Low-profile vessels are designed to sit just above the surface of the water, allowing them to often evade detection. Their use in drug smuggling operations is not uncommon. Although they are not ...

Military photos show the Royal Marines, along with US Coast Guard personnel, busting the drug run. Narco-subs are low-profile vessels typically used for smuggling drugs or other illegal substances.

In the early 2000s, Latin American drug cartels developed a new tactic ... The so-called Autonomous Low-Profile Vessel ranges thousands of miles. The Marines could launch an ALPV from Hawaii ...

Drug smuggling has ... several high-profile cases of narco-submarines have been reported. In 2019, the U.S. Coast Guard intercepted a fully submersible vessel carrying over 12,000 pounds of ...

low-profile, and self-propelled semi-submersible vessels from Colombia into the eastern Pacific Ocean bound for Central America and Mexico,” a federal release stated. Authorities said five ...

The answer is a prototype called the Autonomous Low-Profile Vessel, which has taken inspiration from low-profile drug running boats. "We just copied the drug lords down in [Joint Interagency Task ...

Dennis L. Noble, The U.S. Coast Guard’s War on Human Smuggling (2011). Preventing undocumented migrants from entering the United States has been a part of the Coast Guard’s mission since it ...

So the Corps is testing a prototype called the Autonomous Low-Profile Vessel. “We just copied the drug lords down in [Joint Interagency Task Force] South running drugs. They’re hard for us to ...

The U.S. Coast Guard has seized $509.9 million in suspected cartel drugs. The crew of United ... our crews interdicted six go-fast vessels and one low-profile vessel across the vast ocean ...

Marine Corps Brig. Gen. Simon Doran said at a DefenseNews conference on Wednesday that the idea for the autonomous, low-profile vessel was effectively stolen from vessels used for smuggling drugs.

at a conference Sept. 4 described the vessel as “just a narco-boat,” similar to low-profile boats used by drug runners in Central and South America. The vessel is designed to resupply troops ...