The Navy’s new P-8 patrol plane, like the 40-year-old P-3 it’s replacing, began as a submarine hunter. Over time, the old P-3 picked up ground-surveillance missions using special radars, including the Littoral Surveillance Radar System.
To make sure the P-8 hits the ground running in 2013, the Navy is giving it a similar radar, too — and now I have art, thanks to a Boeing insider. (Pictured.)
So what will this radar do? Last year Bill Sweetman explained:
LSRS is designed to provide targeting-grade tracking of moving targets on land and at sea. In September, one of the LSRS P-3s supported a test of the Navy/Boeing SLAM-ER missile against a moving target, a simulated SA-10 missile launcher, at China Lake; follow-on tests were to use the same combination of systems against a maneuvering ground target. In 2010, LSRS is due to support a large-scale Joint Surface Warfare (JSuW) demonstration, providing targeting updates to air- and ship-launched weapons ranging from JDAMs to Harpoons.
Tracking maneuvering ground targets is something the Air Force wanted to do with its E-10 radar plane, but the E-10 got canceled years ago in favor of more fighters. So now the Navy is picking up the mission. Remember what I said a few months back … that these days the Navy is a better air force than the Air Force?
Isnt the E-10′s MP-RTIP radar going to be installed on some of the JSTARS, as well as the Global Hawk?
NTV:
That’s the plan, I think. We’ll see if it ever happens.
Yes, of course we will see if it happens. The same way will see if the it ever happens for the Navy. The fact is when the E-10 went away, the radar didnt.
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Love this site, it amazes me how they have adapted this plane. I am a big fan of the Boeing – 737 and i have watched it’s transformation over the years. But this is something different. I am curentley building a
737 throttle and am detailing all the info i can get.
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Прикольно у вас диз сделан, это бесплатный шаблон или где-то делалил?