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P-8 Poseidon MMA: Long-Range Maritime Patrol, and More

Sep 29, 2023 04:56 UTC by Defense Industry Daily staff

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P-8A Poseidon: cutaway

September 29/23: Software American Systems won a $19 million modification, which exercises options and adds scope to provide developmental testing, integration, delivery, and installation of the P -8A Increment 3 Block 2 mission software into existing P-8A training systems, to include Weapons Tactics Trainers, the new Combat Systems Part Task Trainer, and the New Combat System Electronic Classroom to support P-8A aircrew training and readiness for the Navy. This contract is in support of Small Business Innovation Research Phase III topic, “N00-123 Automated Readiness Measurement System (ARMS)”. Work will be performed in Orlando, Florida (85%); Jacksonville, Florida (10%); and St. Louis, Missouri (5%), and is expected to be completed in October 2026.

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Maritime surveillance and patrol is becoming more and more important, but the USA’s P-3 Orion turboprop fleet is falling apart. The P-7 Long Range Air ASW (Anti-Submarine Warfare) Capable Aircraft program to create an improved P-3 began in 1988, but cost overruns, slow progress, and interest in opening the competition to commercial designs led to the P-7’s cancellation for default in 1990. The successor MMA program was begun in March 2000, and Boeing beat Lockheed’s “Orion 21” with a P-8 design based on their ubiquitous 737 passenger jet. US Navy squadrons finally began taking P-8A Poseidon deliveries in 2012, but the long delays haven’t done their existing P-3 fleet any favors.

Filling the P-3 Orion’s shoes is no easy task. What missions will the new P-8A Poseidon face? What do we know about the platform, the project team, and ongoing developments? Will the P-3’s wide global adoption give its successor a comparable level of export opportunities? Australia and India have already signed on, but has the larger market shifted in the interim?

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Background on this third-round maritime patrol aircraft and its gamut of responsibilities including search and destroy, sea and land surveillance, missile attacks to land or sea, flexible response to emerging military doctrines
12 photos, including aircraft design cutaways, weapons and surveillance systems
Recap of the head-to-head contract battle between Boeing and Lockheed
Insider quotes: “MMA will have to be flown high, low, fast and slow and remain on-station for very long periods of time while carrying a variety of weapon and sensor packages.”
News on key corporate players including Boeing Integrated Defense Systems, CFM International, Northrop-Grumman Electronic Systems, Raytheon, Smiths Aerospace, Spirit Aerosystems, and United Technologies
Participation by foreign buyers, including Australia and possibly India, Canada, et. al.
The changes that have split the maritime patrol aircraft market around the globe.

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P-8 Poseidon MMA: Long-Range Maritime Patrol, and More

Program Summary

P-8A Poseidon: Platform & Capabilities

P-8: Weapons

P-8: Sensors

P-8: Upgrades & Variants

Overland Role?

The P-8’s BAMS Companion: Kicking It Up a Notch

P-8A Poseidon Program

Program Goal & Competitors

Program Timeline

US P-8A Program Budgets

US Numbers and Basing

P-8A Industrial Partners

P-8A Poseidon: Contracts & Key Events

FY 2015 – 2023

FY 2014

FY 2013

FY 2012

FY 2011

FY 2010

FY 2009

FY 2008

FY 2007

FY 2002 – 2006

Appendix A: India’s Interest & Broader Export Potential

Additional Readings & Sources

Background: P-8 Aircraft

Background: P-8 Components & Complementors

Background: Multimission Maritime Aircraft Program

Market & Competitors

News & Views

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