Maritime patrol aircraft
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A Maritime Patrol Aircraft, also known as a patrol aircraft, maritime reconnaissance aircraft, maritime surveillance aircraft, or by the older American term patrol bomber, is a fixed-wing aircraft des
A Japanese Kawasaki P-1 conducting operations over a merchant ship
SS class airship
British Short Sunderland maritime reconnaissance flying boat
Interior of a French Navy Breguet Atlantic
Boeing P-8 Poseidon
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The Boeing P-8 Poseidon is an American maritime patrol and reconnaissance aircraft developed and produced by Boeing Defense, Space & Security. It was developed for the United States Navy as a derivati
Maritime patrol aircraft
…introduced. During the 2000s, an improved model, the BAE Systems Nimrod MRA4, was in development, but was cancelled and eventually substituted for by the Boeing P-8 Poseidon. The U.S. Navy flew a mixture of MPAs, including the land-based Lockheed P2V Neptune (P2V) and the carrier-based Grumman S-2 Tracker. During the 1970s…
A United States Navy P-8 Poseidon, March 2014
The rollout of the P-8 on 30 July 2009
A P-8A flying alongside a Lockheed P-3C Orion, close to Naval Air Station Patuxent River, Maryland, 2010
US Navy pilots in the cockpit of a P-8 in 2019