U.S. Navy At Halfway Point In P-3C To P-8A Transition

SEATTLE—The U.S. Navy’s premier submarine hunter, the Boeing P-8A Poseidon, is about halfway through replacing the 1960s-vintage Lockheed Martin P-3C Orion. The U.S.’s seventh of an eventual 12 P-8A patrol squadrons, and the first unit on the West Coast, the VP-4 “The Skinny Dragons,” has been...

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