When a country (cough Iran) continues to threaten to cutoff an intentional waterway vital to global commerce and illegally claim the water as their own, congratulations, you win a carrier strike group off your coast!
A P8? The P series planes are converted passenger planes loaded with electronic battlefield management computers and serving as airborne target ID’ers, threat assement and command-and-control.
Its radar signature shows up like a passenger airplane. There’s no way a radar officer mistakes a P8 for something else. They don’t even fly near any other active flight paths.
Their job is to be overwatch outside of a theater’s direct threat but close enough to provide real-time threat intelligence.
besides Iraq all these countries have militaries more powerful than Iran....
