US Navy's Boeing P-8A long range anti-submarine warfare aircraft completed maiden flight with the new Advanced Airborne Sensor (AAS)...
US Navy's Boeing P-8A long range anti-submarine warfare aircraft completed maiden flight with the new Advanced Airborne Sensor (AAS) on May 20.
The Raytheon built APS-154 AAS radar will replace the APS-149 Littoral Surveillance Radar System (LSRS) carried on specially modified P-3C Orion aircraft, which the P-8A replaces in US Navy fleet..
The APS-154 radar represents the next generation of maritime patrol and reconnaissance radars which will provide military commanders highly accurate battle-space situational awareness as an integrated Maritime Intelligence, Surveillance, Reconnaissance and Targeting (ISR&T).
The P-8A Poseidon is based on a commercial Boeing 737 airliner airframe, and is a long-range anti-submarine warfare (ASW), anti-surface warfare (ASuW), intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) aircraft capable of broad-area, maritime and littoral operations.
