US and Indian Navies has deployed their latest Boeing P-8 Maritime Patrol aircrafts to search thousands of miles of sea area for the Flight ...
The P-8 is a long-range anti-submarine warfare, anti-surface warfare, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance aircraft capable of broad-area, maritime and littoral operations. P-8 is based on the Boeing's popular B737-800 commercial airliner. According to US defense department, P-8 Poseidon cost $4,000-per-flight-hour.
P-8 features an Raytheon AN/APY-10 multi mission search radar which is capable of providing high resolution radar images in both overland and water modes. Available modes include color weather, synthetic aperture radar (SAR), inverse synthetic aperture radar (ISAR), periscope detection, and navigation. ISAR mode is said to be capable of both detecting, imaging and classifying surface targets at long range using a variety of resolutions.
