The U.S. Army deployed AeroVironment's (AVAV) LOCUST laser weapon system near El Paso International Airport on Wednesday, two sources told Reuters, which led to a seven-hour airspace shutdown. The ...
EL PASO, Texas (Border Report) – Law enforcement agents called them ultralights. Picture a canvas chair and a small engine tied to a hang glider. They flew over from Mexico with a basket of drugs the ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Police officers stand near an exhibition of U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) drones, at El Paso International Airport, ...
The U.S. Army positioned a laser-based counter-drone system made by AeroVironment (AVAV) near El Paso International Airport on Wednesday, a move that contributed to a roughly seven-hour suspension of ...
On the afternoon of Wednesday, February 11, 2026, a routine day of commercial air travel in the United States took an extraordinary turn when the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) abruptly ...
Roughly 24 hours after the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) shut down airspace over El Paso, Texas, before reversing course, the city’s mayor said he still has not received information from the ...
WASHINGTON, Feb 20 (Reuters) - The U.S. Department of Transportation will next week brief lawmakers about the abrupt shutdown of Texas' El Paso airport earlier this month, Transportation Secretary ...
A sudden halt to air traffic around El Paso International Airport has sharpened questions about what, exactly, the federal government is doing in the skies above the border. The Federal Aviation ...
A flurry of texts, calls, and emails in the early morning hours followed the first notice that the airspace over El Paso was ...
EL PASO, Texas (AP) — The Pentagon allowed U.S. Customs and Border Protection to use an anti-drone laser earlier this week, leading the Federal Aviation Administration to suddenly close the airspace ...
The airspace closure is across the border from the Valley of Juárez, a well-known border smuggling corridor associated with ...
The Federal Aviation Administration is charged with flight safety, and the Defense Department with national security. Those missions keep colliding. By Kate Kelly Karoun Demirjian and Eric Schmitt ...