US military flying surveillance aircraft for reconnaissance missions along southern border with Mexico

The U.S. military is flying surveillance craft on the confederate borderline with Mexico to cod quality and behaviour reconnaissance, according to U.S. defence sources acquainted with operations astatine the border.

The U-2 spy planes person been joined by P-8A Poseidon craft and are flying the magnitude of the border.

The Navy P-8A and U-2 Air Force craft person been deployed to the borderline since President Donald Trump issued a Day One enforcement bid declaring a nationalist exigency there, and person been flying astir 1 sortie per day.

Fox News is told this is not the archetypal clip that the U.S. has flown this benignant of surveillance on the border.

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U.S. Navy sailors, assigned to Patrol Squadron (VP) 40, behaviour formation operations on the confederate borderline aboard a P-8A Poseidon craft connected Jan. 31, 2025. (U.S. Navy photograph by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Andy Anderson)

It is not wide if the craft are flying successful Mexican airspace oregon request to beryllium successful Mexican airspace to behaviour the surveillance flights.

"I can’t sermon the circumstantial tracks/flight paths, but the craft are flying successful enactment of a communal occupation to some of our sovereign nations," an Air Force spokesperson told Fox News. "We respect Mexico’s sovereignty. We don’t request different nation's support to alert successful planetary airspace."

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U.S. Navy sailors, assigned to Patrol Squadron (VP) 40, behaviour formation operations on the confederate borderline aboard a P-8A Poseidon craft connected Jan. 31, 2025.  (U.S. Navy photograph by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Andy Anderson)

The U-2 "provides high-altitude, all-weather surveillance and reconnaissance" during the time oregon nighttime and "delivers captious imagery and signals quality to determination makers," the Air Force writes successful its statement of the aircraft.

The Navy describes its P-8 Poseidon arsenic a "multi-mission maritime patrol and reconnaissance craft conducting long-range anti-submarine warfare, anti-surface warfare, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance."

A P-8A Poseidon aircraft, assigned to Patrol Squadron (VP) 40, rests connected the runway astatine Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, Arizona, betwixt operations on the confederate borderline connected Jan. 31, 2025. (U.S. Navy photograph by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Andy Anderson)

There person been discussions astatine the Pentagon astir however to reassure the nationalist that the spy planes are not gathering quality connected U.S. citizens, Fox News is told. If the craft inadvertently collects intel connected American citizens who whitethorn unrecorded astatine the borderline oregon who are crossing astatine ineligible cheque points, operators are required to erase specified data.

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