Have the invaders been busy setting fires down there along the border?
I wonder if the BLM deployed its QRF to confront ANY locals out there who have cattle or other tangible property out there because the government lost one of its surveillance assets???
Every year in fire season in the western US, I think of a California company that had a brilliant idea: a firefighting airship. Unfortunately, they went out of business before they could build a prototype.
This would not replaced fixed wing firefighting aircraft, nor firefighting helicopters, but would be very complementary to them, and do much to put out fires.
Airships can carry enormous cargoes, in this case a lot of water. And because they can maintain their position, they do not have to drop it all at once. Instead they can “rain” with heavy droplets, either on a fire, or in the path of the fire, to significantly slow its spread.
An airship could even descend a wire guided fire hose to hit particular hotspots.
And something even that company did not envisage is that the airship could also descend a wide and thin hose to deploy high expansion foam, as is done to extinguish aircraft runway fires. So, for example, if a building was in the path of the fire, they could cover it with foam to protect it.