As we've discussed before in these pages, Mexican drug cartels are now routinely using unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV's) to drop explosives on their rivals.
Cartel gunmen in western Mexico expanded the use of weaponized drones to drop improvised explosive devices on their rivals. The use of commercially available drones to deliver explosives is now commonplace in the rural areas of Michoacan and Jalisco. Mexico’s government has been unable to stop rival criminal organizations as they fight to control lucrative drug production and trafficking routes.
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Breitbart Texas obtained an exclusive video from one of the drone attacks that gunmen used recently in the city of Apatzingan, Michoacan. Locals who spoke with Breitbart Texas revealed that drone attacks in Apatzingan and other nearby communities have become a daily occurrence as criminal organizations continue their turf wars.
There's more at the link, including a photograph of the bombs and a video clip of one being dropped.
What nobody's saying (at least in public) is that those same cartels are sending literally thousands of their operators over the border. They're deploying to towns and cities all across the USA, to facilitate the distribution of illegal narcotics. The same cartel wars that are plaguing Mexico are being imported to this country across our southern border - and that almost certainly includes the knowledge of how to use UAV's in this fashion. As for the UAV's and bombs, they can be "imported" with trivial ease. If a cartel can smuggle millions of doses of narcotics into this country with virtual impunity, what makes you think they can't do the same with drones and explosives?
I'm willing to bet that before long, we'll see rival cartels and street gangs in this country bombing each other (and innocent civilian neighborhoods) in precisely the same way.
Peter
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UNPOSSIBLE!
This can't happen!
I have so decreed it!
Look on my blather, ye mighty, and tremble!
And that's just the tip of the iceberg
How good are you at skeet shooting? Asking for a friend :P
Tractorguy
After alcohol was re-legalized in the US, the distributors stopped having firefights on the streets. The en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harrison_Narcotics_Tax_Act of 1914 criminalized opiates and coca products. The national legislature is free to repeal drug laws any day they want.
@Anon 8:58AM,
And that approach has worked out so well in Califrutopia and Colorado, hasn't it?
Maybe, while they're up, TPTB could decriminalize theft, rape, and murder, and cut crime to nothing...?
When you consider how much the Bidenistas are bending over backwards to allow this flood of immigrants, the only conclusion I can come to is that those cartels own our government as much they famously own the Mexican government.
Load your bird gun with turkey loads with a turkey choke and have them next to the door. The range with that configuration can exceed 60+ yards. Keep shooting till you get results. First, pattern test your gun. Remove plug from mag tube. Might also want to practice with some clays. I don't have kids or idiots at home, ymmv...
Hmm, how soon can we expect the ammo makers to design a load specifically for drone killing?
When would you expect them to upgrade the dumb bombs to radio controlled glider bombs? Personally, I would have skipped the dumb bomb system and gone directly to controlled flight. Video camera in the nose for best accuracy. Probably no more cost than the wasted dumb bombs in total. I think the Germans were doing this toward the end of ww2 for anti-shipping in the Med.
Aesop writes: And that approach has worked out /so/ well in Califrutopia and Colorado, hasn't it?
The approach of freedom for narcotics has not been recently tried in those places. It's so un-free that legitimate patients with chronic pain aren't getting enough prescription painkillers, because doctors are scared for their licenses.
Maybe, while they're up, TPTB could decriminalize theft, rape, and murder, and cut crime to nothing...?
Free people have this idea that a "crime" with no victim is not actually a crime, because vice doesn't deserve a criminal punishment. For example, Mexican citizens crossing the "border" from Mexico to work are hurting no one, and morally committing no crime. The legislature could pick the policy of not paying government benefits out to people who didn't pay taxes in; then the policy question of "work permit" protectionism is separate from the policy question of freeloaders.
Never happen.
Pretty sure FAA forbids shooting down drones
@Anonymous at 8:47PM: But if the FAA's not on the scene . . .
Yeah, because it's so freaking easy to get a prescription for an incredibly weak opioid like tramadol in California, right? You don't have to get a colonoscopy with a telescope up your rectum or anything, right? People with chronic pain don't have to suffer because their doctors are terrified of losing their licenses to practice medicine, like they are in the rest of the country, right?
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No. People still suffer unnecessarily because of people like you. You want to know why there's so many heroin (etc) addicts? Look in the mirror. If the pain is bad enough, and something as mild as tramadol is restricted like it's fentanyl, because of people like you? Anything becomes preferable to enduring the agony. Heroin (or bogus opioids on the black market, that claim to be authentic versions of what they were already taking, but are actually laced with meth-lab quality fentanyl) is just the attempt to avoid the actual last resort: a bullet. And the solution isn't to make it so people in pain can get meds to manage it... it's to ensure that they're left with *only* the bullet as an option. Right?
As an aside, I'm loving the "Shoot dem durn drones down!" commentary coming from stories like this.
Remember the Glen arguments? I'm the guy who was (legally) weaponizing hobby drones nearly a decade ago. Yes, I'm the guy that 'accidentally' blew up a shoot house with a DJI and a perioxide-based charge (too much BTW).
Try shooting one down. We have. Repeatedly. On base and at a special range in Playas, New Mexico. Hit the battery or take out *all* of the rotors. Good luck.
I had 4 teammates with 4 AKs/ARs dumping mags as fast as they could at a Mavic armed with a roman candle. I won.
Same guys with varying bird and/or buck loads. I still won.
I'm not saying it can't and hasn't been done, but Cletus and his Wingmaster have between a .05% and 2.7% chance at our current stage of advancement.
3 1/2 " 10 ga., #4 or #2 shot oughta handle most civilian drones, I think....
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