Surveillance Military Blimp Tested On U.S.-Mexican Border

Surveillance Military Blimp Tested On U.S.-Mexican Border
NOGALES, AZ - JULY 7: The U.S.- Mexico border wall is shown July 7, 2012 in Nogales, Arizona. Mexican President-elect Enrique Pena Nieto has said that he wants to expand his country's drug-war partnership with the U.S., but that he would not support the presence of armed American agents in Mexico. (Photo by Sandy Huffaker/Getty Images)
NOGALES, AZ - JULY 7: The U.S.- Mexico border wall is shown July 7, 2012 in Nogales, Arizona. Mexican President-elect Enrique Pena Nieto has said that he wants to expand his country's drug-war partnership with the U.S., but that he would not support the presence of armed American agents in Mexico. (Photo by Sandy Huffaker/Getty Images)

With the United States' conflicts in the Arab world drawing to a close, the government is using some of the technology honed on battlefields overseas on the home front.

Over the next few weeks, the U.S. military will begin to test a 72-foot-long, unmanned surveillance blimp in southern Texas that could be used to spot drug traffickers and undocumented immigrants entering the U.S. via its border with Mexico.

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