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Tuesday, June 01, 2010

Navy Patrol Plane Investment Can Be Leveraged To Provide Low-Cost Replacement Of Joint Stars

P-8A PoseidonOne of the biggest budget puzzles faced by Air Force planners is how to modernize the service's aging fleet of manned electronic-sensing aircraft.

These aircraft come in three flavors: the E-3 AWACS planes that provide air surveillance, the E-8 Joint Stars planes that provide surface surveillance, and the RC-135 Rivet Joint planes that conduct electronic eavesdropping.

The Air Force had a plan to replace all three with a common airframe, but that was destroyed during the Rumsfeld years by the insistence of some policymakers that surveillance missions be done in the future from space -- a ridiculously costly approach that probably would have proved unworkable.

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