{"id":56871,"date":"2020-08-30T22:35:00","date_gmt":"2020-08-30T19:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/mexican-cartels-using-weaponized-drones-in-drug-wars-to-take-out-rivals\/"},"modified":"2020-08-30T22:35:00","modified_gmt":"2020-08-30T19:35:00","slug":"mexican-cartels-using-weaponized-drones-in-drug-wars-to-take-out-rivals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/mexican-cartels-using-weaponized-drones-in-drug-wars-to-take-out-rivals\/","title":{"rendered":"#Mexican cartels using weaponized drones in drug wars to take out rivals"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Mexican cartels using weaponized drones in drug wars to take out rivals<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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August 30, 2020 |<\/span> 3:35pm <\/p>\n

\n Mexican drug cartels have begun using weaponized drones in an effort to take out their rivals \u2014 one of the latest tactics in the drug wars that have plagued the Central American nation, according to reports.<\/p>\n

The airborne attacks have become a common weapon for the Jalisco New Generation Cartel \u2014 Cartel Jalisco Nueva Generacion, or CJNG in Spanish \u2014 which authorities believe controls one-third of the drugs that enter the US, to gain a larger foothold in the export of illegal drugs, according to a report by Forbes.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe CJNG has been involved with such devices since late 2017 in various regions in Mexico,\u201d Robert Bunker, director of research and analysis at C\/O Futures, a California-based consulting firm, told Forbes.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis cartel is well on its way to institutionalizing the use of weaponized drones,\u201d Bunker said. \u201cNone of the other cartels app<\/a>ear to presently even be experimenting with the weaponization of these devices.\u201d<\/p>\n

Earlier this month a militia group formed by farmers in Michoacan reported finding two drones with C4 explosives and ball bearings strapped to them \u2014 and reported hearing explosions which they attribute to the devices, according to Mexico\u2019s El Universal news<\/a>paper.<\/p>\n

Three other CJNG drones packed with explosives were seized earlier in the year, among the weapons aimed at the rival Rosa de Lima cartel, the reports said.<\/p>\n

In 2018, one of the armed devices was used to attack a senior Mexican official at his home Baja, California \u2014 in what authorities believe was a warning because the target was not home at the time.<\/p>\n

And as early as 2017, four cartel members were arrested with a drone carrying a \u201cpotato bomb,\u201d or an improvised hand grenade.<\/p>\n

With commercial drones now widely available on the market, the only challenge for the sicarios is how best to weaponize them, Bunker said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe limiting factor is not so much the availability of military-grade explosives \u2014 commercial or homemade explosives can be substituted \u2014 but the basic technical knowledge necessary to create improvised explosives devices or IEDs.\u201d<\/p>\n

The armed gadgets are similar to armed \u201cquadcopters\u201d like one used in an assassination attempt on Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro in 2018, and less sophisticated versions of bomber drones used by ISIS and other radical groups in the Middle East since 2016, Forbes said.\n <\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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