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Friday, November 28, 2014

How The US Navy's Latest Anti-Submarine Aircraft Sees Under The Waves

P-8A PoseidonBoeing’s P-8A Poseidon has been a part of the US Navy for a year this month. The converted airliner brings the latest in anti-submarine capabilities, reaching greater altitude and speed than its predecessor (without the nausea factor for its crew).

At the front of the plane, the P-8A sports an exclusive radar system supplied by Raytheon. In certain detection modes, the 408-pound radar system has a range of 200 nautical miles and provides ultra-high resolution images.

A shorter-ranged setting offers enough precision to pick up on “small targets with limited exposure time in high sea states,” according to Raytheon’s fact sheet on the product.

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