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. 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. Mexican crime groups have been using cheap commercial drones for more than a decade to conduct surveillance and transport contraband, according to Vanda Felbab-Brown, a security expert. Do you think that US is using drones by Mexico to test military weapons ?

