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The first of five Boeing P-8A Poseidon aircraft for Norway performed its maiden flight yesterday, Aug. 9. The aircraft took off at 10:03 a.m. Pacific time and flew for 2 hours, 24 minutes, reaching a maximum altitude of 41,000 feet during the flight from Renton Municipal Airport to Boeing Field in Seattle.
The US conducted 72 reconnaissance flights over the South China Sea in May, a Beijing-based think tank says.
USN P-8A multi-mission maritime patrol aircraft. (Photo: Boeing) USN will obtain 11 more P-8A aircraft and RAAF fleet will grow by two. The USN is procuring 11 additional P-8A Poseidon long-range anti-submarine and anti-surface warfare aircraft from Boeing for $1.7 billion, the manufacturer announced on 31 March. Two of these Poseidons will be supplied to the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) as a partner in the P-8A programme. The latest contract will bring to 114 the total number of P-8As in the USN inventory, plus 14 bought by the RAAF via the FMS programme. Other orders for the P-8A (or v...
US Navy/MCS2 Juan S. Sua A Navy P-8A Poseidon is shown carrying AGM-84D Harpoon missiles in photos taken in January but released this month. It's not the first time a Poseidon has been spotted with that kind of weapon, but it appears to be the first time a P-8 in the Persian Gulf has been seen with it. The US Navy P-8A Poseidon aircraft have started flying missions in the US 5th Fleet AOR (Area of Operations) carrying AGM-84D Harpoon missiles. Images just released by the naval service through the DVIDS network show sailors assigned to the "Fighting Tigers" of Pa...
By Paul McLeary on March 05, 2021 at 12:25 PM A B-1B Lancer lands at Ørland Air Force Station, Norway, March 3, 2021 WASHINGTON: A top Norwegian general insists that basing two US B-1B bombers in Norway isn’t meant as a threat to Russia. Instead, he argued, the new basing agreement at the country’s main F-35 base is simply a new opportunity to train in the Arctic. “We are not going into a new Cold War,” Lt. Gen. Yngve Odlo, Chief of the Norwegian Joint Headquarters told reporters this morning, adding that Oslo has long operated in the High North close to the Russian border, an...