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Black Sea mission for a Sigonella’s Poseidon

January 27, 20221 Mins read494
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A USNavy Boeing P-8A is landing in NAS Sigonella in these minutes (10:45 CET).

The Poseidon has departed from Sigonella this night to perform an ISR mission over the Black Sea. This morning around 07:30 CET the aircraft has made an AAR with an USAF Boeing KC-135R departed from RAF Mildenhall.

https://twitter.com/GDarkconrad/status/1486608221485907969

Contrary to what usually happens during the mission in the area of operations the aircraft switched off its ADS-B transponder and its course could not be tracked.

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