How the heck do you smuggle such a weapon into the country? Tunnels? Ships? No can’t be ships if it’s New Mexico…
You can probably ship a SAM by UPS.
Around 1960 a Russian spy in West Germany shipped a stolen American Sidewinder air-to-air missile to Moscow via United Air Lines air freight.
How the heck do you smuggle such a weapon into the country? Tunnels?
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Tunnels or trucks. They could be disassembled and reassembled after reaching their destination.
MANPAD means Man Portable Air Defense System.
It is literally defined as something one person can carry. As in, across the border. By yourself.
Same way they smuggle tons of drugs...
There is a quick way to smuggle a missile.
How many gotaways get thru the border, how much fentanyl gets thru the border, when the border is unguarded, pretty much anything can get thru and no one would notice.
The other articles I’ve read about this are the missiles are man portable, they could easily get carried across or driven across.
The same way you smuggle everything else: by existing networks of people who do this for a living.
Smuggling cheese from Honduras to El Salvador is ridiculously easy. That actually gives away who I am, if you knew the backstory. :-)
There are plenty of places along the border in New Mexico that are in the middle of nowhere and there are places where they didn’t finish the fence.
I don’t know how big the missiles are but I can imagine covering them and then just putting a wide load sign on because there’s a lot of wide load traffic in that area.
Probly just mail it to the State Dept.
Bride someone.
I'd imagine it'd be fairly easy to do.
These things weigh a couple hundred pounds each at most.
Now think of how many tons of illegals enter the country every single day without our border patrol even knowing they have crossed. AND how many tons of drugs?
This is no big deal to get across.
Containers . . .
“ How the heck do you smuggle such a weapon into the country?”
Through any border crossing on the US border. Trucks and buses go across daily by the thousands. Easy as pie to load them on a truck or bus and ship them where desired. Border Patrol and crossing inspectors are over worked and understaffed. Many birder crossings are unattended.