Navy to induct 24 P-8I maritime reconnaissance aircraft

[NirmalKrish]

Wow.. looks deadly..

check below you will love it:

 

[manojb]

I have few questions on this a/c
How many torpedoes can it carry?
How low it has to fly in order to release torpedo?
How far and how deeper subs can it detect using MAD?
The sonobuoy that it drops , is it recoverable?

Thanks

 

[saurav]

Should have ordered some BAMS with these..

24 P-8I + 8 Tu-142 - Not bad for LRMR...

 

[aanshu001]

Should have ordered some BAMS with these..

24 P-8I + 8 Tu-142 - Not bad for LRMR...

and add some MRMR or which RFI had been floated (hoping or diet P-8) our sea would be safer than b4.

 

[Kinetic]

won't it be 3 carriers and 2 nuke subs ( akula included)????

Actually I was talking about new additions in next four years. Two new carriers as we know and apart from Akula and Ahrihant I think Aridaman will be available by 2015, so three nuke subs.

 

[Thundersword]

How low it has to fly in order to release torpedo?

It needs to fly at around 20000ft to release the torpedo ..... thanks to the awesome torpedo glide kits available with Mk 54

if you wanna know more try looking here
P-8I Neptune Maritime Multimission Aircraft (MMA) - Indian Defense Projects Sentinel

 

[saurav]

I would hate to see P-8I replacing Tu-142. Both should be there in the inventory.
If we can acquire some 15-20 Blackjacks to replace the Tu-142 , then our force projection capability will be much more.

 

[sudhir007]

It needs to fly at around 20000ft to release the torpedo ..... thanks to the awesome torpedo glide kits available with Mk 54

if you wanna know more try looking here
P-8I Neptune Maritime Multimission Aircraft (MMA) - Indian Defense Projects Sentinel

can anybody clear me that we have purchase 21 harpoon bk-2 in $200 million. so that mean it will come at the price of $10 million per missile that is too expansive ???