The US military bombed two more suspected drug smuggling vessels — this time in the Eastern Pacific — killing five “narco-terrorists” on board, War Secretary Pete Hegseth revealed Wednesday.

The deadly assaults, which took place Tuesday and Wednesday, are the eighth and ninth strikes targeting suspected drug boats, but the first ones to be carried out outside the Caribbean Sea, marking an expansion in the Trump administration’s efforts to snuff out international narcotics traffickers. 

“Yesterday, at the direction of President Trump, the Department of War conducted a lethal kinetic strike on a vessel being operated by a Designated Terrorist Organization and conducting narco-trafficking in the Eastern Pacific,” Hegseth wrote on X. 

“The vessel was known by our intelligence to be involved in illicit narcotics smuggling, was transiting along a known narco-trafficking transit route, and carrying narcotics,” the Pentagon chief added. “There were two narco-terrorists aboard the vessel during the strike, which was conducted in international waters.”

“Both terrorists were killed and no U.S. forces were harmed in this strike.”

Aerial footage of the strike shows the boat racing along the water moments before it’s stopped dead in its tracks by a large blast, engulfing it in flames. 

The subsequent strike similarly targeted a “known” boat being operated by a “Designated Terrorist Organization” and killed “three male narco-terrorists,” Hegseth wrote in a separate post. 

“These strikes will continue, day after day,” Hegseth warned. “These are not simply drug runners—these are narco-terrorists bringing death and destruction to our cities.” 

Footage of Wednesday’s strike, shared by Hegseth, showed bundles of what appeared to be drugs floating in the water after the blast that sank the boat. 

It appeared that another missile was then used to destroy the drug bundles. 

The war secretary did not reveal the origin point of either boat. 

Colombia and Peru, among the world’s top producers of cocaine, have coastlines on the Eastern Pacific. 

Earlier this week, the war secretary announced that a “lethal kinetic strike” on Oct. 17 took out three alleged narco-terrorists affiliated with Colombia’s Ejército de Liberación Nacional (ELN), which is an insurgent group and a designated foreign terrorist organization. 

The boat struck was “known by our intelligence” to be involved in drug smuggling and was “transporting substantial amounts of narcotics,” according to Hegseth. 

The Trump administration’s military crackdown on cartel drug trafficking operations has killed at least 34 suspected smugglers since the attacks began last month. 

Two alleged narco-terrorists survived a US airstrike on a vessel in the Caribbean last week, described by President Trump as a “very large drug-carrying submarine.” 

The survivors were turned over to Ecuador and Colombia, two others were killed, according to the Trump administration. 

Trump has repeatedly justified the strikes by asserting the US is in an “armed conflict” with drug cartels. 

The president and administration officials argue that the drugs, including deadly potent fentanyl, are bound for the US and have been poisoning Americans.

“Every one of those boats that gets knocked out is saving 25,000 American lives,” Trump told reporters in the Oval Office Wednesday. “Not to mention the torn up families all over the country.”

Critics of the attacks have questioned the legality of the strikes, and whether the US military is sure the boats are being operated by narco-terrorists and transporting drugs. 

“Another illegal military strike on a boat — this time in the Pacific — broadening the Administration’s deadly campaign to another ocean,” longtime Trump foe, Sen. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.), wrote on X. 

“Once again, there is no detail on who was killed or why,” Schiff added. “The urgency increases: Congress must stop America from being dragged into another war.”

Trump claims drugs smuggled into the US “killed 300,000 Americans last year.” 

“That gives you legal authority,” he argued Wednesday. 

Trump signaled that he plans to notify Congress once the military starts going after land-based cartel targets.   

“They will be hit on land … we have legal authority,” the president said. “We’re allowed to do that. And if we do – by land – we may go back to Congress.” 

“We will hit them very hard when they come in by land, and they haven’t experienced that yet, but now we’re totally prepared to do that.” 

Last week, Trump confirmed that his administration was considering strikes against Venezuela-based drug cartels on land, and that he had authorized the CIA to engage in clandestine anti-government operations inside the South American country.

Meanwhile, Hegseth vowed that “Narco-terrorists intending to bring poison to our shores, will find no safe harbor anywhere in our hemisphere.”

“Just as Al Qaeda waged war on our homeland, these cartels are waging war on our border and our people,” he added. “There will be no refuge or forgiveness—only justice.”