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WE Branch Fanatic
Another reminder that we do need frigates and destroyers:
THIRD STRIKE FROM HMS MONTROSE AS NAVY BAGS £3 MILLION DRUGSDrugs worth more than £3m to terrorists have been seized by Royal Navy warship HMS Montrose – her third bust in little over a month.
The frigate pounced on a suspect dhow in the northern Arabian Sea, recovering nearly three tonnes of hash and heroin in a ten-hour operation.
It comes on the back of two seizures in as many days in the same waters in mid-February when various illegal narcotics worth £11m were confiscated.
This is silly.
The value of the drugs seized is always inflated hugely by measuring it at street prices, which include all the retail distribution markups essential to move an illegal product.
The bulk real value is at most a few percent of what is stated. Meanwhile, the military and the drug industry get more acquainted with each other.
Ask Mexico how well that worked out.