Escorts in the Black Sea?
3 min readJul 31, 2023
Update, now through Forbes we have a more complete picture of the package, including fighters in Romania:
Overhead, no fewer than four NATO warplanes patrolled: a U.S. Navy P-8 patrol plane, a U.S. Army Challenger with a surface-scanning radar, a U.S. Air Force RQ-4 drone and an E-3 early-warning plane from NATO. None of the planes routinely carries weapons, but NATO fighters — including Italian Eurofighters and…