Posted on 08/24/2016 6:58:43 AM PDT by Lower Deck
The U.S. Navy will need to develop an organic carrier-based fixed-wing anti-submarine warfare capability to counter the resurgent threat from enemy submarines.
The Navy simply does not have enough attack submarines, cruisers, destroyers or helicopters to adequately protect the its deployed forces from subsurface threats because its ASW capability has atrophied since the end of the Cold War.
“It’s a growing threat that will almost certainly influence the relevance of the carrier,” said retired U.S. Navy Capt. Jerry Hendrix, director of the Defense Strategies and Assessments Program at the Center for a New American Security. “The Navy will need a new platform to replace the retired S-3 Viking.”
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“organic carrier-based fixed-wing anti-submarine warfare capability”
African swallows dropping coconuts qualify?
I can tell them where all the subs are.
In the ocean!
Are you talking about P-3s?
And replacing the P-3 Orion with a modified 737 was a mistake. The P-3 could shut down two engines, feather the props, and loiter in the area of a submarine for hours, flying low and slow.
A significant part of the problem is that submarines are so much better at remaining undetected these days.
I remember the P-3 Orions that had MAD missions. Worked comms for a unit out of NAS Rota Spain when I was in the AF at Lajes.
Should have thought of that before ditching the Lockheed Electra in favor of the 737 as its land based ASW component. The 737 may get there more quickly and comfortably, and help make its pilots more marketable for the airlines, but it lacks the long, slow loiter.
Maybe they need to roll out some blimps again, as well.
Actually the radius of the P-8 and the P-3 aren't all that different.
Need to dust off my flight boots and see if they make a flight suit in my current size. (Still have an old helmet complete with hydraulic oil stains)
The problem is that the US is a sea-power, by geography, temperament, heritage and industry. But we squandered all of that to sort out the Middle East, drew down our naval forces all for which we have dust and ashes in some god-forsaken desert.
Taxpayers gave the airfield and blimp hangers to Google for nothing, other than the compensation exchanged to a corrupt politician or two somewhere.
Do you really think Obola’s administration (and the “people” he is promoting) really want to defeat a communist submarine force?
Are you suggesting coconuts have homing capabilities?
And now the Mil brass is squandering what is left to by hundreds of F-35s ...
Outsource it!
H1Bs welcome!!!
P-3s are fixed-wing, land-based sub hunters (though I thought these were being retired and replaced with a newer model.)
S-3s are folding-wing, carrier-based ASW aircraft.
I understand that, but you have to realize that P-3s had better MAD booms and had the opportunity to “map” predetermined areas to plot out a map of anomalies under quiet times, very handy in comparing new data to old.
I’d think the A/C versions were counting on less sophisticated detection myself. Just a dumbass’s opinion - two cents and all that.
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