The chaotic closure of the El Paso airport overnight Tuesday, which U.S. authorities blamed on an ​incursion by a Mexican cartel drone, brought into sharp focus the growing use ‌of ​unmanned aircraft by crime groups and the crackling tensions between the countries over how to deal with it. Over the past year U.S. security officials have increasingly 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. There have also been cases, in parts of ‌Mexico further away from the U.S. border, of cartels using the remotely controlled aircraft to drop explosives in deadly attacks. The rising use of drones by Mexican cartels comes as the technology has significantly transformed traditional warfare on the world’s battlefields, most notably in Ukraine.

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