How many pizza were purchased during the closure in the DC/Virgimia area?

How will MSM spin this?

Trump killing immigrants before Lent starts? Gotta give it up for Lent.

Catag94 said:

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What are the odds this is Nancy Guthrie related?

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Zero

ETFan said:

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CanyonAg77 said:

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GPS, I would guess

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Planes fly pretty often without GPS or with scrambled GPS, I reckon whatever tech they have does more than screw up some coordinates.

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I got my PPL back when Loran was the gee-whiz nav system

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Jock 07 said:

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I'm on a plane right now, really makes you think.

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Dude, get off your phone. You're going to cause a crash!

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Starlink FTW

LMCane said:

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all over twitter that it was Mexican drug cartel drones

of course, who gave the mexican cartels drones?

IRAN
CHINA
CUBA
Venezuela

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If this is proven true, green light to invade Mexico and pave it.

They refuse to address the narco armies that border our country

The FAA and DOW acted swiftly to address a cartel drone incursion.

The threat has been neutralized, and there is no danger to commercial travel in the region.

The restrictions have been lifted and normal flights are resuming. https://t.co/xQA1cMy7l0

— Secretary Sean Duffy (@SecDuffy) February 11, 2026

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RGV AG said:

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This deal is odd, the "cartels" have been flying drones across the border for years, in prolly lots of locations. BP friends have shared videos withe me of agents shooting Mex drones down and have also relayed how they track them via the Aerostat and radar coverage.

There have been helicopters, small planes, and years back basically kamikazi crop dusters that would cross the border and drop dope or souls.

And some of that has been close to other comercial airports. This is just a weird deal to me, save for someone flying drones into and very close to the airport.

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Just because something bad has been happening for a long time doesn't mean it's weird or odd that somebody is finally doing something about it. It is odder to me that past administrations cared nothing about the activity.

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Agree with your point about previous administration's. But I don't think you are considering the pride and professionalism of a lot of the BP and Customs agents on the front lines. They might had to let a bunch of wets go due to orders, but they never quit riding herd on the dope and other stuff they oversaw.

The big surge of thousands of Haitians in Del Rio years ago was orchestrated by the CDG so as to force hundreds of agents away from the bridges and river to the south, and make them go deal with a mess, so they could push Mexicans across, who were not getting asylum, and reduce inspections.

The boots on the ground guys have, from what I saw and heard, kept up the fight to the best of their abilities.

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YouBet said:

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And now we have justification to attack cartels.

Hold onto your butts.

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It's been justified. They are terrorist organizations.

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Yep, this was declared in "Sicario: Day of the Soldado". Where the hell have people been?

The El Paso airspace closure was news to White House -- Trump had not been made aware it was coming, sources told me. The grounding touched off a scramble among law enforcement agencies to figure out what prompted the security message in the so-called NOTAM. The situation was…

— Jennifer Jacobs (@JenniferJJacobs) February 11, 2026

If true, somebody/bodies are going to be in a little bit of trouble haha

Building the resume so when the US does hit them hard, they can say definitively why.

Up through the early 70s it has been proven and acknowledged that several Mex presidents were CIA assets. The whole "cartel" fiasco of the 2010's was allowed by the US Fed government allowing the Sinaloa group almost free reign in exchange for them dropping dime and assisting in the dismantling of various other groups, like the Zetas, CDG, Familia Michoacana, and the Juarez and TJ group.

Whether they are doing right or wrong, I have no doubt that US intelligence agencies know a whole lot more than most can even imagine in regards to who is doing what and that the Mex gov is penetrated and compromised at high levels, always has been.

I do not believe that this current Mexican government, as leftist as they appear, would risk having criminal groups mess with larger drones on the US border If they are and if it has happened, this batty woman is about to step into a huge pile of sheet.

The drug business moves the weight in commercial shipments, the across the river and mojado desert mule packed stuff is small time inconsequential stuff. Now the illegal trafficking with asylum was huge, huge easy money for Mex in general and Trump has, thank God, shut that crap down.

Allowing larger drones is financial and political suicide for the Mexican politicians. Hopefully they aren't that stupid, but maybe they are.

If I were the cartels, my butt would be pretty puckered right now.

If we are watching their drones and acting the way we did for them, they know that they are being watched and monitored as well.

The time for the cartels is quickly coming to a close.

It now appears that this may have simply been a communications disconnect between the FAA and counter-drone training/ops being conducted by the Army at nearby Ft Bliss.

DRONES

Hearing the same. FAA reopened the air space after talking to officials at Fort Bliss (which is in El Paso), a US official tells me. https://t.co/thMobka11v

— Nancy Youssef, نانسي يوسف (@nancyayoussef) February 11, 2026

74OA said:

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It now appears that this may have simply been a communications disconnect between the FAA and counter-drone training/ops being conducted by the Army at nearby Ft Bliss.

DRONES

Hearing the same. FAA reopened the air space after talking to officials at Fort Bliss (which is in El Paso), a US official tells me. https://t.co/thMobka11v

— Nancy Youssef, نانسي يوسف (@nancyayoussef) February 11, 2026

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Govt efficiency at its finest

Yeah, who knows what the final story will be, but at least initially, a communications disconnect between the FAA and the Army conducting drone/counter-drone ops at nearby Ft Bliss sounds more credible to me than does a sudden surge of clandestine cartel drone flights into the well-monitored airspace over a major city and military base.

74OA said:

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Yeah, who knows what the final story will be, but at least initially, a communications disconnect between the FAA and the Army conducting drone/counter-drone ops at nearby Ft Bliss sounds more credible to me than does a sudden surge of clandestine cartel drone flights into the well-monitored airspace over a major city and military base.

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I still like the alien reason.

...and now they are saying it was a party balloon...wow.

Found it!

Can't we test this stuff somewhere other than a terminal area? This seems dumb.

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/us-military-shot-down-party-balloon-near-el-paso-after-suspecting-drone-official-says

Real sharp folks. Glad we're now safe from party balloons.

Update to the "Drones" article I linked just above:

"CBS News and CNN have both now reported that a breakdown in coordination between the U.S. military and the FAA over the employment of a counter-drone system armed with a laser directed energy weapon contributed to the imposition of the flight restrictions around El Paso.

"Meetings were scheduled over safety impacts, but Pentagon officials wanted to test the technology sooner," according to CBS News, citing multiple unnamed sources. "Airlines were also aware of the apparent impasse between the FAA and Pentagon officials over the issue because the Pentagon has been using Fort Bliss for anti-cartel drone operations without sharing information with the FAA."

If so, that's unprofessional to say the least.

B-1 83 said:

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Rumor now is FAA fighting with DoD over airspace, and maybe some DoD experiment or project regarding GPS blackout areas

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Looks like my source was pretty much right.

You fly the lancers? My uncle did

74OA said:

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Update to the "Drones" article I linked just above:

"CBS News and CNN have both now reported that a breakdown in coordination between the U.S. military and the FAA over the employment of a counter-drone system armed with a laser directed energy weapon contributed to the imposition of the flight restrictions around El Paso.

"Meetings were scheduled over safety impacts, but Pentagon officials wanted to test the technology sooner," according to CBS News, citing multiple unnamed sources. "Airlines were also aware of the apparent impasse between the FAA and Pentagon officials over the issue because the Pentagon has been using Fort Bliss for anti-cartel drone operations without sharing information with the FAA."

If so, that's unprofessional to say the least.

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This is very believable.

Yukon Cornelius said:

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You fly the lancers? My uncle did

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With my eyesight when I left A&M they wouldn't let me look at an airplane. The USAF offered me a missile silo in Wyoming. No thanks.

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trip said:

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fort Bliss is a Large Missile range and has white sands next to it.

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Fort Bliss is not next to White Sands.

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I did the Bataan Death March Marathon back in 2008 at White Sands

the missile base is in New Mexico 44 miles from El Paso airport

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I worked at the Small Missile Range (SMR) at WSMR back in the mid-90s.

Blowing up **** is fun.

Fdsa said:

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...and now they are saying it was a party balloon...wow.

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Were there 99 of them and were the balloons red by chance?

FlyRod said:

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https://www.foxnews.com/politics/us-military-shot-down-party-balloon-near-el-paso-after-suspecting-drone-official-says

Real sharp folks. Glad we're now safe from party balloons.

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Government: that thing we do together.

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Fdsa said:

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...and now they are saying it was a party balloon...wow.

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Were there 99 of them and were the balloons red by chance?

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Only in the English version.

So is Duffy FOS or completely unaware of the truth?

So, is this coordination failure supposed to be a criticism now? I thought the purpose of testing things was to find out where problems can occur, and it sounds like they were successful in discovering a problem. Wasn't it Elon who said something about rockets failing and blowing up was part of being successful?

Sure, I know the optics may be funny to laugh at, but isn't this likely to result in a clearer lane of authority and process for a real live event in the future? I'm actually glad they are working on a border incursion solution. This is far less 'embarrassing' event if you want to call it that then letting Chinese spy balloons fly across the country unimpeded.