US Poseidon Patrol Plane Circles Dangerously Close to Russia’s Arctic Frontier

US Poseidon Patrol Plane Circles Dangerously Close to Russia’s Arctic Frontier

A Boeing P-8A Poseidon, the US Navy’s premier anti-submarine warfare aircraft, sliced through the frigid skies over the Barents Sea on Tuesday, its flight path hugging perilously close to Russia’s northern frontier. Flightradar24 data captured the drama unfolding at around 2:20 p.m. GMT, as the plane, departing from Iceland, began methodical circling patterns in this […]

US Navy P-8A Conducts Two Separate ISR Missions Today, Monitoring Russia’s Main Naval Bases in the Arctic and Black Sea

This afternoon, two distinct US Navy Boeing P-8A Poseidon missions were tracked over widely separated theaters, both focused on Russia’s most important naval hubs. Although independent from one another, the sorties shared a clear strategic logic: keeping under close observation the core bases of the Russian Navy in the High North and in the Black Sea. The first mission took place over the northern Atlantic and Arctic region, with a P-8A operatin…