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Narcosubmarinos.

As Colombian cartels try to regain business lost to the Mexicans,

emerging more and more sophisticated vessels to reach the coast sneak United States.

Next Wednesday will be a year that the famous mobster Vyacheslav Ivankov Georgian origin met his fate in the traditional way: three sniper bullets were to greet him as he left dinner in a Moscow restaurant . Mortally wounded but tough to peel, died 73 days later, on 9 October 2009 - and was buried with the usual luxury in these cases and wreaths of large law thieves spread through the world. Moscow police found the rifle in a car abandoned in a parking lot adjacent to, but no trace of the murderer, as is common in these cases.

Ivankov had been an old friend of the Soviet police, the Russian and American, who rose to the newspapers back in 1995, when he was arrested in Miami to be organizing the sale of Soviet submarines to Cali Cartel. Yes, indeed Soviet submarines, diesel-electric Tango classes and Juliett that had been decommissioned following the collapse of the USSR and oxidized in various Baltic ports. Diesel-electric submarines are much quieter The nuclear and therefore are considered more capable of penetrating, though more slowly and fewer benefits-submarine defense systems undetected. Apparently, it was the Colombians who were split, as it seemed too daring operation . Ivankov, meanwhile, had already bespoken to a group of twenty crew members with a one-year contract.

Presumably, the Colombians were right. It is difficult to imagine how he thought Ivankov move one or more Soviet submarines from the Baltic Sea to South America without leaving any clues and no means to discover States U.S. has deployed in the Atlantic and the Pacific, especially considering that the ships were already stripped of much of their means of warfare and the mercenary crew, as they say, was made by marine alluvium with limited experience in government of these submersible quite sophisticated for its time. However, the idea did not die when the operation was canceled. Perhaps the possibility of operating a former Soviet submarine fleet was beyond the real possibilities of a para-state as they have organized some trafficking rings, but a more modest program could be within reach.

Cell.

The absurd war on drugs addition to sow death and corruption on all sides while ensuring that anyone can find any drug anywhere in the world, has meant that whole areas and regions of several of these countries live illegal substances under the control of feudal clans, cartels and mafias of all kinds. So notorious cocaine production and trafficking of other products such as heroin headed for the United States is still present in vast layers of Colombian society and especially in the corrupt system called parapolitics .

At the same time, by simple geographic proximity, the northern states of Mexico have been falling increasingly in the hands of these organized crime groups that were previously used and have now come to control much of the material intended for gringos. This process occurred when the traditional Colombian cartels (Medellín, Cali, Norte del Valle, Costa Norteña) were disbanded during the '90s. Immediately afterwards, from 2000, the Mexican cartels took over in a spiral of violence that lasts to this day with the cooperation of some sectors of the Catholic Church local.

At Colombian narcos offered no grace having to give up some business so substantial (estimated between 30% and 50%) to their Mexican counterparts. Thus, they come looking for ways to transport since at least part of the production to the United States with their own. The most traditional way to do this (and to bribe border police) were using boats and private aircraft operating out of ports and clandestine airstrips scattered throughout the region, but the rapid contemporary advances in the techniques of detection and air monitoring has been becoming a very unsafe and uneconomic. There Time for a submarine.

semi-submersibles.

Colombia's Pacific coast is a paradise for smugglers. Thousands of cliffs and streams that empty into the ocean form a dense network of waterways covered by dense mangrove forests where you can build small ports and shipyards (or hide them among the local communities) without enemies come to shop account. It is one of those places where smuggling has always been everything that had some value, enough to render them miserable anime anyone who aspires to a life a little better and old enough to have reached to form a local culture. Build

operational submarine capable of entering into the Pacific Ocean, although more or less along the coast, for three thousand five hundred miles to reach the United States is another matter. The major industrial powers could not do that until the First World War, and it was not until after the second to make it possible to complete the trip without leaving the surface. Powerful they might be, drug trafficking organizations are no major industrial powers and have their own resources. Thus, the first solution was to develop semi-submersible craft vessels, in which most of the town is under overlooking the water and only a small portion above the surface.

This type of design has many advantages. Primitive, but advantages. On the one hand, it is easy and inexpensive to produce and manage, without the complexities of a fully submersible vessel. On the other hand, greatly reduces the chances of detection at the hands of ships (or underwater, if necessary.) Leaning over so little above the water, is easily hidden behind the horizon, below radar coverage of the Coast Guard and the federal . Very simple and is also built ships and commercial engine parts, their sound is easily camouflaged among the millions of little boats that pass through these waters legal. And yet if you detect them is very fast and sink into the water to rescue you, in this way, the evidence of smuggling end up in the bottom of the sea.

Thus, from 2000, these semi-submersibles began to climb the gringo in long-and risky-trips across the Atlantic and Pacific. At first, the United States believed were unfounded rumors and called Bigfoots. However, in 2006 sighted three years late and managed to capture the first, ninety miles southwest of Costa Rica. Sighting in 2008 were ten a month, but only managed to get one because their crews, as known discovered, the sink to avoid being caught red-handed.

From the very first time, Americans were some surprisingly advanced design details. For example, the use of plastics, fiberglass and forms designed to reduce radar returns on parts that are on the surface, and an ingenious arrangement of exhaust pipes to reduce the infrared profile, a precariously but effective stealth technologies. Commonly used GPS navigation systems. Nobody knows how many have been able to sneak undetected over recent years; each can easily carry ten tons of cargo at about six knots from Colombia to North America, with a stop for refueling.

However, the whole concept has several obvious problems. The most basic, these boats are still looking very good from the air and once seen, lack the skills of flight of gliders and boats equipped with high-powered engines. On the other hand are unmistakable, so that ships can be disguised as legitimate. And finally, the adoption of several laws specifically condemning the crew of this class of ships without a flag nullified the legal advantages of sinking and thrown into the sea.

And everyone assumed the next step, but very few wanted to believe. Okay, make a small boat with an outboard lower furtive interesting couple of solutions is one thing. But really submarines, no. Impossible. They are just narcos, hear. And on top sudacas . What they know those!

pocket Narcosubmarinos low-cost.




The first step was the development of a torpedo not driven to carry the load. This submersible is equipped with ballast tanks to adjust their buoyancy so that is stabilized at about thirty feet deep. Then loaded with farlopa and legitimate, a fishing boat, a merchant, a recreational vessel, whatever-you drag it under water. If a patrol with dubious intentions, they have only release the cable (which may well be underwater with a single remote actuator), the torpedo is behind and the boat is clean will continue its path as normal. After a while, using a timer, the torpedo up a marker or beacon, a pallet of wood painted a certain color, for example, for a vessel that comes after, say, a fish with a net- pick it up and continue traveling in the same way.

This technique is very effective because transportation is virtually undetectable unless very expensive using means fully dimensioned, and aboard ships do not carry anything illegal. Even though the crew arrested with any technicality, a lawyer can be minimally able to get very difficult to get the prosecutor to prove that appeared down there if they appeared, belonging to the accused and not to any other the thousands of boaters who ply the same waters daily.

however, would not stop there. Besides the obvious potential for improving this torpedo-for example, providing some capacity for independent and / or further reducing their detectability, the Colombian narcos seem determined to establish a full underwater line. Already in 2000, in a warehouse in Bogotá, appeared a submarine hull steel in the final stages of construction had apparently been designed using Russian and American engineers . I was struck by the high quality of installation. Some people need to improve their pension plan before retirement and all that.

In 2007, the Coast Guard United States intercepted a vehicle type a submarine with a large cache of illegal drugs. In July 2008, the Mexican Navy did the same with a homemade submarine , in what appears to be showing an increasing degree of sophistication. But nobody was prepared for what came earlier this month of July 2010 in a remote stream in the Ecuadorian rainforest, a short distance from the border with Colombia.

Ecuadorian police, acting on a tip from the DEA, was found in a jungle yard fiberglass submarine full, failing only to make final adjustments his first voyage. It was a ship of thirty meters long diesel-electric propulsion true, worth about four million dollars and provided with a periscope, snorkel , self-contained breathing system with air conditioning and other characteristics of a real submarine . Was equipped with various technological improvements to reduce noise and increase its overall stealth, and should be manned by five or six people to carry ten tons of genre to America. It is not known if the first one built or if there are others in service, its sophistication us to think that it was not the first time to put (or someone has a very good and experienced engineer ...). I can not resist to show you a collection of images:

Why tell you this? Because I'm fascinated by human ingenuity, this extraordinary ability we have to face the most difficult issues and resolve. Amid a remote jungle, misery cacique, far from anything like a shipbuilding industry, there are people capable of making real submarines in order to challenge a superpower. Amosnomejodas. Regardless of the moral view that you deserve the whole thing, it takes courage, intelligence and ability to do that. Although maybe I could have more lofty goals, that is the same light that brought us out of the caves in search of something better.