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A Poseidon P-8A (submarine hunting aircraft) has now joined the drone
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That's the control plane. They are flying the MQ4C via BAMS system.
Informative. Thanks
I just read that Bams is an acronym for the drone. Its the broad area maritime Surveillance, so that is a plane out there looking, not a control plane.
“Control plane”? MQ4C is piloted by a 4 man ground team
This is the maritime variant. Let me rephrase, integrated with P8, not controlled by. I think they have both ground and naval based control stations.
https://www.globalsecurity.org/intell/systems/bams-program.htm
Ok I gotcha now I missed that part. Still that doesn't mean that it controls it though, its been out there all morning without Poseidon's anywhere near it. So that tells me the Drone found something odd, and the Poseidon's is out there looking for what it found, or they are doing one heck of a training exercise lol
Watch the water?