More Drone News
U.S. CBP MQ-9 Guardian
U.S. MQ-9 Drone Just Flew A Mission Deep Into Mexico
The flight of the U.S. Customs and Border Patrol Guardian drone comes as the Trump administration is ramping up its campaign against Mexican drug cartels.
Howard Altman
An MQ-9 Guardian medium-altitude long-endurance (MALE) drone operated by U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) flew deep into Mexico this morning, according to flight tracking data. What at least appears publicly to be a very rare event comes as the Trump administration has reportedly authorized the military to take action against cartels in Mexico.
The drone, using the call sign TROY701, took off from San Angelo, Texas, at about 4 a.m. Eastern Time and flew more than 800 miles south, including about 600 miles deep into Mexican airspace, according to data provided by FlightRadar24 and shared on X by our friend @thenewarea51.
TROY is a known Department of Homeland Security (DHS) callsign and San Angelo is one of three locations where CBP has MQ-9s. The military variant of the Guardian is the MQ-9 Reaper, which can employ a variety of weapons in addition to collecting data from a vast array of reconfigurable sensors. CBP’s MQ-9 variants are not armed.
As far as the flight track that is visible to the public, the drone conducted several orbits in an area in the southern state of Mexico, to the west of Mexico City. Sometime after flying over this area, about six hours into the flight, the MQ-9 disappeared off online tracking software.
The drone was operating at the behest of the Mexican government, according to the head of that nation’s Secretariat of Security and Citizen Protection, Omar García Harfuch.
In other news US Customs has MQ-9 drones.
Category: Blue Skies, Foreign Policy, International Affairs
“… are not currently armed…”
Key word….”currently”.
In the near future….?
If they want to fly a drone over Mexico, they should fly a drone that’s attached to a set of Scottish bagpipes.
That would drive those cartels out of their gourds.
FB marketplace ad coming soon…
DRONE PARTS FOR SALE. Not flyable, many usable parts available. First come, first served, will not hold parts. No title, parts only, sold as is. If you have to ask your wife, GF or mom’s permission before buying, move on. Will not deliver, no calls after 9PM.
Gee, you don’t suppose that somebody in the Mexican Government did something like let somebody at the cartels know that maybe there would be a drone flying by at a certain date and time?
Mmmmnaw, perish the thought! You mean like, people in the Mexican Government are on the cartels’ payrolls?
It would have to be Mexican politicians and police. There is NO WAY it could be our politicians, celebrities, government officials, etc. NO WAY!!!
Right?
Right????
“medium-altitude long-endurance (MALE)”
That’s a good one.
You mean Viagra????????????????
If your drone is still up four hours after launch, call a specialist.
The reason one can’t find any Astrounauts at the space center around noon is they are out to launch.
Rimshot
They should put a rubber band around one of the wings, and POP it, when it’s “been too long”!
It’s about to get real interesting as we start to watch the celebrities and politicians and rich people begin to lose their shit as they start to lose money as drugs, crime and human trafficking start being addressed. Just watch who screams the loudest when criminals start being dealt with.
Chucky Schumer is even dropping the F bomb these days! I love it!!!
Kinda like watching the left scream and holler about Epstein’s client list not being released by Trump, because, “He’s on it”! But,,, THEY (the left) had it for 4 years and didn’t release it!
Now, if Trump was really on it, don’t you think that it would have came out a long time ago? UNLESS,,,,,there are a LOT of others on it too, that would RATHER HAVE a president Trump than see the list released!!!!
I say release the damn thing and prosecute every MFr on it that trafficked humans, hurt women and children, or broke any law thinking that their money protected them!
F em all! Every Last One! It’s beyond time for a reckoning!