The USA Southern Command (SOUTHCOM) introduced on Sunday that U.S. forces carried out a “deadly kinetic strike” towards a drug-trafficking vessel in Japanese Pacific waters, killing three male narco-terrorists.
SOUTHCOM knowledgeable in an official assertion that the operation was carried out by Joint Process Power Southern Spear on the course of Commander Gen. Francis L. Donovan.
“Intelligence confirmed the vessel was transiting alongside identified narco-trafficking routes within the Japanese Pacific and was engaged in narco-trafficking operations,” the assertion learn.
“Three male narco-terrorists had been killed throughout this motion. No U.S. army forces had been harmed,” the assertion concluded.
SOUTHCOM shared unclassified footage of the strike on its web site and on social media.
Sunday’s strike is the newest publicly identified army operation of its nature because the begin of Operation Southern Spear, a U.S. army counter-narco-terrorism safety marketing campaign launched by the Division of Warfare in late 2025 aimed toward detecting, disrupting, and degrading transnational felony and illicit maritime networks.
The strike comes hours after SOUTHCOM introduced on Friday that it carried out a separate deadly kinetic strike that day towards one other drug-trafficking vessel within the Japanese Pacific, killing two male narco-terrorists. Like Sunday’s operation, no U.S. army forces had been harmed throughout the April 24 strike. Over 50 strikes have been carried out towards drug trafficking vessels since September, with at the least 185 drug traffickers reportedly killed since then.
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