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In 2012–3, the US government's Director, Operational Test and Evaluation (DOTE) evaluated the P-8A Increment 1, and reported that it was effective for small-area and cued ASW search, localization and attack missions, but lacked the P-3C's broad-area ASW acoustic search capability; the Mk 54 torpedoes were of limited use against evasive ...
On December 2, a team of the United States Navy, Marine Corps, and some contractors successfully recovered the Poseidon using inflatable salvage roller bags. The Poseidon is currently being inspected to determine whether it can be restored to operational condition or if it should be deemed a write-off .
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.
Dec. 3—After the P-8A is back on land, divers with the state Department of Land and Natural resources will be able to document any damage. Thirteen days after a Navy P-8A Poseidon slid off the ...
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).
In 2020, The US Navy began plans to integrate the LRASM on the Boeing P-8 Poseidon. [ 54 ] [ 55 ] In February 2021, U.S. Navy and Air Force awarded a $414 million contract to Lockheed Martin for continued production of the air-launched variant of LRASM, now operational on the U.S. Navy F/A-18E/F and U.S. Air Force B-1B.
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.
Initially, the squadron was equipped with Vickers Vincents.From the outbreak of hostilities with Japan, the squadron operated the Short Singapore Mk.IIIs (transferred in October 1941 from No. 205 Squadron RAF) mainly on maritime patrol and anti-submarine duties, rescuing more than fifty survivors of ditched aircraft [2] and successfully attacking a Japanese submarine in the process with the ...