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The U.S. Department of Homeland Security has released footage from Tuesday showing the interdiction of a cartel narco-trafficking vessel carrying 20,000 pounds of cocaine in the Eastern Pacific. The operation was conducted by an MH-65E Dolphin helicopter from the U.S. Coast Guard’s Helicopter Interdiction Tactical Squadron (HITRON), deployed with the Legend-class cutter USCGC Munro (WMSL-755).

In the video, a sniper aboard the MH-65E uses a Barrett M82 .50 BMG anti-materiel rifle to disable the fast boat’s engine, allowing a Coast Guard Special Purpose Craft launched from the Munro to board and seize the vessel as part of Operation Pacific Viper.

https://blossom.primal.net/e5f9199e2c0d9b4cdc17f82f382bb535aa26851b3333976310c67d9344a8dc23.mp4

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₿☻Ḷↁ 0mo ago

fafo

mrecheese 🧀 0mo ago

That's not 10 tons of coke. Is that the official number they're publishing?

SuiGenerisJohn 0mo ago

I want to get into a business where my wares 100x in value just by walking them across a border.

mrecheese 🧀 0mo ago

"A single mission" so maybe not this one boat. But they could be full of shit, also, because government.

https://nitter.net/DHSgov/status/1997093732873916909

Bill Cypher 0mo ago

20k lbs of water is about the volume of 5 American pickup truck beds.

Maybe that boat has enough draft for that.

Unless coke is way more dense than water that is not 5 truck beds full of coke.

SuiGenerisJohn 0mo ago

There’s only one way to find out.

mrecheese 🧀 0mo ago

A dump truck of sand weighs about 10 tons, also. I have spent a lot of time with a dump truck load of sand, and that would definitely not fit in that boat. Although I am giggling at the thought of shoveling blow into a wheelbarrow and carrying it around.

mrecheese 🧀 0mo ago

I feel like nostr:nprofile1qqszd44fgen4ucpl3hjt7muuaazzqdahp3lwu9c07phdweelcdxf3ugpr4mhxue69uhkummnw3ezucnfw33k76twv4ezuum0vd5kzmp0qyg8wumn8ghj7mn0wd68ytnddakj7qg6waehxw309aex2mrp0yhxwet5v9kxy7fwvdhk6tmkxyrm4r76 needs to be tagged at this point.

Noshole 0mo ago

While we’re on the subject

Yarnlady 🧶 0mo ago

Both

SuiGenerisJohn 0mo ago

Really confusing term blow hole.

Noshole 0mo ago

Agreed

SuiGenerisJohn 0mo ago

Remember that story about that woman who was trying to train a dolphin and lived with it in this amphibious enclosure and the dolphin would get horny and distracted from its lessons so she’d jack him off to get him back on task and that part of the story so overwhelmed the narrative around the study they cancelled it.