Navy's Take on P-8: Vice Admiral Robert Thomas, commander of the 7th Fleet, said in a Jan. 10 press release that the aircraft “represents a significant improvement” over the older P-3 Orion from Lockheed Martin Corp. (LMT), “providing the opportunity to detect, track and report on more targets than ever before.”
Yeah. A 737 is perfect for a low and slow long loiter time mission.
Deploy first — then verify that functional requirements have been achieved.
Brilliant.
” it would be a far better platform at 1/3d the cost. “
It’s not about money. Money is irrelevant. Capability is irrelevant. It’s about politics. Boeing has more pocket Senators than the completion.
Hopefully just teething issues.
Could be ‘playing possum’, except that under bo, he spills his guts on all our capabilities.
Who remembers the first competition to replace the P-3? Boeing proposed a 757-based platform, McDonnell Douglas proposed an MD-90-based platform, and Lockheed won the contract in 1988, with a stretched P-3, called the P-7.
Lockheed blew it, though, as they had made serious weight miscalculations. The program went over budget and the Navy cancelled it in 1990.
It is amazing how stupid our > O-6 officers can be to parrot vendor provided PowerPoint presentations.
Field experience only CONFIRMED the shortcomings found in pre-deployment testing.
“He said the new P-8A Poseidon exhibited “all of the major deficiencies” identified in earlier exercises when subjected to more stressful realistic combat testing from September 2012 to March 2013.”
They already KNEW this platform is deficient. Shouldn’t somebody go to Leavenworth for a very long visit and take their pocket politician with them?
What good does it do to say anything. Only the people in the right and exposing these crimes are persecuted. Nobody is prosecuted.
$35 Billion for a POS system and the SOBs cut $600 Million from established veterans programs. Prove somebody’s palms aren’t being greased.