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Russian Fighter Intercepts U.S. P-8 Over Black Sea as Rare Video Shows Advanced Sensor Deployed

The rare in-flight view highlights the P-8’s expanded surveillance capabilities, including potential targeting reach.

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A screengrab from the embedded video showing the P-8 Poseidon over the Black Sea with the AAS extended. (Image credit: Telegram/X)

Overview

  • Russian Telegram channel Fighterbomber published cockpit footage on August 27 showing the Poseidon with its AN/APS-154 Advanced Airborne Sensor deployed in flight.
  • Civil MLAT tracking the same day documented a roughly four-hour Black Sea sortie on a Varna–Sochi track that stayed more than 50 nautical miles from Russian airspace and returned to Naval Air Station Sigonella.
  • The intercept involved a Flanker-series fighter, consistent with routine encounters in the area off Crimea reported in recent years.
  • The Raytheon-built AAS is a double-sided AESA radar with near-360-degree coverage and modes such as SAR, GMTI and maritime moving target indication, a system seldom seen so clearly in public.
  • Reporting notes the sensor can share targeting-quality data with allied forces and, according to some analysts, may infer submarine activity from surface disturbances.