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The P-8 is to be equipped with the High-Altitude Anti-Submarine Warfare Weapon Capability (HAAWC) Air Launch Accessory (ALA), turning a Mark 54 torpedo into a glide bomb for deploying from up to 30,000 ft (9,100 m). [41] The P-8 features the Raytheon APY-10 multi-mission surface search radar. [42]
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.
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.
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.
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 ...
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 ...
A VX-1 P-8A Poseidon. VX-1 formed during WWII in response to the German submarines threat. The response by the United States was the commissioning of the Air Antisubmarine Commander Air Force, Atlantic Fleet, on 1 April 1943 at Quonset Point, Rhode Island.