Drones are on the rise in the drug world with smugglers using them to shift product across borders, into prisons - and soon to a street near you.

“Surprising absolutely no one …”

  • library_napper@monyet.cc
    6·
    10 months ago

    In September the Jordanian air force shot down two drones carrying crystal meth coming from Syria

    Uh, what happens to the people below a drone-full-of-meth that’s shot down?

  • A1kmm@lemmy.amxl.comEnglish
    1·
    10 months ago

    Presumably the drones do either have pre-programmed flight paths in them, or are flown by radio that can be triangulated - and giving up that location information probably is equivalent to ‘snitching’.

    • Mongostein@lemmy.ca
      2·
      10 months ago

      Store the flight information in RAM and it’s gone once it powers down. I’m sure cartels can afford to pay some programmers to do that.

    • jarfil@beehaw.org
      10·
      10 months ago

      what happens if snatch a drone carrying hundreds of thousands of dollars?

      Run.

      If the owner finds you… like if they have a camera recording and the GPS location… you might get some free bullets on top of it.

      Spain has some relatively strict gun control. That doesn’t mean someone controlling the smuggling of millions of € in drugs, can’t pay a few grand for some of his “acquaintances” to fly all the way over, get his property back “by whatever means”, and fly back the next day.