A Coast Guard helicopter sniper took out the engine of a drug boat in the Eastern Pacific as the Trump Administration wages a real war on drugs.
More than 20,000 pounds of cocaine were seized in one day as part of Operation Pacific Viper.
The video, obtained by Fox News, shows the Coast Guard sniper disabling the vessel’s engine.
A separate Coast Guard vessel arrives and seizes the drugs.
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Fox News reported:
The Coast Guard cutter Munro seized more than 20,000 pounds of cocaine in a single drug interdiction mission Tuesday, the largest seizure a national security cutter had completed involving a go-fast vessel.
New video footage shared with Fox News Digital depicts Coast Guard forces, including a sniper from the service’s Helicopter Interdiction Tactical Squadron (HITRON) based in Jacksonville, Florida, utilizing disabling fire against a go-fast vessel as it completes a drug interdiction mission for Operation Pacific Viper.
The amount of cocaine seized in the mission, which occurred in the Eastern Pacific south of Mexico, amounts to more than 7.5 million potentially lethal doses, according to the service.
Operation Pacific Viper launched in August and is a combined initiative between the Coast Guard and Navy that seeks to counter the flow of illegal drugs to the U.S. in alignment with President Donald Trump’s broader effort to crack down on drug cartels in Latin America.
As of October, the Coast Guard reported it had snatched 100,000 pounds of cocaine in the eastern Pacific Ocean under Operation Pacific Viper. That translates to roughly 1,600 pounds of cocaine nabbed daily, according to the service.
The US military has taken out 22 narco-terrorist vessels this year.
Meanwhile, the Democrats are attacking President Trump and Secretary of War Pete Hegseth for vaporizing the drug boats.
Earlier this week the Democrat-media’s “double-tap hoax” fell apart after it was revealed that narco-traffickers climbed back onto their boat to recover drugs, forcing a second strike.
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