You could almost see the Boeing / U.S. Navy press release: "America's latest Navy aircraft finds missing airliner wreckage."
Off the coast of Australia. Where Boeing is trying to sell the P-8A.
I was curious if MAD could have picked up large amounts of floating airliner wreckage. But the P-8A doesn't have MAD. It was taken off when the program ran into weight problems in development.
India took the range hit on theirs and will have MAD.
How about the rest of the P-8A mission systems? Immature.
It is after all, a low-rate-initial-production aircraft that has warnings on it from the U.S. Government Accounting Office (GAO) and the U.S. DOTE, their official top testing health office for major weapons programs.
Software also being an issue.
Surprise.
The P-8A may turn out to be a good aircraft someday. The problem though is that it is no replacement for a P-3.
If it is successful it should be a good compliment to the P-3. Where people like New Zealand are not fooled. They have upgraded their P-3s and will press on.
The missing airliner is still out there somewhere.
So is P-8A operational capability.
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-No surprise, DTO&E bashes P-8A that admiral said was wonderful
-Mr. Waiver complains about P-8A DOTE report
-Is the P-8 ready for USN deployment?
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