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Drug smuggling planes might not be in full compliance with every single regulation.
by jellicle 7y ago
Drug smuggling planes might not be in full compliance with every single regulation.
- sgc 7y agoIt will probably be easier to spot them, since very few planes will show up on radar and not on the GPS system. It might be enough to go take a visual immediately once this is fully online.
- lozaning 7y agoI thought the way that they historically avoided detection was to quite literally fly below the radar. Wouldn't that still work with this new system, they just wont show up anywhere?
- sgc 7y agoThat is one way, but sometimes they do show up / try to mimic other traffic / etc. That part of things would be reduced.
- beerandt 7y agoThere are lots of other ways it's being monitored. But as for the flying below the radar, there are these along the southern border and Gulf of Mexico: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tethered_Aerostat_Radar_System https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tethered_Aerostat_Radar_Syst...