DEA: Narco-drones not major smuggling concern, but could help set up attacks on agents
Given that the drone that crashed was only carrying six pounds – worth up to $100,000 in some parts of the country – the DEA’s Barden, however, said law enforcement agents are more interested in hunting down larger shipments.
Anyone willing to put out a couple of grand to buy a high end drone that could return 100,000 on that investment ? Amazon is playing with deliveries by drone.. so is Dominos with pizza.. the potential for using this technology is virtually endless..
Just imagine.. these cartels get a small army of these high end drones.. could have a 30-60 minutes flying time.. that can be programmed to fly by GPS to a specific Lat/Long.. They sit on the south side of our border and once the sun sets… they start launching these drones with < 10 lbs of some highly profitable illegal drugs.. and they start flying north to a receiver. .. a few hundred feet off the ground – under radar detection – automatically flying to a specific geographic spot… Waiting there was someone with freshly charged battery packs… changed out the battery pack and reprograms to return from where it came… to repeat the cycle for most of the night or until they run out of freshly charged batteries. How many drones with $100,000 or more value of illegal drugs each could be transported just in one over night 12 hr period.?
Presuming that a SINGLE DRONE would make one round trip in 60 minutes.. each drone could transport > $1,000,000 worth of illegal drugs over one single night.. You do the math what a dozen or multiple dozens of drones could transport .. SMALL POTATOES ?
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