The P8 is an ASW aircraft, so explain how an ASW aircraft was capable of dropping a torpedo or a depth charge that would be near enough to the pipelines to cause damage.
The other distinct possibility is that an ASW aircraft such as the P8 (and also some ASW copters from USS Kearsarge) were in the area tracking one or more Russian submarines.
56 posted on 10/02/2022 2:56:24 PM PDT by pierrem15
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