27 points by c420 19 hours ago | 8 comments
- Accidentally
The same laser system (Locust) shut down El Paso International Airport, apparently defending the U.S. from a party balloon.
- Godspeed for anyone transiting the airspace where these devices are active.
- They are going to shoot down an airliner, then blame Anthropic and the Democrats.
- just tell em to wear their disintegration-proof vest
- I mean, wouldn’t an even slightest clever adversary do just that? Launch a bunch of decoys(party balloons, drones, whatever) amidst one they actually want to actually use as an attack vector? Would the pentagon just play an expensive pew pew and potentially miss the real one?
- Crazy they just has to shutdown an airport in a separate incident in Texas on the 12th because they can't get it together on this stuff:
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2026/02/11/us/faa-el-paso-fligh...
What is going on at the Pentagon?
- Well the head of the Pentagon is an alcoholic who has no business being in the role, so thats probably contributing to their issues as of late....
- Are there any that are not own goals or buffoonery?
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