A P-8 network from Britain to the Indo-Pacific

The proposed basing pattern is a connected route for maritime awareness and carrier movement rather than a set of isolated patrol stations. A much larger joint Royal Navy-Royal Air Force P-8 Poseidon force would include aircraft for operations, maintenance, and reserve. Falklands-based aircraft could monitor the South Atlantic and approaches from the Pacific without creating a larger Antarctic footprint. Gibraltar, Cyprus, and Diego Garcia would create successive anti-submarine patrol points along a deployment route toward the Indo-Pacific. The concept connects maritime patrol aviation to alliance reassurance and the safe movement of a carrier group as well as local surveillance.