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In the last 6 months the U.S. Coast Guard along with the U.S. Navy have found 42 submersibles headed north towards the United States and off the coast of Central America. That is double the number found in the previous 5 years combined. These subs can carry as much as 10 tons of drugs or even weapons and some of the latest models can move 15 knots.
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Found by Rick Salsman.
I think the flaw in the plan is that they have to come to the surface to load and unload the dope. It would probably be cheaper and easier to use an ordinary boat.
A submersible would be suspicious unless it was being used for legitimate scientific purposes. A scientific submersible would probably have a support ship.
A submersible on shore offloading cargo would be a dead giveaway to some sort of smuggling. Duh.
I story I saw earlier in the year said the “subs” weren’t true submersibles, most just went just below the surface like this one looks to be. Just trying to go under the coast guard radar.
I was hoping to see them shoot the damn thing.
If I were a drug smuggler I would have a fleet of UAVs to deliver my drugs. Make the UAVs out of wood and fabric and use ceramic engines and I doubt they would be caught by radar. Integrate intermittent GPS or maybe inertial GPS and drop the drugs a prearranged coordinates. Submarines are just so old school.
Why spend so much money on transport when you can get a cheese contract and fly your Kush back on AF-C130’s?
Sounds like more BS from the DEA.
That’s much better than all the commie subs that were cruising our west coast during the illustrious Carter administration in the 70s. I’ll take drugs over commies any day of the week.
if drugs were legal – the guys bringing in really dangerous shit would stand out. Right now it just looks like a wave of dope coming in, no telling which one is the real terrorist.
Hah, hah. The story on page two is that our drug suppliers from old Mexico are BORED! and having to come up with new ways to spend all OUR MONEY they know they don’t have enough ways to spend.
They do it for the fun and the challenge. Standard operations of walking across the border, trucks, and private aircraft will continue to fund daily corruption of everything they touch. All brought to you by the self-righteous, self deluded, out of touch, nanny state called the USA. Good job moralists.
Have I read too many books about the US sub capabilities, or could the Navy take these guys out without even trying very hard? ….these are not stealthy subs, and would seem to be very easy targets with some sort of SOSUS line. Which we probably already have down there…
My brother, ret. USCG, spent a couple of years on patrol off the Pacific coast of central America. Their mission was to intercept narcotic smugglers way off shore.
He told me so many times they would stop a fishing boat floating out there and inspect it. They would find barrels and barrels of gasoline. Yet, the fishing boat has diesel motors. But, they couldn’t do anything about it. It is not illegal to sit in the middle of the Pacific ocean with barrels of gas.
The gas was for the outboard powered speed boats blowing north from Columbia. These “fishing boats” were floating gas stations. They would wave off the speedboat if they were being watched. But there was always alternative floating fuel stations out there for them to go to.
Because of improvements in monitoring sea traffic (drones, etc), they are having to go under water now. Hence, the subs. They have found a couple of used commie block diesel/battery subs being retrofitted in Columbia for smuggling duty.
Now… what these smugglers are probably not aware of is that off the US Pacific coast is a long line of underwater listening stations. They were put there during the cold war to listen for subs. It actually works very well since water conducts sound so well. So they are going to find it really hard to get a sub near the US coast undetected under water. They would better off running on the surface with the wave noise.
First of all: I don’t use any drugs (and I loathe people who do).
But clearly, those who want to get high obviously have no problem finding any drugs they want almost anywhere in America (I’m talking urban areas, not some mid-west religious dugouts with population: 100), regardless of the “war on drugs”, regardless of involment of multitude anti-drug agencies, legislations or initiatives.
This “war on drugs” over the years probably cost us all already more than the value of all the drugs on the US market LOL
Notably, vast majority of US citizens don’t see the drugs or drug users as any offence nor crime either.
It seems it is only DEA who don’t want drugs to be legalized.
Imagine the revenues that would have come just from taxing the drugs (instead of making gangs richer), how many new jobs would have been created at the legal drugs manufacturing plants, how many useless DEA agents could have been diverted to solve more important issues than catching people smuggling blue pills or such…
Prohibition era clearly showed what has to be done. Keeping drugs illegal for so many years only contributed to the spread of organized crime all over USA – and made the “druglords” abroad even more influential and rich.
#11–888–Whats your second of all point?
I used to do these boardings myself, 15 knots is not fast, and that damn thing doesn’t look stable. One 50 cal. in the side would send it to visit Davey Jones locker. These guys have more balls than brains. Har.
#12
yes, second of all:
get lost, village idiot! 🙂