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Posted: 3/20/2014 4:18:55 PM EDT
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One I took from the front yard a few years ago.
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Posted: 3/20/2014 4:19:15 PM EDT
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My dad did avionics on the P-3s at NAS Brunswick in the late '60s. That's how he ended up meeting my mom from Freeport.
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Posted: 3/20/2014 4:54:20 PM EDT
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My experience with the Neptune: <a href="http://s1048.photobucket.com/user/mohabie/media/Airport%20stuff/IMG_1271_zpsbedb2e43.jpg.html" target="_blank">http://i1048.photobucket.com/albums/s374/mohabie/Airport%20stuff/IMG_1271_zpsbedb2e43.jpg</a> <a href="http://s1048.photobucket.com/user/mohabie/media/Airport%20stuff/IMG_1121_zpsb5145803.jpg.html" target="_blank">http://i1048.photobucket.com/albums/s374/mohabie/Airport%20stuff/IMG_1121_zpsb5145803.jpg</a> <a href="http://s1048.photobucket.com/user/mohabie/media/Airport%20stuff/IMG_0880_zpsa8ef510b.jpg.html" target="_blank">http://i1048.photobucket.com/albums/s374/mohabie/Airport%20stuff/IMG_0880_zpsa8ef510b.jpg</a> <a href="http://s1048.photobucket.com/user/mohabie/media/Airport%20stuff/IMG_0846_zps766713a3.jpg.html" target="_blank">http://i1048.photobucket.com/albums/s374/mohabie/Airport%20stuff/IMG_0846_zps766713a3.jpg</a> And a bonus: <a href="http://s1048.photobucket.com/user/mohabie/media/Airport%20stuff/IMG_1246_zps2edc888a.jpg.html" target="_blank">http://i1048.photobucket.com/albums/s374/mohabie/Airport%20stuff/IMG_1246_zps2edc888a.jpg</a> only the last is a Neptune. Real Neptunes only have two engines. |
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Posted: 3/20/2014 5:00:06 PM EDT
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Tracked Soviet subs and rigged Soviet ships, conducted SAR in the Pacific, caught Iraqi oil smugglers red handed in the act of transferring oil, tracked drug traffickers back to Columbia and called in a Columbian AC-47 to strafe the area, crossed the Equator for the first time over South America, dropped helo parts to ships on station, supported Marines and SOF in Iraq, Afghanistan and the Philippines, got shot at with some big AAA and SAMs, conducted fisheries patrols from Diego Garcia, tracked the Nork Scud missile ship across the IO referenced in Chris Kyle's book and provided cover for the Spanish SOF, got intercepted by the Chinese. Flew 13.4 hours in one flight, landed in Kinloss, Scotland with 5k of fuel remaining. Blew a tire and took two birds down number 4 intake in Valkenburg, Netherlands. Dropped thousands of sonobuoys and dumped a lot of gas. Deployed or detted to every continent except Antarctica, 40+ countries, drank a lot of beer and ate a lot of strange stuff, collected a lot of per diem and saw an inflatable sheep with a dildo in its ass in a window in Copenhagen. Lived in tents, hovels, barracks, bachelor quarters and 4 star hotels on the beach. Snow, sand, forest, rain forest, tropical and temperate. Good duty. ETA: Edited for dport  wow somebody else that knows what rigging a ship means. I still have a RIG SAFEARM book some place although it , that was for Flags, Roundels, stack markings, etc. not cranes, booms, stacks, etc |
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Posted: 3/20/2014 5:09:10 PM EDT
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Good things to have around if you want to do some serious submarine localizing. We had a LCDR P-3 NFO as Comm Officer on my first ship. He was shocked to learn he would not be getting per diem on our 6-month Med deployment, and wouldn't be able to fly home for a squeeze mid-way through either. We caught an unknown contact s/e of Guam. Had it active and passive at about periscope depth. We turned it over to a P-3, whose MAD was broken. Took them about 15 minutes to lose it. We figured it was fixing something up top where it could surface in an emergency, and when it was fixed as soon as they had the opportunity to break contact they did. Apparently they didn't feel like dropping sonobouys either. That or everybody was waiting for us to get out of there to go back to their normal activities. All we ever heard back was that all our OpReps were properly formatted and had the correct information. Which was nice because the "How to fill them out " book I made up was almost kindergarten level simple. IIRC the initial report all the watch had to do was put a time and location in the proper bland and shoot it off. |
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Posted: 3/20/2014 5:11:51 PM EDT
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I thought you said Posleens at first. Sigh... We have a NG base near me that c-130's fly out of. Navy base next door has P-3's. Never a dull day around here. Oxnard? Ox Nard, what a name for a city. Was up at Mugu camping a few weekends ago. Some interesting P-3 variants sitting over behind the no photos fences. |
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Posted: 3/20/2014 5:12:39 PM EDT
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Whats the range of the P-8? I looked it up and found anywhere between 1200-1500 nautical miles. The area they have been searching for the missing plane is more than 1,500 off the coast. Can they all refuel in flight? whoops |
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Posted: 3/20/2014 5:16:47 PM EDT
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We caught an unknown contact s/e of Guam. Had it active and passive at about periscope depth. We turned it over to a P-3, whose MAD was broken. Took them about 15 minutes to lose it. We figured it was fixing something up top where it could surface in an emergency, and when it was fixed as soon as they had the opportunity to break contact they did. Apparently they didn't feel like dropping sonobouys either. That or everybody was waiting for us to get out of there to go back to their normal activities. All we ever heard back was that all our OpReps were properly formatted and had the correct information. Which was nice because the "How to fill them out " book I made up was almost kindergarten level simple. IIRC the initial report all the watch had to do was put a time and location in the proper bland and shoot it off. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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Good things to have around if you want to do some serious submarine localizing. We had a LCDR P-3 NFO as Comm Officer on my first ship. He was shocked to learn he would not be getting per diem on our 6-month Med deployment, and wouldn't be able to fly home for a squeeze mid-way through either. We caught an unknown contact s/e of Guam. Had it active and passive at about periscope depth. We turned it over to a P-3, whose MAD was broken. Took them about 15 minutes to lose it. We figured it was fixing something up top where it could surface in an emergency, and when it was fixed as soon as they had the opportunity to break contact they did. Apparently they didn't feel like dropping sonobouys either. That or everybody was waiting for us to get out of there to go back to their normal activities. All we ever heard back was that all our OpReps were properly formatted and had the correct information. Which was nice because the "How to fill them out " book I made up was almost kindergarten level simple. IIRC the initial report all the watch had to do was put a time and location in the proper bland and shoot it off. My brother would also beg to differ. He was on Lockwood (FF-1064) prosecuting a contact, was OOD and stepped off the bridge wing to give a rudder order and a sonobouy hit the bridgewing between the hatch and alidade. He wanted to save it as a souvenir, but it disappeared during the investigation. |
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Posted: 3/20/2014 5:18:40 PM EDT
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I was NTDS Officer on the Horne (CG-30) and we were going to get some fam flights for the ASW and NTDS folks out of Cubi Point the next few days. Watch eth bird that was supposed to be the one we were going to ride on spin into Subic Bay.
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Posted: 3/20/2014 5:26:44 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Prowlers flying through the Columbia Gorge will get your attention.  Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: I had no idea we had P-3 weenies here. Someone needs to message ATACORION. Formerly disgrunted Prowler guy here.  Prowlers flying through the Columbia Gorge will get your attention. Having been sitting on the rim of the Columbia Gorge one beautiful day with an old GF, and suddenly looking down at a couple of Prowlers roaring by, you're absolutely right.  |
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Posted: 3/20/2014 5:30:55 PM EDT
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Having been sitting on the rim of the Columbia Gorge one beautiful day with an old GF, and suddenly looking down at a couple of Prowlers roaring by, you're absolutely right.
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I had no idea we had P-3 weenies here. Someone needs to message ATACORION. Formerly disgrunted Prowler guy here. Prowlers flying through the Columbia Gorge will get your attention.
Having been sitting on the rim of the Columbia Gorge one beautiful day with an old GF, and suddenly looking down at a couple of Prowlers roaring by, you're absolutely right.
F-16's , A-10's everyday you get a bit burned out. |
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Posted: 3/20/2014 5:48:47 PM EDT
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On deployment to Kadena in '78 we were doing a high power turn. We were next to a taxiway and just as we set 1010 a couple of Air Force F-4s taxied by. Just about blew them off the taxiway. The Air Force put us down by the engine test stand after that.
Doing Bullpup shoots. Having them go ballistic wasn't uncommon. We had one come off the rail and explode about 200 or so feet in front of the wing. Talk about evasive maneuvers! Still had to change a leading edge. Doing a VP/SS off Point Sur and as we came into the ops area watching the sub go sinker and seeing the plankton trail light up as it went down from miles away. |
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Posted: 3/20/2014 5:56:31 PM EDT
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Damn just lost my post with pics, here it is again.
My brother took these at the Triangle Complex Fires in Chino Hills, November 2008. Yes, he is looking down on some of those. He doesn't mind VP type a/c. Just as long as they aren't dropping sono-bouys on him. (If you go the PBase Gallery, he also has pics of DC-10s and helos doing similar things.) 
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Posted: 3/20/2014 5:57:55 PM EDT
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I frequently have Navy P-3's buzz my house on the landing pattern into Missoula, MT airport doing touch and goes. Watched one do at least 20 of them yesterday while running the dog. It's weird.. during fire season or in the workups for fire season I expect it since they are based out of here helping out the forest service with the FLIR system looking for hot spots. Middle of winter? dunno. Still cool though.
I also see a lot of Neptune Aviation's P2V's since they are based out of Missoula as well. Sadly those are going away and being replaced with Bae-146's. |
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Posted: 3/20/2014 6:47:25 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: This thread is now about the P-2V Neptune. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/63/P2V-7_VP-7_1954.jpg/750px-P2V-7_VP-7_1954.jpg Thanks. My dad was the CO of VT-31. They trained pilots on the Neptune and the P5 series of sea planes. |
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Posted: 3/20/2014 6:51:34 PM EDT
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Who was flying the P3's that took the video during the Mogadishu/Blackhawk Down mission? Bet they could tell some interesting stories. I met the author of Black Down and he said he got a special viewing of those videos. Anyone have a copy of those videos they can show us? Got to go, I hear the swat team/NSA banging on my door.
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Posted: 3/20/2014 6:59:38 PM EDT
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I went dumpster diving for spare parts to pass along to the guys putting the Hainan Island P3 back together.
It was an odd cross of an open top CONEX trailer and Chuck E Cheese ball pit full of boxes and packages of spare parts. I was Scrooge McDuck in a sea of miscellaneous small parts. |
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Posted: 3/20/2014 8:05:09 PM EDT
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Whats the range of the P-8? I looked it up and found anywhere between 1200-1500 nautical miles. The area they have been searching for the missing plane is more than 1,500 off the coast. Can they all refuel in flight? That's.a Combat Radius with 4 hours loiter time on station, depending on mission. Transit range is about 4000NM. The P-3 Combat Radius is about 1000 NM with about 3-5 hours on station depending on mission. |
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Posted: 3/20/2014 8:09:54 PM EDT
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Who was flying the P3's that took the video during the Mogadishu/Blackhawk Down mission? Bet they could tell some interesting stories. I met the author of Black Down and he said he got a special viewing of those videos. Anyone have a copy of those videos they can show us? Got to go, I hear the swat team/NSA banging on my door. Jerry's Kids. |
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Posted: 3/20/2014 8:18:37 PM EDT
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Posted: 3/21/2014 9:01:43 AM EDT
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Who was flying the P3's that took the video during the Mogadishu/Blackhawk Down mission? Bet they could tell some interesting stories. I met the author of Black Down and he said he got a special viewing of those videos. Anyone have a copy of those videos they can show us? Got to go, I hear the swat team/NSA banging on my door. That was us. VP-1 |
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Posted: 3/21/2014 9:21:26 AM EDT
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My dad was an AO on P-3's (when AO's were still Aircrew) in the 70's and early 80's prior to commission as a "Flying LDO." Career tracked E-1 to E-8 on P-3's in VP-8, VP-23, VP-44, and VP-26. Mostly in Brunswick and a tour in Jax. Went to flight school in Corpus Christie with VT-27 (T-28's) and had to DOR due to mom having some medical issues. Commissioned in 1986 and went to VF-84 as a Materials Control Officer (87-89). Did a tour as an instructor at AMO School in Pensacola (90-93), retired as the Asst. Maintenance Officer of VR-56 out of Norfolk as an O-3E.
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Posted: 3/21/2014 11:06:31 AM EDT
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Great thread. I was aware of the P-8 starting to replace the P-3, but didn't know much about its capabilities. This thread got me interested and I was suprised by the low number of airframes planned. But then I saw some comments in the wiki regarding pairing them up with the MQ-4C Triton (navalized Global Hawk) and that seems to make sense at a high level. With everything having high speed SATCOM links having the MQ-4C's roaming around and feeding data to the P-8's/P-3's for closer work makes sense outside of the CVG specific assets.
Couple of links: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_P-8_Poseidon http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northrop_Grumman_MQ-4C_Triton http://www.navair.navy.mil/index.cfm?fuseaction=home.displayPlatform&key=F685F52A-DAB8-43F4-B604-47425A4166F1 Leads to another question: Since the retirement of the dedicated S-3 Vikings, how was that capability replaced on the carrier? Just the helo's or something else? |
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Posted: 3/21/2014 11:33:33 AM EDT
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He was at Barber's point? I was a P-3 TACCO at VP-1 back then. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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Uncle is a retired Commander in the USN. Flew P-3's for most of his career before they closed down their home base on Oahu. I'll try to find some pics. I have many from when I was a little boy in and out of the P3's. He was at Barber's point? I was a P-3 TACCO at VP-1 back then. Late '90s I flew as a passenger on a P-3 from Barber's Point to Adak. When we took off it was 85 degrees and when we landed it was minus 10. |
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Posted: 3/21/2014 11:46:45 AM EDT
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Leads to another question: Since the retirement of the dedicated S-3 Vikings, how was that capability replaced on the carrier? Just the helo's or something else? Just helos, escort ships and P-3s. The move away from blue water ops into the littorals reduced the need for organic long range ASW. (A myopic perspective in my opinion). |
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Posted: 3/21/2014 12:46:26 PM EDT
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Just helos, escort ships and P-3s. The move away from blue water ops into the littorals reduced the need for organic long range ASW. (A myopic perspective in my opinion). Quote HistoryQuoted:
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Leads to another question: Since the retirement of the dedicated S-3 Vikings, how was that capability replaced on the carrier? Just the helo's or something else? Just helos, escort ships and P-3s. The move away from blue water ops into the littorals reduced the need for organic long range ASW. (A myopic perspective in my opinion). I agree, but I defer to the experts. I'm guessing its justified around the current minimal deep/blue water threats, but I sure see more threats emerging with China, Russia and our normal Freedom of Navigation needs. Amazing how specialized and large the air wing was up until the 90's or so, but now its all F/A-18 based. I see the economies of scale and maintenance benefits, but I have wondered for years what we have traded off for that. Like all season tires vs. a good set of summer and another for winter. |
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Posted: 3/21/2014 12:57:37 PM EDT
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I agree, but I defer to the experts. I'm guessing its justified around the current minimal deep/blue water threats, but I sure see more threats emerging with China, Russia and our normal Freedom of Navigation needs. Amazing how specialized and large the air wing was up until the 90's or so, but now its all F/A-18 based. I see the economies of scale and maintenance benefits, but I have wondered for years what we have traded off for that. Like all season tires vs. a good set of summer and another for winter. I can argue it both ways. However, one has to look at the type of threat we face. We went from an SSN threat to an SSK threat. That requires different thinking when it comes to ASW. |
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Posted: 3/21/2014 1:00:51 PM EDT
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I can argue it both ways. However, one has to look at the type of threat we face. We went from an SSN threat to an SSK threat. That requires different thinking when it comes to ASW. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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I agree, but I defer to the experts. I'm guessing its justified around the current minimal deep/blue water threats, but I sure see more threats emerging with China, Russia and our normal Freedom of Navigation needs. Amazing how specialized and large the air wing was up until the 90's or so, but now its all F/A-18 based. I see the economies of scale and maintenance benefits, but I have wondered for years what we have traded off for that. Like all season tires vs. a good set of summer and another for winter. I can argue it both ways. However, one has to look at the type of threat we face. We went from an SSN threat to an SSK threat. That requires different thinking when it comes to ASW. SSK is much harder to prosecute and more prolific. But there are better defined LLA with them. AIP and better battery tech aren't helping the problem. |
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Posted: 3/21/2014 1:03:36 PM EDT
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Posted: 3/21/2014 1:04:31 PM EDT
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SSK is much harder to prosecute and more prolific. But there are better defined LLA with them. AIP and better battery tech aren't helping the problem. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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I agree, but I defer to the experts. I'm guessing its justified around the current minimal deep/blue water threats, but I sure see more threats emerging with China, Russia and our normal Freedom of Navigation needs. Amazing how specialized and large the air wing was up until the 90's or so, but now its all F/A-18 based. I see the economies of scale and maintenance benefits, but I have wondered for years what we have traded off for that. Like all season tires vs. a good set of summer and another for winter. I can argue it both ways. However, one has to look at the type of threat we face. We went from an SSN threat to an SSK threat. That requires different thinking when it comes to ASW. SSK is much harder to prosecute and more prolific. But there are better defined LLA with them. AIP and better battery tech aren't helping the problem. I wish we could talk elsewhere. Sigh. |
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Posted: 3/21/2014 1:14:12 PM EDT
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Quote History"Conn, sonar, flyby, aft to forward." You know your goose is cooked when sonar picks up turboprops. Mean radar on those things; not to be trifled with. |
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Posted: 3/21/2014 1:17:41 PM EDT
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I agree, but I defer to the experts. I'm guessing its justified around the current minimal deep/blue water threats, but I sure see more threats emerging with China, Russia and our normal Freedom of Navigation needs. Amazing how specialized and large the air wing was up until the 90's or so, but now its all F/A-18 based. I see the economies of scale and maintenance benefits, but I have wondered for years what we have traded off for that. Like all season tires vs. a good set of summer and another for winter. I can argue it both ways. However, one has to look at the type of threat we face. We went from an SSN threat to an SSK threat. That requires different thinking when it comes to ASW. SSK is much harder to prosecute and more prolific. But there are better defined LLA with them. AIP and better battery tech aren't helping the problem. I wish we could talk elsewhere. Sigh. Nerds. |
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Posted: 3/21/2014 1:18:41 PM EDT
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I agree, but I defer to the experts. I'm guessing its justified around the current minimal deep/blue water threats, but I sure see more threats emerging with China, Russia and our normal Freedom of Navigation needs. Amazing how specialized and large the air wing was up until the 90's or so, but now its all F/A-18 based. I see the economies of scale and maintenance benefits, but I have wondered for years what we have traded off for that. Like all season tires vs. a good set of summer and another for winter. I can argue it both ways. However, one has to look at the type of threat we face. We went from an SSN threat to an SSK threat. That requires different thinking when it comes to ASW. SSK is much harder to prosecute and more prolific. But there are better defined LLA with them. AIP and better battery tech aren't helping the problem. I wish we could talk elsewhere. Sigh. We can meet at the SCIFed up Dominics - is it still in the courtyard? |
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Posted: 3/21/2014 1:20:07 PM EDT
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"Conn, sonar, flyby, aft to forward." You know your goose is cooked when sonar picks up turboprops. Mean radar on those things; not to be trifled with. Quote HistoryQuoted:
"Conn, sonar, flyby, aft to forward." You know your goose is cooked when sonar picks up turboprops. Mean radar on those things; not to be trifled with. APS-115 in high PRF always got the heart racing 
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Posted: 3/21/2014 1:23:18 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: APS-115 in high PRF always got the heart racing Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: "Conn, sonar, flyby, aft to forward." You know your goose is cooked when sonar picks up turboprops. Mean radar on those things; not to be trifled with. APS-115 in high PRF always got the heart racing Even hearing it dance around for 2 seconds was enough to motivate me to go deep. I may be confusing it with the 137. Our ET's could never catch it on the stack we had, but there was never any question of what it was. |
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Posted: 3/21/2014 1:39:28 PM EDT
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My father was a crew chief on P-3's before retiring in the early '80's. His story was that while in Kadena Okinawa, his plane was taxing for takeoff for a patrol mission. While taxing, a sonobuoy fell from one of the tubes in the belly on to the taxi way. Before it was noticed and before a F.O.D. crew could get it, an SR-71 taxi-ed over it damaging it's landing gear and giving the Sled's crew a very short mission. His P-3 crew came home with new patches that tour. http://www.umlautphotography.com/photos/i-rMMq3bR/0/L/i-rMMq3bR-L.jpg Not the last time a sono-buoy fell off a P-3 and probably not the last. Any one on here happen to remember the story of the one that fell off a P-3 a few years ago around NAS JAX? |
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Posted: 3/21/2014 3:07:39 PM EDT
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Posted: 3/21/2014 3:11:18 PM EDT
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Even hearing it dance around for 2 seconds was enough to motivate me to go deep. I may be confusing it with the 137. Our ET's could never catch it on the stack we had, but there was never any question of what it was. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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"Conn, sonar, flyby, aft to forward." You know your goose is cooked when sonar picks up turboprops. Mean radar on those things; not to be trifled with. APS-115 in high PRF always got the heart racing Even hearing it dance around for 2 seconds was enough to motivate me to go deep. I may be confusing it with the 137. Our ET's could never catch it on the stack we had, but there was never any question of what it was. APS-115 served us OK through most of the Cold War. APS-137 is the real game changer. Not only the capabilities of the radar, but the waveform is quite a bit different. |
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Posted: 3/21/2014 3:11:46 PM EDT
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We can meet at the SCIFed up Dominics - is it still in the courtyard? Nope. |
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Posted: 3/21/2014 3:18:06 PM EDT
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Damn just lost my post with pics, here it is again. My brother took these at the Triangle Complex Fires in Chino Hills, November 2008. Too bad all of those Aero-Union P-3's are sitting on the ramp at McClellan not being used. Fucking USFS. 
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Posted: 3/21/2014 3:21:45 PM EDT
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Needs more Neptunes. 
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Posted: 3/21/2014 3:22:32 PM EDT
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P-3's used to fly over my house all the time when I was a kid. Awesome planes.
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Posted: 3/21/2014 3:27:39 PM EDT
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Posted: 3/21/2014 3:30:25 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryMore air-to-air kills than the F-22. |
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Posted: 3/21/2014 3:31:02 PM EDT
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Let's see a P-8 shut down two engines to improve loiter time.  A P-3'ers wet dream 
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Posted: 3/21/2014 3:44:30 PM EDT
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More air-to-air kills than the F-22. Quote HistoryI feel the need, the need for straight and level, OMG why is he flying so close to my friggin' wing? |
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Posted: 3/21/2014 3:58:05 PM EDT
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<a href="http://smg.photobucket.com/user/PanzerOfDoom/media/94b5b1b69651a98b15474e6cb7a3465a_zpsc80efc78.jpg.html" target="_blank">http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v48/PanzerOfDoom/94b5b1b69651a98b15474e6cb7a3465a_zpsc80efc78.jpg</a> Soviet sub captains worst nightmare! |
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Posted: 3/21/2014 4:04:47 PM EDT
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Let's see a P-8 shut down two engines to improve loiter time. A P-3'ers wet dream http://airrefuelingarchive.files.wordpress.com/2009/05/p3-refueling.jpg Not for the tube rats. 12 hours is long enough. |
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Posted: 3/21/2014 4:07:41 PM EDT
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My dad was a mechanic on P3s in the late 60's early 70s. I know nothing about how the VP stuff works but the tags on his truck are VPxx (not ohio tags). I'll send him a link to this thread. Im sure he'll enjoy the pics.
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Posted: 3/21/2014 4:07:43 PM EDT
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More air-to-air kills than the F-22. Quote HistoryI flew to Japan in the EP-3 that landed in Hainan. The bolted new wings on it and put it back into service. They got special permission for the tail feathers. Most of the time it's a standard logo, the bat on that plane takes up the entire tail, it's got red evil eyes and giant teeth and talons. |
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