US Military News, Reports, Data, etc.
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TerraN_EmpirE
Tyrant King
Doubt the Anti Air and At versions Seem more like the Army would cut and paste The FCS-MV versions for mission types. IE IFV,CV,two versions of Medical, Mortar, Recovery, Scout, and Howitzer still it's a good vehicle and likely scailable to the 9 troop version.
I am glad they are coming in on time too.I never thought this aircraft, P-8A, would be deployed to the fleet on time. Man oh man I was WRONG! Glad I was.
The P-3C is a GREAT aircraft, but they are very long in the tooth and have been used extensively...I believe the average number of hours on those airframes, all 126 or so of them, is over 10,000 hours, with some over 20,000 hours. Way beyond their manufacturer's life span and a testament to the great maintenance and upkeep NAvy personnel have conducted on them.
But they are old and ready to be retired and the P-8A is coming along just in time...though it will take several more years to get them all out there.
Now we will have new build jet aircraft, with higher speeds, longer loiter time, and which will be interfaced with a larger overall network of Maritime surveillance that will make them more effective too.
Glad to see those birds flying.
kwaigonegin
Colonel
bd, what happens to the crew during a CVN RCOH? not to mention a lot of her current crew would've probably been separated from the Navy before she will set sail again. I'm never really asked how reassignments work on such long overhaul involving thousands of sailors.
From what I understand she goes to a slightly reduced manning. Some shipmates are reassigned to other commands. Others are sent TAD. I don't know how many are re-assigned. But enough are left to do what the ships company needs to do. There are shipmates that will serve out their full tour of sea duty on CVN-72 without ever going to sea.
Me too, whats with those funky wing tips, I like em, but they are funky, fuel efficiency???
TerraN_EmpirE
Tyrant King
They are raked style. Came from the boeing 767-400ER and they are for fuel conservation. Really I think the air force dropped the ball and should have bough P8 AGS, and wedgetails. Using this air frame to replace the c135 series in most roles is a missed chance.
Brat, as TerraN_EmpirE explained, they are indeed there to help conserve fuel. Every drop counts.
Yes, they've been doing research where large aircraft in formation are flown on the rising half of the rolling wing-tip vortices, and experienced fuel savings of 20%, a rather precise science????? brat