On Wednesday, the Colombian navy announced its first seizure of an unmanned narco-submarine equipped with a Starlink antenna off its Caribbean coast.
The ship was not carrying drugs, but the Colombian navy and Western security sources based in the region said AFP They thought it was a trial of an unmanned ship by a cocaine traffic cartel.
“It was tested and was empty,” confirmed a spokesman for the navy AFP.
When asked if he had been operated by Starlink, the spokesman confirmed that the ship “had this technology” but said that the navy “still studied how it operated exactly”.
The discovery announced by the commander of the Navy L’Amiral Juan Ricardo Rozo at a press conference is one of the first discoveries reported in the South American waters of a Narco drone submarine.
It sometimes happens that the cartels intensify their use of submarines difficult to detect, generally with a crew on board, to pass cocaine through the Atlantic and Pacific oceans.
Semi-submentables have been used for decades to transport cocaine north of the Pacific Coast from Colombia to Central America or Mexico.
But in recent years, they are sailing much further.
In November of last year, five tonnes of Colombian cocaine were found on a semi-submersible seized on the way to Australia.
