{"id":146904,"date":"2026-02-27T03:36:29","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T03:36:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=146904"},"modified":"2026-02-27T03:36:29","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T03:36:29","slug":"us-military-laser-shoots-down-government-drone-in-texas-incidentunited-states-canada-south-china-morning-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=146904","title":{"rendered":"US military laser shoots down government drone in Texas incidentUnited States &amp; Canada &#8211; South China Morning Post"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: United States &amp; Canada &#8211; South China Morning PostThe US military shot down a US government drone with a laser-based anti-drone system, an accident that prompted the Federal Aviation Administration to bar flights on Thursday in an area around Fort Hancock, Texas, congressional aides told Reuters.<br \/>\nThe Pentagon did not immediately comment, but the FAA cited \u201cspecial security reasons\u201d in its \u200cnotice about the restrictions on the airspace near the Mexican border.<br \/>\nUS lawmakers Rick Larsen, Bennie Thompson and Andre Carson, top Democrats on&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/world\/united-states-canada\/article\/3344810\/us-military-laser-shoots-down-government-drone-texas-incident?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: United States &amp; Canada &#8211; South China Morning PostThe US military shot down a US government drone with a laser-based anti-drone system, an accident that prompted the Federal Aviation&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146904"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=146904"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146904\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=146904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=146904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=146904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}