NATO Submarine Hunter Keeps Tabs on Russia’s Baltic Fleet

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British reconnaissance aircraft were among several NATO assets that closely scrutinized Russia's forces in the Baltic Sea this week, according to publicly available flight data. One of the GPS signals broadcast on Wednesday, recorded by the aircraft tracking service Flightradar24, belonged to a Royal Air Force P-8A Poseidon, a maritime patrol aircraft known in the U.K. as the Poseidon MRA1. Newsweek's map, displaying Coordinated Universal Time, traces the British submarine hunter's eight-hour flight from Lossiemouth air base in Moray, in northeastern Scotland, to the scan the borders of Russia's Kaliningrad region, utilizing friendly airspace over Denmark and Poland in the...