2 days ago - The Pentagon used a secret aircraft painted to look like a civilian plane in its first attack on a boat that the Trump administration said was smuggling drugs, killing 11 people last September, according to officials briefed on the matter.

1 day ago - The US aircraft that carried out the first airstrike on a suspected drug-trafficking boat in the Caribbean was reportedly disguised as a civilian plane – a possible war crime. The New York Times reported that the aircraft had been painted ...

1 day ago - The plane used by the U.S. military to strike a boat accused of smuggling drugs off the coast of Venezuela last fall was painted to look like a civilian aircraft, a move that appears to be at odds with the Pentagon's manual on the laws of war.

2 days ago - WASHINGTON (TNND) — The U.S. military reportedly used a plane disguised as a civilian aircraft to carry out one of the first deadly strikes on an alleged drug smuggling boat in the Caribbean in September.

2 days ago - The U.S. military used a secret aircraft painted to look like a civilian plane to carry out its first strike against an alleged drug boat in the Caribbean last September, the latest potential violation of the laws of war in the Trump ...

2 days ago - Frank Bradley heads to a classified meeting with lawmakers on Capitol Hill in December. (Demetrius Freeman/The Washington Post) ... The Trump administration’s first deadly strike on an alleged drug smuggling boat, in early September, was conducted by a secretive military aircraft painted to look like a civilian plane, multiple officials confirmed to The Washington Post on Monday.

2 days ago - 7. The Pentagon used a secret aircraft painted to look like a civilian plane in its first attack on a boat that the Trump administration said was smuggling drugs, killing 11 people last September, according to officials briefed on the matter.

1 day ago - The aircraft used in the US military’s first strike on an alleged drug boat in the Caribbean, a strike which has drawn intense scrutiny and resulted in numerous Congressional briefings, was painted as a civilian aircraft and was part of a closely guarded classified program, sources familiar with the program told CNN.

7 hours ago - The U.S. used an aircraft painted like a civilian plane in the attack on an alleged drug-smuggling boat from Venezuela that killed 11 people in September, multiple officials confirmed to CBS News.

1 day ago - The New York Times was first to report yesterday on the use of the civilian-looking aircraft, which it also described as a “secret” capability, in the strike on the boat in the Caribbean Sea on September 2, 2025, citing anonymous sources.

1 day ago - The outlet, citing officials briefed on the matter, reported on Monday that the Pentagon used an aircraft that appeared to be a civilian plane, with its munitions out of view, when it attacked a boat in September.

2 days ago - Since the US military is very open about strikes on boats with questionable connections to the drug trade, why use a false civilian plane? It makes no sense. Human eyes are pretty bad at identifying moving objects in the air. Our experience is of things moving at completely different speeds, and aircraft are completely separate from the clues we normally use to infer speed and size. If a modern aircraft is attacking a ship, there is no reason for the ship's crew to see it, the aircraft can launch a missile while it is over the horizon.

1 day ago - The United States used a military aircraft disguised as a civilian plane in an attack on a boat last September, the first of a series of attacks on boats the Trump administration said were drug smuggling boats.