An American plane would have flown over the Black Sea before the sinking of the cruiser Moskva, which has been in the news for a few days.
The flagship of the Russian fleet sank in the waters of the Black Sea last week. Russia claimed that this flagship of the Russian fleet sank after a fire caused by the ammunition explosion. On the Ukrainian side it is said to have been sunk with rockets.
According to the Times, an American plane, a Boeing P8 Poseidon, was patrolling the Black Sea before the Moscow River was hit by Ukrainian missiles. This aircraft is the most advanced in the American arsenal for tracking submarines and warships.
Enemy ship detection
According to British media, the plane could drop Sonobujen over water surfaces to detect enemy ships. The Times reporters didn’t have to look far, they found open-source flight data from the patrol boat on the FlightRadar24 site.
The plane would have taken off from an airbase in Sigonella (Italy) and information gathered by FlightRadar24 allows it to be located from its departure to its arrival on the Romanian Black Sea coast. But worrying data when the signal of the plane is lost for several hours about twenty kilometers from the Ukrainian border. And according to The Times, the device would have descended from 8,839 meters to 3,352 meters above sea level.
When he reappears on radar, he is approximately forty miles from where he was last known to authorities. The British media, after consulting defense experts, explain that the aircraft’s transponder is automatically switched off when it flies into a war zone.
It is currently impossible to say that the Americans were able to help Ukraine attack the cruiser Moskva. However, US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin told a congressional hearing on April 7, “We provide them with information to conduct operations.”