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2025-03-09 Caribbean-Latin America

US P-3B Orion Spy Plane Spotted Over Mexico As SIGINT Ops Target Cartels

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Posted by Besoeker 2025-03-09 00:17|| || Front Page|| [11133 views ] Top
File under: Narcos

#1 The P-3 is not a spy plane.

Posted by Super Hose 2025-03-09 00:52|| 2025-03-09 00:52|| Front Page Top

#2 The USN still uses the Orion?

Thought they switched over to the P-8

Posted by badanov 2025-03-09 04:41|| 2025-03-09 04:41|| Front Page Top

#3 Super Hose,

There's a P-3 variant, the EP-3, that's outfitted for electronic intel work. The bird that force-landed in China some years back was one of those.

Mike

Posted by MikeKozlowski 2025-03-09 08:09|| 2025-03-09 08:09|| Front Page Top

#4 Better get rid of those cell phones, hermanos; I know where you can get some pagers cheap; only used once.

Posted by Mercutio 2025-03-09 08:54|| 2025-03-09 08:54|| Front Page Top

#5 The P-3 is not a spy plane.

Searching for Mexican narco-submarines.

Posted by SteveS 2025-03-09 09:37|| 2025-03-09 09:37|| Front Page Top

#6 Mapping Mexican and cartel radar/surveillance coverage to establish air corridor/voids for insertion routes to targeted cartel sites?

Posted by NoMoreBS 2025-03-09 14:52|| 2025-03-09 14:52|| Front Page Top

#7 /\ :-)

Posted by Besoeker 2025-03-09 14:56|| 2025-03-09 14:56|| Front Page Top

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