>>1486541
probably another tanker intercept

>>1486543
They're definitely after a sea vessel, but the rapid mobilization/expanding pattern looks a lot more like a search operation.
Also, the P-8 wouldn't run with a transponder on if this were a planned operation/slow rollout like a tanker intercept.

Ayy lmaos

>>1486541
A Chinese tanker full of drones

I'm counting three P-8s on flightradar.

>>1486561
Third P-8 is heading North, most likely not directly involved.
>>1486558
Sounds possible; All current forces in theater are performing (relatively) small circles around select points. The Chinook is hovering so low it keeps reading as being underwater.

>>1486541
Either a SAR op or a training exercise.

Current status: Crew change. New Black Hawks and 1x C130 currently moving into AO, existing crafts now heading for home.
Chinook: Still hovering.
Osprey: Found something, now hovering.
Main P-8: Returned to airfield.
Final P-8: Running a long recon pattern far south.

>>1486568
Search and rescue to find four different targets, in four different places? Pulling in assets from all over the region at breakneck speeds?
The P-8s turning on transponders is strange enough as is, never mind that the operation has now strayed over Mexico's sea border several times.

>>1486541
Occams razor is that a bunch of military aircraft in an area commonly used for military training exercises is... a military training exercise.