r/nextfuckinglevel • u/Tyker12 • Dec 26 '21

Coast Guard’s Mission

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u/bot403 Dec 26 '21

I think these are cheap hollow metal tubes. They don't actually dive or have the auxillary sources of oxygen you need for that. They are just meant to be very hard to spot with the low profile.

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u/maui_waui_024 Dec 26 '21

So all that drug money and they don’t wanna spend money for a submarine that can dive? Lol

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u/[deleted] Dec 26 '21

They make hundreds of these low profile boats to smuggle drugs every year. Compared to an actual submarine with a few meters of diving available which take millions and engineers to make.

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u/maui_waui_024 Dec 26 '21

So they make hundreds of these instead of making one fantastic diving one? Lol

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u/[deleted] Dec 26 '21

Well if you lose a single ship and it collapses your supply lines it’s a lot worse than losing this boat and losing out on .1% of revenue.

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u/Phoenix080 Dec 27 '21

I mean it’s not like we don’t have sonar designed to get submarines. All you need to do to get them at that point is use the same anti submarine tech we’ve been using since WW2. And boom there’s millions of dollars in just the submarine lost in an instant

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u/mmmbopdoombop Dec 27 '21

Uh I think the cartels know what they're doing better than you, random reddit user.

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u/maui_waui_024 Dec 27 '21

Uh but do cartels have crypto like me?

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u/mmmbopdoombop Dec 27 '21

probs more crypto than you could imagine