U.S. Navy’s new P-8A Poseidon aircraft flying in Japan

Gestart door Elzenga, 24/09/2012 | 19:54 uur

IPA NG

Militaire strategie is van groot belang voor een land. Het is de oorzaak van leven of dood; het is de weg naar overleven of vernietiging en moet worden onderzocht. --Sun Tzu

dudge

Japan wordt waarschijnlijk ook wel gezien als potentiële exportklant?
Daarbij is het een waarschijnlijk theater van operaties, in die zin ook goed om al vroeg ook daar te gaan testvliegen.


Elzenga

U.S. Navy's new P-8A Poseidon aircraft flying in Japan

Sep 24, 2012 By Christopher P. Cavas in Intercepts No Comments

A P-8A Poseidon takes off from the U.S. Navy's facility at Atsugi, Japan, presumably on a test mission. This is the same aircraft that took part in exercises off the U.S. east coast last February. (U.S. Navy photo by MC2 Justin Smelley)

One of the U.S. Navy's new P-8A Poseidon maritime patrol aircraft is flying out of Naval Air Facility Atsugi, Japan.

The aircraft is still in the development phase, with several aircraft flying tests out of Naval Air Station Patuxent River,  Maryland.  Boeing, which builds the planes based on a modified 737-800 design, received a $1.9 billion contract Sept. 21 for 11 more low-rate initial production aircraft. The new order makes a total of 24 Poseidons delivered or under contract. The Navy plans to buy a total of 117 P-8As.

P-8A 956 touches down at Atsugi on Sept. 22. (U.S. Navy photo by MC2 Justin Smelley)

http://blogs.defensenews.com/intercepts/2012/09/u-s-navys-new-p-8a-poseidon-aircraft-flying-in-japan/