The United States has deployed eight warships, several surveillance planes and one attack submarine to the region as tensions with Venezuela grow.

The flyover took place two days after the United States carried out a military strike on a boat in the Caribbean that U.S. officials said was carrying drugs.

The new deployment comes on top of an already bristling U.S. military presence in the southern Caribbean that includes at least seven warships.

The United States has deployed eight warships, several surveillance planes and one attack submarine to the region as tensions with Venezuela grow.