The UK is launching eight submarine hunting aircraft over the Arctic in a bid to detect and track Russian activity under the water. The P-8 Poseidons are armed with torpedos as well as specialist radar and acoustic sensor equipment.
The latest modified Boeing 737 was delivered to the RA at the end of January, and they will now be deployed to the north of the UK. Information gathered by the flights will be passed to NATO warships in the region.
The move is part of a new Arctic Strategy and was published during Defence Secretary Ben Wallace's trip to Norway. Mr Wallace visited the country to watch Exercise Cold Response, a military exercise involving 30,000 NATO troops - the biggest cold-weather exercise in three decades, reports The Express.
