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February 4, 2025

 

A U.S. Air Force RC-135V Rivet Joint conducted a highly unusual flight in the Gulf of California yesterday, between Mexico's Baja Peninsula and the rest of that country, according to online flight tracking data. The strategic intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) plane looks to have done the same today. This comes amid talk from the Trump administration of unprecedented direct action by American forces against drug cartels. Read more about the flight here.   -- Kyle Gunn The War Zone

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