just a thought. I am no drug runner, smuggler or anything of the like, but I have an eye for tech.

This guy was developing a DIY cruise missile program that would cost $5000 to make. I mean its interesting enough idea on its own. there are the usual terrorist uses such a thing could have but thats not what I am talking about.

Imagine this, lets assume it has a 100-200 pound cargo space. I don't what the current price but I read somewhere that the price of cocaine is around 15k-18lk a kilo thats 2.2 pounds. on the low end (100 lbs @15k) thats $675,000 per payload, at the high end is $1.6 million

At a cost of $5k a shot thats pretty cost effective.

plus a cruise missile is designed to fly under radar, to be even safer you could have it land in a remote lake,  just have someone camp out near the lake to keep an eye on it. If they search the entire area looking for some unknown object that crashed your guy is there to look innocent and say things like  "I was camping here all night I didn't hear or see nothing"

Plus there is nothing to say you cant drop a couple of them in a lake.

Then when you think its safe (a day, a month whatever)  send a diver to pick up the cocaine. Then a few days later send another one to get the missile and get rid of it. This is assuming the missile is disposable. Even if its not its probably a good idea to get rid of it it, as opposed to ripping it to pieces and shipping it out of the country.

Imagine this a cartel "missile destroyer" something that probably would look like a medium sized tanker or cargo ship. but have a hidden launch rack(s) for the missile(s),    it could skirt the coast of America just inside international waters launching cruise misses at predetermined sites along the way.

In addition to lakes you have remote fields, I have heard of drug runners scoping out a farmers field having someone land a plane on a dirt road at night after the have lined the side with lights.  this would be even more discrete, especially if you owned the land, but you don't even have too.

Have the missile turn off its engines a good distance before impact like the v-2's did for stealth. It would be some dark silent object falling through the sky. and if you pick the right day of the month it would be pretty much invisible. It might make a little noise when it landed, just pick a far off field. pull up with a trailer or u-haul load it up and get the hell out of there.

I think the accuracy of gps that people can buy is 30feet.And thats the thing its built from off the shelf parts and runs Real Time Linux., so but a accurate as hell gps with a computer interface and linux drivers and you are set.  just get the coordinates of a nice freshly tilled field and plop it next to the road. you drive up and are gone.

I am not condoning it, but I know I cant be the only person to see this, so when you see "cruise missile full of cocaine found" think of me.

I mean sure not every missile would get through, but if you built them well the failure rate would be really small. Plus not every shipment goes through now. plus this way if it fails while getting smuggled in no one gets caught.  I think this is the way you are going to be hearing about drugs coming into the country in the near future(5-20 years)

Although all the technology exists right now, someone could do this tomorrow. No doubt when it becomes public there will be a call to spend millions to build a defence grid of some sort. The simplest solution is make it legal, make money off it instead of pouring money into it. I think cocaine is an evil drug, but so is alcohol and nicotine. I would rather see people honestly educated and given a choice than given propaganda and put in jail.

I think I am going to pour myself a glass of fine liquor and smoke a cigar, they are evil but legal.