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A chum at Edinburgh reports that first P-8 due there any time now.  :)

F-35B is back at sea: seven embarked in brand-new USS America, off California, for DT-III. A big bunch of RAF/RN dudes are also part of the group. First video released, here - https://youtu.be/PInLkXgYVIk USN reports two items of note; (1) Deliberately chasing bad weather, and (2) Plan to...

Re MAD boom question, see article below. RAAF does not consider this much of an issue. If they did then the P-8s would have been fitted with booms, as per the Indian a/c. BAE Systems to develop MAD ASW drone to help Navy P-8A find submarines from high altitudes ARLINGTON, Va., 14 Jan...

Unhappy moment for RAAF at moment: part of package that killed 60-ish friendlies. No Hornets involved. Unlikely to be tanker out there, so that leaves Wedgetail. Investigation proceeds, and so on. Will surprise no-one here how the Oz media are allegedly 'reporting' this. Excitable and...

Have asked about the orange seam: awaiting a reply.  :)

Indeed. After this, it's a a shipborne livefire test. Intro to a lengthy report from USNI follows. This changes one or two things if, down the road, it works in USN SAG/ARG service. Successful F-35, SM-6 live fire test By Sam LaGrone September 13, 2016 A Monday test pairing a Lockheed...

Pic attached of Heron 5 Flt. being awarded a Meritorious Unit Citation from Gov-Gen. Sir Peter Cosgrove for Afghanistan ops, 2010-2014. Libations and celebrations at Amberley the other day.  :)

Yes, the orange jigsaw in the F-35 pic is an access panel. No more. BTW apropos the video link in the previous page, the only person in history who's done a Short Rolling Vertical Landing to a carrier deck is Dave Morgan, who did just such a thing during the Falklands. He'd taken an Argie 20mm...

Some pics attached.

First, for forum admin folks: thought this best in the F-35 bit but please feel free to move to a UK carrier thread if you think best. Second, a question or any winged RCAF types out there: anyone fancy doing this, for real?  :o 8) Vid at link released last week, showing a night Short Rolling...

Agreed. Alas I can't post the exact comments said to me about this: the language here is family-friendly, and so on..........

Re MPA: either, as stated, a C-295 or a Dash-8. Just been reliably advised to that effect, and wotnot.

Nothing bigger or better than a C-295 with very limited kit. Ho hum.

Playtime with a USMC Osprey at Rimpac. https://youtu.be/ZvBdVofqA2c First non-Oz crossdecker was an RNZN Sea Sprite, about three weeks ago.

Utter drivel. The end.

Internal layout is identical, as is the fit. Only difference is the accents.  ;D

Indeed. The P-8 facilities at Edinburgh are optimised for 16 a/c. A good time to be a local building contractor...... A couple of new pics attached.

Pic attached of first RAAF P-8, in Seattle. Just to update the thread, the DWP confirmed the 8 + 4 orders on the books, with three more to come.

Yup. After the big refit to the O-boats in the early 80s the phone calls from US brass to RAN sub HQ (then in Sydney) were frequent: too many littorals around the parish where the nukes were, and are, too big. Only a few patrol details have been released, but these ones were cited in The...

I think the number of subs needs some clarification. The RAN requirement is for a squadron of eight subs, where a 50 per cent availability rate will (finally) facilitate two subs patrolling from Perth, and two from Sydney, with the rest off at the yard getting beauty treatments. The plan, such...