{"id":245737,"date":"2026-04-12T01:40:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-12T01:40:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/245737\/"},"modified":"2026-04-12T01:40:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-12T01:40:09","slug":"faa-pentagon-ok-lasers-to-shoot-down-drones-along-southern-border","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/245737\/","title":{"rendered":"FAA, Pentagon OK lasers to shoot down drones along southern border"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>EL PASO, Texas &#8211; Federal aviation and defense officials have reached an agreement on how lasers can be used to shoot down drones along the southern border.<\/p>\n<p>The Federal Aviation Administration and the Department of Defense came to an agreement after an FAA safety assessment determined that using lasers to shoot down drones did not pose undue risks to passenger aircraft, according to the FAA administrator.<\/p>\n<p>The agreement follows an FAA shutdown of a large swath of airspace over El Paso, Texas, after counter-drone laser systems were used in February. A similar incident took place weeks later about 50 miles south of El Paso.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EL PASO, Texas &#8211; Federal aviation and defense officials have reached an agreement on how lasers can be&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":245738,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[138,140,139],"class_list":["post-245737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-el-paso","tag-el-paso","tag-el-paso-headlines","tag-el-paso-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245737","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=245737"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245737\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/245738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}