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Saturday, November 22, 2014

How The Navy's New Anti-Submarine Aircraft Sees Under The Waves

P-8A PoseidonThe P-8 Poseidon, the most advanced search aircraft in the world, has been a part of the US Navy for just a year now.

This infographic lays out the converted Boeing 737's capabilities in detecting enemy submarines, surface ships, and other aircraft.

Large metal objects like submarines create variances in the Earth's magnetic field, which the Poseidon P-8 is tuned to thanks to a tailpiece called the Magnet Anomaly Detector (MAD).

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2 comments:

  1. michael22/11/14 16:36

    Just one problem here in that the US Navy aircraft do not have this so called 'Tailpiece'. They use a different system entirely. The only aircraft so fitted at the moment are those ordered by the Indian Navy.

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    1. Unknown23/11/14 11:07

      Wasn't Boeing modifying the ScanEagle (MadEagle) UAV to fill this gap?

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