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Sunday, February 02, 2014

Is Boeing's New Submarine-Destroying Warplane a $35 Billion Bust?

P-8A PoseidonBoeing designed its P-8A Poseidon warplane to accomplish two missions: scout out wide areas of water, and track down and destroy dangerous enemy submarines gliding beneath it.

But a new report out of the Pentagon suggests that Poseidon is failing at both jobs.

According to the Pentagon's chief weapons tester, director of operational testing and evaluation Michael Gilmore, the performance of six Boeing P-8As deployed to Japan from September 2012 to March 2013 has revealed "major deficiencies" in the warplane.

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