“The government is preparing to declare an emergency situation due to the threat to civil protection,” Ignas Algirdas Dobrovolskas told BNS.
Under Lithuania’s crisis management law, the government may declare a state-level emergency when an incident meets established criteria in at least two municipalities, or when a municipal emergency lasts more than a year or requires resources from other municipalities. Such a regime can be applied nationwide or in specific regions.
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Interior Minister Vladislav Kondratovič said Wednesday that an emergency declaration was among the measures under consideration and that he planned to raise the issue with the National Crisis Management Centre.
You’d think that large drones would be a lot more useful for smuggling via air than balloons.
I assume that the balloons can broadcast their position so that their cargo can be picked up wherever they land, but they aren’t controllable. Drones are.
I’m not in the smuggling business at all, but I guess a drone capable of carrying the same payload as a balloon is a lot more expensive.
Also you want the drone back, which increases the risk of being discovered. Balloons are fire and forget, and you don’t need to stick around.
Feel like a combo would be slickest, drone dirigible type deal