P-3 DOWN

Alan Erskine wrote:

"SKUNK WORKS" wrote in message
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KABUL, Afghanistan - The U.S. military says that a U.S. Navy patrol plane
overshot the runway at an airfield in Afghanistan and was destroyed.


Why was a P-3 in a land-locked country?


Best Aircraft for the job.

"Maple1" wrote in message
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Alan Erskine wrote:

"SKUNK WORKS" wrote in message
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KABUL, Afghanistan - The U.S. military says that a U.S. Navy patrol plane
overshot the runway at an airfield in Afghanistan and was destroyed.


Why was a P-3 in a land-locked country?
Best Aircraft for the job.

The press is known for misidentifying aircraft types. The P-3 many have
been an EP-3.
http://vq-1.ahf.nmci.navy.mil/history.htm
http://rota.navy.mil/vq2/History.htm

Wayne
http://www.soaridaho.com/

"Wayne Paul" wrote in message
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The press is known for misidentifying aircraft types. The P-3 many have
been an EP-3.

Wayne
http://www.soaridaho.com/



The RAAF have also based a couple of P-3s there for the last year or so,
from 10 Sqn I believe. There are AP-3Cs, which are your common or
garden variety sub-chaser with a few more antennae with fox tails.


AIUI, they perform electronic surveillance and signal gathering functions.
This sort of thing isn't new, I read in a squadron history (no cite unforch)
during the Vietnam war, 10 Sqn Neptunes out of Butterworth in Malaysia would
patrol northwards over Thailand to detect SAM launches over NVN.


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Cheers

Dave Kearton

Why was a P-3 in a land-locked country?
Best Aircraft for the job.

The press is known for misidentifying aircraft types. The P-3 many have
been an EP-3.

Actually, the planes are from Brunswick therefore it was not an ARIES Orion.
The NASB public affairs spokesperson was vague on which squadron owned the
plane. One of two scenarios could be the case.

First possibility is a P3C Anti-Surface Warfare Improvement Program (AIP)
aircraft belonging to either VP 8, 10 or 26. This new mission is one of the
reasons the name of the wing was changed from simply "patrol wing" to
"patrol and reconnaissance wing" in the mid-nineties. The other possibility,
and might explain why no mention of the squadron is the plane belongs to
VPU-1, a special patrol projects unit homeported at Brunswick the Navy
prefers to acknowledge as little as possible.