Recently a U.S. Coast Guard HITRON sniper fired a single shot from a Barrett M82 .50 BMG anti-materiel rifle mounted in an MH-65E Dolphin helicopter, instantly disabling the engines of a fleeing drug-trafficking “go-fast” vessel. The operation unfolded Tuesday during Operation Pacific Viper, a focused counter-narcotics surge in the Eastern Pacific trafficking corridor. Per the government- The interdiction yielded more than 20,000 pounds (approximately 9,100 kilograms) of pure cocaine with an est