2026-08-28T01:18:34.284Z / 路透社
华盛顿，8月27日（路透社）——美国官员周四表示，美军本周在得克萨斯州南部的里奥格兰德河谷利用激光击落了三架靠近美墨边境的墨西哥贩毒集团无人机。
北美防空联合司令部和美国北方司令部在一份声明中表示，此次行动于周二深夜至周三凌晨开展，使用了陆军多用途高能激光武器。
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美军未透露此次打击的确切地点，也未说明行动是发生在美国还是墨西哥领土上。墨西哥总统克劳迪娅·希恩鲍姆曾表示，任何美国在墨西哥领土上采取的单边行动都将严重侵犯墨西哥主权。
军方称这些无人机对美军及美国海关和边境保护局人员构成“实际威胁”。
“贩毒集团网络正越来越多地使用无人驾驶航空器系统，以协助非法偷渡人口，并主动监视我方人员及执法伙伴，”联合任务部队——南部边境指挥官柯蒂斯·泰勒少将在一份声明中说道。
此次公告发布之际，美国总统唐纳德·特朗普政府正寻求加强对移民和贩毒集团的打击，以兑现其2024年总统竞选期间的承诺。
该边境任务部队自2025年成立以来，已开展了数万次侦测和监控巡逻任务，并执行了数千架次观察飞行任务，该部队表示。
军方未透露该激光系统的制造商。
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已于去年夏天向美国陆军交付了首批两台多用途高能激光武器。美国陆军此前曾部署过航空环境公司的LOCUST系统。该系统的部署曾导致今年早些时候得克萨斯州埃尔帕索国际机场附近空域关闭7小时。
今年2月，国会助手当时对路透社表示，美军曾利用激光反无人机系统意外击落了一架美国政府无人机。
美国安全官员对墨西哥贩毒集团使用无人机表示担忧，这些贩毒集团大多使用改装自现成型号的简易无人机，用于空投毒品包裹或监视贩运路线。
在墨西哥远离美墨边境的部分地区，贩毒集团曾使用无人机投放炸药发动致命袭击。美墨当局正携手合作，应对边境地区无人机使用量上升的问题。
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US military uses laser to down three Mexican cartel drones near border
2026-08-28T01:18:34.284Z / Reuters
WASHINGTON, Aug 27 (Reuters) – The U.S. military used a laser in southern Texas’ Rio Grande Valley to shoot down three Mexican drug cartel drones this week near the U.S.-Mexico border, U.S. officials said on Thursday.
The North American Aerospace Defense Command and U.S. Northern Command said in a statement that the operation took place late Tuesday and early Wednesday and used the Army Multipurpose High Energy Laser.
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The military did not give the precise location of the strikes nor make clear whether it took place over U.S. or Mexican territory. Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum has said any unilateral U.S. action on Mexican soil would be a grave breach of her country’s sovereignty.
The military said the drones posed “a physical threat” to U.S. military and U.S. Customs and Border Protection personnel.
“Cartel networks are increasingly employing unmanned aircraft systems to facilitate illicit human-smuggling and actively spy on our personnel and law enforcement partners,” Major General Curtis Taylor, the commander of Joint Task Force–Southern Border, said in a statement.
The announcement comes as U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration seeks to clamp down on immigration and cartels, seeking to fulfill promises from his 2024 presidential campaign.
Since its establishment in 2025, the border task force has conducted tens of thousands of detection and monitoring patrols and thousands of observation flights, the task force said.
The military did not specify the manufacturer of the laser system.
AeroVironment Inc
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delivered its first two multi-purpose high-energy lasers to the U.S. Army last summer. The U.S. Army has previously deployed AeroVironment Inc’s LOCUST system. The deployment of that system led to a seven-hour airspace shutdown near Texas’ El Paso International Airport earlier this year.
In February, the military accidentally shot down a U.S. government drone using a laser-based anti-drone system, congressional aides told Reuters at the time.
U.S. security officials have expressed concern about the use of drones by Mexican cartels, which mostly employ crudely adapted versions of off-the-shelf models to drop drug packages or surveil trafficking routes.
In parts of Mexico farther from the U.S. border, cartels have used drones to drop explosives in deadly attacks. U.S. and Mexican authorities are working together to combat the rise of drones in the border region.
Reporting by Mike Stone in Washington; Writing by Jasper Ward; Editing by Cynthia Osterman
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