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Amid LAC faceoff, US military aircraft refuels at strategically located Port Blair

| Oct 03, 2020, 10:34:45 AM | TOI.in
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Long-range maritime US patrol aircraft seem to have begun refuelling from the Andaman & Nicobar island archipelago. The development that comes amidst India’s ongoing military confrontation with China in eastern Ladakh. The aircraft was a P-8 Poseidon aircraft, armed with radars as well as missiles and rockets to take on enemy submarines and warships. It landed at Port Blair for a few hours on September 25 for logistics and refuelling support. This is the first time that an American military aircraft has landed at the A&N archipelago.

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