VICE claims this was a "DJI Spreading Wings s900" drone [1]. There is a nice little demo video on youtube [2], but it is hard not to mentally replace "camera ge

VICE claims this was a "DJI Spreading Wings s900" drone [1]. There is a nice little demo video on youtube [2], but it is hard not to mentally replace "camera gear" with "6.5 pounds of meth", when watching it after reading the news story. Looks like it is about $3,800 USD rigged up [3]. The specs say it can only fly for 18 minutes [4], so they had to have been pretty close by! As battery tech, software auto pilots, and availability improves, this is likely going to become a much larger issue. [1] https://news.vice.com/article/drone-carrying-three-kilos-of-meth-crashes-in-tijuana https://news.vice.com/article/drone-carrying-three-kilos-of-... [2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8aC9Z7-Qxwk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8aC9Z7-Qxwk [3] http://www.popphoto.com/gear/2014/08/new-gear-dji-spreading-wings-s900-drone http://www.popphoto.com/gear/2014/08/new-gear-dji-spreading-... [4] http://www.dji.com/product/spreading-wings-s900/spec http://www.dji.com/product/spreading-wings-s900/spec