If you ever wanted to run some kind of Breaking Bad smuggling expedition, now is your chance.
According to defense analyst Helmut Heitman, South Africa has no airborne radar system. This means that if you know exactly where the ground-sited radar is and fly low enough, you can successfully smuggle whatever it is you need to.
With the fixed radar you know where it is and you can work out a route to avoid being picked up on it. Over the years I have seen a couple of reports of aircraft flown undetected out of the country.
In one instance, an aircraft that landed on a farm in Limpopo was spotted, and when police got to its location, it was filled with cigarettes.
I am sure that if we did our homework we would find that there is lot of stuff smuggled through South Africa by air that we do not know about.
Heitman has said that even an airborne radar would not be able to completely track smugglers, but it would be easier because smugglers would not know for certain where the airborne radar was at a specific time.
…whether to spend money on airborne radar capability depended on how concerned one was about who gets in and out of the country.
[Source: TimesLive]
