A Boeing P-8 Poseidon aircraft is being deployed to Singapore amid growing tensions over territorial claims in the South China Sea:
The United States has deployed a P-8 Poseidon spy plane to Singapore for the first time. It is the latest in a series of US military actions seen as a response to China's increasingly assertive claims over territory in the South China Sea.
The US says it will also base a military reconnaissance plane at Singapore's Paya Lebar air base. US P-8s already operate from Japan and the Philippines, and surveillance flights have taken off from Malaysia. The P-8 was deployed on Monday, and will remain in Singapore until 14 December.
In addition to the P-8 deployment, the US says it will operate a military plane, either a P-8 Poseidon or a P-3 Orion, from Singapore for the foreseeable future, rotating planes on a quarterly basis. The US-Singapore agreement, announced after a meeting in Washington on Monday between US Defense Secretary Ash Carter and Singapore Defence Minister Ng Eng Hen, also covers co-operation on counter-terrorism, fighting piracy, and disaster relief.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 11 2015, @06:19AM
You do realize that MH370 disappeared halfway between Australia and Antarctica
1) What makes you so sure? Just those satellite pings?
2) It may have disappeared at that location, but guess where it was flying FROM?
It's not so easy to find a random needle in a haystack. HOWEVER if you know where a particular needle was originally you can follow the path of the needle from the relevant pictures.
There's plenty of satellite coverage, not like the US military is going to say too much about it:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2014/03/20/behind-the-spy-satellite-tech-that-led-mh370-investigators-to-australia/ [washingtonpost.com]