🇺🇸🇲🇽 Cartels flew 378 drones across the US border in 30 days as the Army turns the frontier into a testing ground for counter-drone tech Joint Task Force Southern Border says most are cheap store-bought drones scouting ahead of smuggling runs, and lasers have already knocked down 11 since August. At the Falcon Peak exercise in Arizona, soldiers tested radars, interceptor drones and an automated anti-drone machine gun, with Brig. Gen. Matt Ross aiming to copy how fast Ukraine adapts: "What we should really do is replicate that process." A dozen cartel drones a day is a live classroom no lab can match, and every system that proves itself in the Arizona desert is one the military can ship to the next fight against cheap drones, wherever that turns out to be. Source: Reuters / Writer: Daniel