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Aviation Week & Space Technology - DT Edition April 21, 2014

VOL. 176 NO. 13 April 21, 2014

Undersea Warfare

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Delays And Cost Challenges Beset Airborne ASW

Apr 21, 2014
The U.S. Navy’s Boeing P-8A Poseidon maritime patrol and antisubmarine warfare (ASW) aircraft made the headlines in March when aircraft of patrol squadron VP-16, deployed to Kadena AB in Okinawa, supported the search for the vanished Malaysia Airlines Flight 370. But although the P-8A is the largest and most costly aircraft ever built for ASW, its ability to detect submarines at long range is inferior to that of the P-3C Orion, which it is intended to replace.