If you can disclose, what Soviet subs were the easiest to track?

Remember, we're dealing with civilians here. A news video can be "graphic" ! 😮 ☆

For normies

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Sonobouys have been around since WW2.

Still don’t think the this replaces a P3C

Vive la Russie et Vive Vladimir Poutine !!! La Russie est le plus vieil allié de la France. :)

Yes

A person could “walk” on the bottom of the sea from Greenland to Scotland stepping only on spent sonobuoys.

Hahahaha….thank you!!!

After a mth they turn into high protein fish food

Your aircraft are dropping enough buoys to the point where a man can walk from Greenland to Iceland to Scotland without getting his feet wet.

Nope....nothing will top ASW/S&R in a P3C Orion....nothing.

@@ResolUloseR out with the old and in with the new...

They are most likely overwatched by AWACS planes, that could easily warn them, and vector in loitering CAP, (combat air patrol} fighters. Plus, to fall into enemy hands, they'd need to be downed over enemy land space, where they would never go. These aren't small time operations.

I was an AX-2 when I got out. I was in VP-23 72-75.

So these are like bombers?????…not just intel collecting planes???

@@wattsmichaeledid you not watch the video? The plane carries torpedoes

@@wattsmichaele no there intelegence gathering planes they lay the sonabouys in a pattern then listen for the sub their hunting

Wasn’t vp30 the rag out of Jax?

I can answer half your question, they are not recovered. When done with their mission, they sink to the ocean floor

@@sdcoinshooter seems very expensive to me just like all the money wasted on useless gadgets

@@stanmans If you’re looking for an argument on that you won’t get it from me. I was a Navy ASW pilot for 12 years, helicopters, and I must have dropped 500 sonobuoys just in my missions.

L3Harris Sonobuoy Launching System: The large barrel-shaped device with a door for loading is the Sonobuoy Rotary Launch System (SRL) - a pneumatic powered launcher which holds ten “A”-sized sonobuoys with the capability of launching a buoy every three seconds. The small device in the 'floor' does the same job, but launches just one sonobuoy (SSL). These Sonobuoys have a 'salt water plug' which dissolves after a few hours, then the buoy fills with sea water & it sinks to the bottom & is no longer usable. They cost between $800 & $10k each & if you can come up with a reliable recovery method that gets them back to the airplane please contact DARPA or L3Harris.

@@stanmansNot money wasted if your $100M - $10B ship is protected from submarine attack. Running & maintaining the aircraft, crews & the cost of the training exercises involving hundreds of people & various craft makes the cost of sonobuoys completely irrelevant. Being unprepared costs a lot more.

Phew....I'm not the only thinking this. And that it's a 737 fitted for military service.

I did a shade over 1500... witnessed Saint Elmo's fireball undulate and crackle from front to back..then dissipate. Very cool to see.

The engines are round. The air intake nacelle is slightly oval to improve ground clearance on the runway.

Thank you. The engines look really low to ground but I’m ignorant on a lot of airplane info.

@@wattsmichaelelow slung engines on aircraft often have oval intakes - it reduces the amount of debris sucked into the engines from the runway. Bits of aircraft tyre for example. Higher engines are safer!

I don’t understand what you’re trying to ask, the P-8 fuselage is based off the 737

The P-8 will have a range of depressurisation measures to protect the a/c & crew. Why do you care?

@@nightjarflying I’m convinced you’re an idiot

@@nightjarflying you’re a straight bot, talk like a normal person so I can actually understand what you’re trying to say

@@nightjarflying speak English

Boeing on the civilian side has issues not the military side...

US Army doesn't have all the cool planes unfortunately. Bcoz its leader was too d*mb and/or softas* to let the other services bully them into surrendering its fixed-wing air arm.

Maybe, but do you think that's what he would REALLY want to do?!?

@@markcollins2666 I’m half way through Isaacson’s book for the second time. The dude is so mercurial that anything is possible for him to take on.

Elon can't be trusted.