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Report: Navy’s New Submarine Hunter Doesn’t Work
by MIKE HOFFMAN on JANUARY 24, 2014
The U.S. Navy’s next generation submarine hunter isn’t any good yet at hunting enemy submarines, according to recent Defense Department tests first reported on by Bloomberg.
A report filed by Michael Gilmore, chief of the Pentagon testing office, stated that the P-8A Poseidon exhibited flaws in the “plane’s radar performance, sensor integration and data transfer,” according to Bloomberg reporter Tony Capaccio, who received an early version of Gilmore’s report.
The U.S. Navy has spent about $35 billion on the P-8. The reported stated that the aircraft, which was built to replace the P-3 Orion, is not yet deployable, according to Gilmore’s report.
The Navy ran the P-8 through strenuous combat testing from September 2012 to March 2013. Results of those tests led Gilmore to conclude that the P-8 “is not effective for the intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance mission and is not effective for wide area anti-submarine search,” according to the Bloomberg report..
Indians here telling they have got a different version. AFAIK, Out of three problems mentioned, only data transfer would not be affected by it because since they didn't signed CISMOA, so they practically had to implement their own COM suit (Data links, IFF). For radar performance and sensor integration, they are still american. So how could Indian's here say, their version would not get affected if radar and sensors are still american whose problems are being revealed now after testing?
@sancho
Hydrocarbon sensors to detect diesel submarines, Increased range and duration, more weapon load. (in future ice detection system too which has problematic now)
If I correctly understand, Your modified version got some extra sensors, so how does it not be a part of problem since sensor integration is just proved faulty?