Drone “narco sub” — equipped with Starlink antenna — seized for first time
On Wednesday, the Colombian Navy announced a unmanned first seizure “Narco Sub” It is equipped with a Starlink antenna on the Caribbean coast.
The semi -subsidized ship did not carry drugs, but the Colombian navy in the region and Western security sources, AFP, said they believed that they were a trial managed by a cocaine smuggling cartel.
“It was tested and it was empty,” a sea spokesman confirmed AFP.
Hidden semi -submersibles hidden Forest Shipyards It has been used for decades ferry cocaine From Colombia, the world’s largest cocaine producer to Central America or Mexico.
In recent years, however, they have sailed much farther away by passing the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.
The latest finding declared at a press conference by Admiral Juan Ricardo Rozo is the first discovery reported in the South American waters of Drone Narco Sub. Italian police in May 2024, Small Remote Control Lower Probably aimed at carrying drugs as part of an international network of drug smuggling.
The Colombian Navy said that Drone Semizbmantersible belongs. Gulf clanColombia’s largest drug smuggling group and 1.5 tons of cocaine could carry the capacity.
On July 2, 2025, a low -profile unmanned semi -water between the two Colombia navy boats on the shore of Tayrona Park near Santa Marta, Colombia.
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A video published by the navy showed a small gray ship with a satellite antenna on the bow.
This was not used for the first time by suspicious drug smugglers at sea at sea.
In November, the Indian police seized a giant Meth shipment worth 4.25 billion dollars on a remote ship by Starlink near the Far Andaman and Nicobar Islands.
It was the first known discovery of a Narco gold operated by Starlink.
Floating “coffins”
The UN drug agency last month, cocaine production, seizures and use in 2023 said that all hit record levels.
In Colombia, production reached record levels that were fueled by increasing global demand.
Rozo, autonomous sub -use, smugglers “difficult to detect in the sea” is difficult to watch with the difficult to monitor and even to allow penalties to work with partial autonomy “to” more sophisticated unmanned systems “reflected to reflect.
Juana Cabezas, a researcher of the Colombian Development and Peace Research Institute, said that strong Mexican drug cartels operating in Colombia to AFP hired technology experts and engineers to develop a unmanned submarine until 2017.
He pointed out that drone ships make it difficult for the authorities to detect drug lords behind the shipments.
“Removing the crew, eliminating the risk of caught operators,” Removing the crew, “he said, a researcher of US -based Insight Crime Think Tank, who wrote a report on the rise of Narco Subs.
Shuldiner also emphasized the difficulty of coming together to set sail for temporary subs defined as “coffins” of the crew. The journey can be deadly: in 2023 “Narco Sub” with two dead bodies And about three tons of cocaine were seized on the coast of Colombia.
Authorities, the Pacific Ocean on the coast of Colombia, two dead bodies and a submarine with approximately three tons of cocaine, he said. / Credit: Colombia Navy
According to the report, in 2024, the Atlantic and Pacific was caught in almost a record number of low -profile ships.
In November last year, five tons of Colombian cocaine A half -served Far Australian on the way to Australia.
The Colombian law sentences to up to 14 years imprisonment of the use, construction, marketing, possession and transportation of semi -subsidies.
Although it has been widely identified on the coast of Colombia, Narco Subs has been seized around the world in recent months.
Last week, the Mexican navy seized 3.5 tons of cocaine hidden on a semi -denied ship on the Pacific Coast Video of “Narco Sub” Capture.
In March, the Portuguese police said that the forces almost confiscated 6.5 tons Cocaine from a semi -surfer ship of Far Azores archipelago, which is connected to the Iberian Peninsula. In January, a suspicious Narco Sub. Fisherman was pulling the boat To a port in Northwest Spain.
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