Monday, May 19, 2014

and already uses drones for cigarettes – Corriere della Sera

Milan , May 18, 2014 – 11:18

     
     
 

And where Amazon has yet to arrive, arrived smuggling. It seems, in fact, that the Russian authorities have seized a drone self-built, of Lithuanian origin, used by smugglers to bring cigarettes into the country of Putin. The aircraft was usually follow a route along the Lithuanian border, then go to the region of Kalilingrad (the Russian exclave) and deposit the precious cargo.

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We do not know all the technical characteristics of the drone, but according to the Russian Federal Security has a wingspan of three meters and means, is able to carry loads of up to ten pounds, while a GPS navigator allows the remote control, by an operator. The drone can reach a maximum height of four meters, more than enough to run around without any territory undetected by radar and military equipment. Without discovery, the Russian authorities have put in action to see if it was an isolated incident, or a more complex, which might not only involves the smuggling of cigarettes. After all, is not new: last November, traffickers have tried to deliver the drug in a Georgia prison, just with the help of a drone. And the same happened in the same period, in Quebec, and in March in Sao Paulo, Brazil. The supply of drugs to prisons is a very lucrative market, and the use of drones has proved the perfect solution, because, until then, had used much less efficient techniques. For example, huge catapults discharging the packs of cocaine and marijuana on the roofs of detention facilities. In the prison of St. Paul, on the other hand, the drone has delivered the parcel in the middle of the courtyard, with the prisoners in the nimble him disappear. Only a subsequent search of the cells has revealed the mystery. Returning to the Russian case, has mounted a lot of curiosity about the drone Lithuanian. One wonders, for example, what kind of battery had installed, and especially at what distance is found the operator. The Kremlin authorities say they have yet stopped any suspicion. What happened demonstrates the attention that crime poses to the most innovative technological solutions, which are often taken well in advance of companies and institutions. So, while Jeff Bezos, last December, stated that home deliveries via drone will become reality within four or five years, an automated aircraft was en route, another, to Russia, to the delight of tobacco users.

May 18, 2014 | 11:18

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