S. that lobbyists and a few legislators are increasingly working to protect from nefarious drones and their operators: playgrounds, stadiums and other outdoor sports events, parades, prisons and military bases.

• On the military side, traditional U.S. defense contractors are repackaging existing tech to deal withtoday’s drone threat. One of the more headline-grabbing methods is to fire multi-million-dollar Raytheon-made Patriot missiles at small UAVs, as the Israeli military has done on more than one occasion near the Golan Heights. And more than a year ago, the U.S. Navy shot down a drone with a laser over the Persian Gulf. Raytheon is pitching its C-RAM air defense systemas a UAV countermeasure, while Northrop Grumman is altering its G/ATOR air defense system to monitor UAVs, as is Lockheed Martin and its AN/TPQ-53 radar. But these are not systems you’d find deployed in urban settings back in the States.

• The good news: “There are a lot of ways” of bringing down a drone that don’t involve military-grade equipment, said Duncan Woodbury, a former researcher and remote systems contractor who learned how to alter a consumer drone’s GPS system to allow it to fly anywhere — including into the White House.

““We have not yet seen the killer innovation in counter-UAS that’s gonna put an end to the issue.””

Article (and more info): https://www.defenseone.com/feature/against-the-drones/

ISIS hold my beer.

Unable to read this because I could not prove I'm not a 'bot.

u/#peprain

After looking at a lot of these different robots I think they can be overcome with nets. Might be a good thing to have on hand. 🤖

Just like I think aliens can't undo a tight knot. Their fingers are too long. 👽

Then it's a good thing we have drone jammers we can deploy to our borders.