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Venezuela

There was an article about a sub being sent to the area by the Russians as well. What a time to be alive as a P-8 crew…”hey we need you to provide ISR for this VBSS action against a Russian flagged vessel…but bring a full buoy load because Ivan might go after the Coast Guard boats.”

At this rate 2026 is going to be a hell of a year.
 
Angry said:
There was an article about a sub being sent to the area by the Russians as well. What a time to be alive as a P-8 crew…”hey we need you to provide ISR for this VBSS action against a Russian flagged vessel…but bring a full buoy load because Ivan might go after the Coast Guard boats.”

At this rate 2026 is going to be a hell of a year.
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And prior wing instructors are like SEE! WE TOLD YOU TO BE PREPARED FOR ANYTHING!
 
IKE said:
Not surprised. I might expect a 60R to be involved for ISR, but could also be P-8 or UAS. I'm not surprised the black helos got the call given the visibility.
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The really impressive thing is to see the H6’s get that far out overwater, though it appears the Brit’s had a lot of deck option support in the area now.

Short legs, doors off, no hydraulics or hold modes…. That is not a fun time, particularly for the guys sitting in a plank of wood along the side with a monkey strap. That had to be a cold as F this time of year.
 
CommodoreMid said:
And prior wing instructors are like SEE! WE TOLD YOU TO BE PREPARED FOR ANYTHING!
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As a CAT 1, our last TOFT was dubbed LAMPS against the World. We'd launch with a Penguin, two torps (one had to be a MK50 for training purposes), 15 buoys (because that's all you can take with the LHEP installed) and I think an imaginary crew-served weapon.

You know, a completely realistic loadout.
 
Gatordev said:
As a CAT 1, our last TOFT was dubbed LAMPS against the World. We'd launch with a Penguin, two torps (one had to be a MK50 for training purposes), 15 buoys (because that's all you can take with the LHEP installed) and I think an imaginary crew-served weapon.

You know, a completely realistic loadout.
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AKA "Beast Mode" 😁
 
Gatordev said:
As a CAT 1, our last TOFT was dubbed LAMPS against the World. We'd launch with a Penguin, two torps (one had to be a MK50 for training purposes), 15 buoys (because that's all you can take with the LHEP installed) and I think an imaginary crew-served weapon.

You know, a completely realistic loadout.
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We had something similar in P-3/P-8 land where you take off with every station (internal and external) loaded for Bear (pun intended). 5x MK-54, 4x AGM-84D, and 129 buoys. Never mind in real life I think you would need a 30k ft runways to get off the deck and have about 12 seconds of on station time with that load out, it was a lot of fun fighting the one-plane war to end training.
 
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