Three P-8A Poseidon maritime patrol aircraft and aircrew from U.S. Navy Patrol Squadron 10 commenced their involvement in exercise Breeze 2024 on July 11.
The annual exercise, directed by the Bulgarian Navy, is being held in the Black Sea, near Varna, Bulgaria, according to a press release.
Breeze 2024, now in its 28th year, includes participation from Albania, Belgium, Greece, Italy, Poland, Romania, Türkiye, the United States, and NATO’s Allied Maritime Command.
The exercise aims to enhance operational and tactical interoperability among the participating nations, improve interagency cooperation, and assess the capabilities of Bulgarian Navy units. Key mission areas covered in the exercise include anti-submarine warfare, search and rescue, force protection/anti-terrorism operations, maritime interdiction operations, and anti-piracy activities, as detailed in the press release.
The U.S. 6th Fleet, based in Naples, Italy, and responsible for a broad range of joint and naval operations, is a significant contributor to the exercise. These operations are often conducted in collaboration with allied and interagency partners to promote U.S. national interests and ensure security and stability in Europe and Africa. This information was underscored in the press release.
Past two years or so, these aircraft have been flying pretty much 24/7, P8’s Rivet’s, Fortes (RQ’S), Kc 135’s Reapers, RAF RJ’s and more than a fair few others. It’s what they are designed for.
Its proof to me that Putin’s red lines mean nothing- hes terrified of the west. the first thing he’d do which would not get a military response from the west would be to take out that RQ-4 thats almost constantly in the black sea near crimea feeding intel to the ukrainians. We must send more weapons and take restrictions off how they are used. he won’t do anything!
Kaputin still believes that he will win by loosing 1,000 soldiers per day recruited from the majority poor areas outside Moscow and St Petersburg or poor countries that border the RF. He’s terrified of calling a general mobilisation as that breaks the delusion it’s all going to plan.. He hopes for election interference in Western democracies especially USA where FSB kompromat has been successful in compromising #45 since 2015, to undermine the support for Ukraine and the weapons that have kept them in the fight. Kaputin expects that a #45 victory will not only get the latest member of the… Read more »
UK is doing its bit. Its countries like France ( who big themselves up but in reality…..) Italy & Spain who are lagging.
Are flying with fighter escorts? These are impressive missions.