FANCY NEW NARCO-SUB

By VBS STAFF

This Friday, 120 police officers and soldiers raided a clandestine “industrial complex” in San Lorenzo in Ecuador. Among their seizures, a 100-foot submarine capable of carrying six crew members and 10 tons of cocaine underwater for 10 days. The craft can even dive 65 feet below the surface using a complex ballast system

As you’ll know from our previous coverage of narco-subs, all the so-called “cocaine-coffins” seized could sink only just below the ocean’s surface. They were just-barely-submarines, detectable from overhead by watching for their wake. The craft found in San Lorenzo uses advanced submersible technology capable of keeping it hidden underwater and raising it back to surface. According to Jay Bergman, the U.S. DEA’s Andean director, this is big stuff:

“This is a game changer for us and will prompt an array of countermeasures. This has the national security community concerned as much as the drug interdiction community.”

Watch the VBS report on narco-subs.

By VBS STAFF 1 year ago

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