The Colombian Navy on Wednesday announced its first seizure of a non-manned narco-submarine equipped with a Starlink antenna in its Caribbean coast.
The boat did not carry drugs, but said the security sources of the Colombian Navy and Western Security based in the region AFP They believed it was proof of a ship not manned by a cocaine traffic poster.
“He was testing and was empty,” confirmed a naval spokesman to AFP.
When asked if he was operated by Starlink, the spokesman confirmed that the ship “had that technology” but said the navy “was still studying how exactly worked.”
The discovery announced by the commander of the Navy, the Admiral, Juan Ricardo Rozo, at a press conference, is one of the first findings reported in the South American waters of a drug submarine.
It comes when the posters intensify their use of difficult submarines to detect, usually with an on -board crew, to smuggle cocaine through Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.
Croidered semi-summer ones have been used for decades to transport cocaine to the north from the Pacific coast of Colombia to Central or Mexico.
But in recent years, they have been sailing much further.
In November last year, five tons of Colombian cocaine were found in a semi-submersible seized on the road to Australia.
