Andrew Toppan wrote:
On Thu, 11 Dec 2003 00:16:48 GMT, "Thomas Schoene"
wrote:

And the last couple fo P-3 life extensions have run into unexpected
airframe issues, so new construction might be desirable.

I have a hard time seeing a life extension as being practical,
considering the Navy is cutting the active P-3 force in half, and
reducing the deployment cycle of the remainder, over fatigue issues.

Yes, The P-3 service life assssment turned up smoe unpleasant surprises in
terms of fatigue life expenditure.

The idea behind Orion-21 is that rather than patching the trouble spots,
they would just replace the parts that are suffering fatigue problems. I
believe Orion-21 would get an entirely new wing, for example.

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