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The Boeing P-8 Poseidon is an American maritime patrol and reconnaissance aircraft developed and produced by Boeing Defense, Space & Security.It was developed for the United States Navy (USN) as a derivative of the civilian Boeing 737-800 airliner.
A US Navy P-8 Poseidon with an AN/APS-154 attached to its belly. The AN/APS-154 Advanced Airborne Sensor (AAS) is a multifunction radar installed on the P-8 Poseidon maritime patrol aircraft. The radar is built by Raytheon as a follow-on to their AN/APS-149 Littoral Surveillance Radar System (LSRS).
The AN/APY-10 is an American multifunction radar developed for the U.S. Navy's Boeing P-8 Poseidon maritime patrol and surveillance aircraft. [1] AN/APY-10 is the latest descendant of a radar family originally developed by Texas Instruments, and now Raytheon after it acquired the radar business of TI, for Lockheed P-3 Orion, the predecessor of P-8.
Boeing's P-8A Poseidon. Source: U.S. Navy. Boeing designed its P-8A Poseidon warplane to accomplish two missions: scout out wide areas of water, and track down and destroy dangerous enemy ...
Germany and the UK signed a major defense pact that will see P-8 submarine-hunting aircraft operate out of Scotland.
VP-4 become the first squadron at NAS Whidbey Island to convert to the P-8 Poseidon in October 2016. [5] On 2 April 2018 the squadron departed for Kadena Air Base, Okinawa, Japan for its inaugural deployment. [5] On 21 November 2023, a P-8A of VP-4 overran the runway at Kaneohe Bay Marine Corps Air Station and came to rest in Kaneohe Bay itself.
The Department of Defense awarded 11 separate defense contracts Tuesday, worth a total of $2.375 billion. One single contract, however, consumed 87% of the funds on offer -- and Boeing won it.
After more than twenty years of operating the P-2 Neptune, the squadron began receiving P-3B Orion aircraft to replace its aging SP-2H fleet in July 1969. VP-1 was the last fleet squadron to still operate the Neptune, and as the transition was completed by 1 October 1969, it retired the P-2 from frontline service with the United States Navy.