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Can carry up to 150 kilos. Article doesn’t mention street value. I’ve no idea. If it’s cocaine, is that millions of dollars? This is Morocco though, so more lik
by pixxel 5y ago
Can carry up to 150 kilos. Article doesn’t mention street value. I’ve no idea. If it’s cocaine, is that millions of dollars? This is Morocco though, so more likely hashish, which would be worth considerably less. How much though? Just trying to visualise cost of drone vs reward ratio.
- BaRRaKID 5y agoStreet value would be around 10€ per gram, so 1.500.000€
- FDSGSG 5y agoSold in units of 1 gram, bigger amounts will be considerably cheaper. By the kilo it isn't worth much more than 2-3 euros per gram.
- d1sxeyes 5y agoArticle does mention however that "it was being used for packages of narcotics, particularly cocaine". https://www.statista.com/chart/18527/cocaine-retail-steet-prices-in-selected-countries/ https://www.statista.com/chart/18527/cocaine-retail-steet-pr... shows 67 USD per gram, which means that if you've got 150kg of cocaine on board, the street value is just over ten million USD. I don't know how much of that would be profit, but seems quite likely there's an excellent cost vs reward ratio - potentially even so high that these drones could be used almost disposably if they are intercepted less frequently than boats.
- mardifoufs 5y agoI think cartels started shipping cocaine to Morocco, and from there they smuggle it to Europe. It's much easier than to send it directly to the EU considering how porous the Gibraltar straight/maritime routes across the Mediterranean are and that there are tons of very well established routes and networks already used to smuggling tens of tons of hashish/weed.
- blutack 5y agoAs per votingprawn, it's 25kg at the absolute most (from the manufacturers website). If you're flying any distance, a lot less than that.