Upping the Drone Game: ‘Weaponised’ UAVs Increasingly Used by Mexican Drug Cartels in Turf Wars

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Mexican drug trafficking organisations (DTOs) have not only diversified their crime activities, resorting to extortion, kidnapping, oil theft, human smuggling, and other illicit enterprises, but have been using high-quality equipment, such as assault rifles and light machine guns, wearing ballistic vests like those used by regular armed forces.

Consumer drones are being increasingly ‘weaponised’ by Mexican drug cartels for use against their rivals, writesForbes, citing reports in El Universal and other local news media.

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