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Starlink-powered drone narco-sub intercepted by Colombian Navy — boat was converted into a drone for uncrewed smuggling


Removing the human crew reduces the risk for drug cartels.

However, you really don’t need that much data to control a boat, and the value of the carried cargo — ranging between millions and billions of dollars — makes the cost of setting up satellite internet communications negligible. This new way of using Starlink will make it harder for governments to catch drug runners sailing the seas, mainly as a single crew can remotely operate multiple drone boats. So, if intelligence agencies can determine the entities that sign up for these accounts, and if SpaceX cooperates, they can track these user terminals on these narco-subs and then capture them as the land-side of the operation is unloading its drug cargo.

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