Yep, that’s the most likely Electra P-3, EP-3E ARIES II or derivative, the ones with the radar domes. But aren’t these now used for drug boat searching. So maybe Hugo has a drug boat flotilla?
But the whole 60s era Elctra airframe is mostly obsolete, there are far better modern aircraft now in service for surveillance. Maybe they gave some of them to the DEA ...
I think the reference in the article to the P-3 is like references in the MSM to ‘assault guns’.
To Chavez, and the reporters, a P-3 is any plane that has cameras and no defensive equipment.
All the P-3s have radar domes, just on the underside of the forward fuselage, not in a "canoe" above the fuselage. I used to work for the company that built the radar in that underside radome. I worked with some the engineers on a project related to an upgrade for it. Even went along on data collection flights, on a company owned CV-580.
Such as? (Other than the Global Hawk, and other such large UAVs, which are still not so great for the EP-3E's main mission. ) The Air Force uses C-135 variants for the mission, but that is not exactly a spring chicken airframe either.