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Pakistan Navy P-3C Orion Thread

deemed too expensive as the 900m FMS funds were not available.

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From US drone strike kills 15 in North Waziristan | Pakistan Defence

Note the aircraft in the background, rather than the drone.... that looks suspiciously like a P3B with Hawkeye AEW set!

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Or....

is it an ex-US Customs P2B, now operated by US Department of Homeland Security (if so, what is it doing in Pakistan?)
http://www.aero-news.net/index.cfm?do=main.textpost&id=4be82a7c-2185-42d5-acf8-71c3fbba39bc

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I think now Chinese ones are being considered and it will be good as their technology would be secretive as well as cheap to buy and maintain.
 
image.jpg

From US drone strike kills 15 in North Waziristan | Pakistan Defence

Note the aircraft in the background, rather than the drone.... that looks suspiciously like a P3B with Hawkeye AEW set!

hawkeye.png


military_28.jpg


Or....

is it an ex-US Customs P2B, now operated by US Department of Homeland Security (if so, what is it doing in Pakistan?)
Aero-TV: On The Frontline -- CBP's P-3 AEW (Part 1) | Aero-News Network

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How do you know that its in Pakistan?.....and isn't it the same system Pakistan requested for 2 of it's P3Cs??
 
How do you know that its in Pakistan?.....and isn't it the same system Pakistan requested for 2 of it's P3Cs??

yes 3 systems worth US$900m. it also passed congress 30 day notification. but nothing happened.
 
@ Penguin, that's not in Pakistan.May be in Afghanistan.
 
I think PN might go for 3-5 Chinese AEW&Cs that would have some similarity with the MPAs they are producing in near future which is on PN list as well.
 
AEW&CS and MPAs both have a huge Difference in technology.
PN should explore option on Atlantic MPAs Germany/ Portugal could be approached.
 
There were options available to upgrade PN's existing fleet of Atlantique MPA but were rejected due to excessive maintenance cost and availability of more P3Cs through FMS program.
 
How do you know that its in Pakistan?.....and isn't it the same system Pakistan requested for 2 of it's P3Cs??
I don't know it is in Pakistan. I do know that the picture was shown on this board accompanying an article about a US drone striking and killing 15 in North Waziristan. So ask whoever wrote US drone strike kills 15 in North Waziristan | Pakistan Defence for this board.

The Lockheed Martin P-3 AEW Orion used by US Customs/Homeland Security was developed using ex-Royal Australian Air Force and US Navy P-3B airframes, combined with the APS-125 Radar and Mission System (later retrofitted with an APS-138 system) from the United States Navy E-2 Hawkeye carrier-borne AEW&C aircraft. The United States Customs Service, which is at this time the sole user of the P-3 AEW, took delivery of the first one in 1988 and since 1993 has been operating a fleet of four aircraft for counter-narcotics missions in the US particularly over the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean.

Pakistan requested a similar (but not the same) system for 2 of it's P3Cs.

US Congress has been notified of the proposed sale of three ex-US Navy Lockheed P-3Cs equipped with the AEW mission system from Northrop's E-2C Hawkeye 2000. This includes the Lockheed-built APS-145 radar and rotodome. The US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency flies P-3Bs equipped with APS-138 and -145 AEW radars, but this would be the first time that the P-3C would be combined with the current production Hawkeye 2000 mission system
Pakistan offered AEW Lockheed Martin P-3C Orions
 
This plance has come as replacement of those which were damaged or those have been already replaced and this one is other than those planes ?
 

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