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Briefing

By Cal Biesecker

Tuesday, September 1st, 2020

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Briefing

This "enhanced" image shows Indago flying with an antenna that can find lost people. (Photo courtesy of Lockheed Martin)

U.S. Border Patrol Agents in the Rio Grande Valley Sector in Texas are operating with the Lockheed Martin [LMT]-supplied Indago 3 vertical take-off-and-landing small unmanned aircraft system (UAS). Customs and Border Protection, the Border Patrol’s parent agency, says that last month agents equipped with the small drones were able to locate a group of illegal aliens who had run into dense brush one morning after illegally entering the U.S. After locating the illegal aliens, the small UAS team guided agents…

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