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  2. Lockheed P-3 Orion - Wikipedia

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    The Lockheed P-3 Orion is a four-engined, turboprop anti-submarine and maritime surveillance aircraft developed for the United States Navy and introduced in the 1960s. Lockheed based it on the L-188 Electra commercial airliner; it is easily distinguished from the Electra by its distinctive tail stinger or "MAD" boom, used for the magnetic anomaly detection (MAD) of submarines.

  3. List of Lockheed P-3 Orion variants - Wikipedia

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    P-3C Update IV: P-3C with Boeing Update 4 avionics suite. Update 4 was intended to be the common avionics suite for the P-3C aircraft and its planned replacement, the Lockheed P-7, which never made it to production. One P-3C was converted to the UD4 interior and that aircraft was later stripped and turned into a Special Mission aircraft.

  4. List of accidents and incidents involving military aircraft ...

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    Two US Navy Lockheed P-3C Orion anti-submarine patrol aircraft, P-3C 158930 coded 'SG 12', [45] and P-3C 159325, [39] [46] 'SG 8', [46] are lost during an ASW training mission off the San Diego, California coast when they collide in bad weather. The crash occurs in a storm 60 miles SW of San Diego at 0226 hrs., as one aircraft flies to relieve ...

  5. Pilot’s POV videos reveal what takeoff and landing look like ...

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  6. Lockheed AP-3C Orion - Wikipedia

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    The Lockheed AP-3C Orion is a variant of the P-3 Orion formerly used by the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) for tasks such as naval fleet support, maritime surveillance, search and survivor supply and anti-surface and anti-submarine warfare. The 18 AP-3C Orions were upgraded from P-3Cs between 1997 and 2005, with the program taking three ...

  7. VP-40 (1951–present) - Wikipedia

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    VP-40 P5M-2 c.1960 VP-40 SP-5B makes JATO takeoff from Cam Ranh Bay, 1967 VP-40 P-3C in 2003. 20 January 1951: VP-40 was established at NAS San Diego, California, under the operational control of FAW-14, as a seaplane squadron flying the PBM-5 Mariner.

  8. Lockheed EP-3 - Wikipedia

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    On 29 January 2018, a near accident was reported on the Black Sea, when a Russian Su-27 passed a U.S. EP-3 at a distance of several feet. [3] [4]In a separate incident, on 5 November 2018, a U.S. EP-3 was again claimed to have been closely passed in international airspace by a Russian Su-27.

  9. We Might Have Just Seen the World's First Anti-Ship Ballistic ...

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    The Houthi Aasef missile (seen in video below at the 1 hour 32 minute mark) appears to be a stretched Khalij Fars with modestly greater range. Meanwhile, the Falaq-1 looks like a ‘baby ...