![The report has found the aircraft ineffective at surveillance and detection & destruction of submarines P-8I Neptune](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipiEtLOOHuZb0-DuFrxBN4NhnPxxkYufi0d9CX6GewVGAKsI092MrcFLDz04wNFZHr8xpGZ8nxkAz6ti8UDz__uL7c9sj-9Wyip-A_nhLrg13oTSKckKv9Cq04tGdJA7oXCrMF/s200/P-8Iflight3-788162.jpg)
According to a Bloomberg news report, the US Department of Defense (Pentagon) has found that the US Navy’s version of the aircraft, the P-8A, is ineffective at both surveillance, and in detecting and destroying submarines.
Michael Gilmore, the Pentagon’s chief weapons inspector, has reported that the P-8A “is not effective for the intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance mission and is not effective for wide area anti-submarine search”, according to Bloomberg, which cites Gilmore’s annual report on major weapons.
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