Originally Posted by
Jackonicko
I wonder how come they've managed to reduce the dry team by two (half) and the wets by just one? Fewer technological improvements in sonobuoys? Was MAD a full-time job for one of the dry ops?
The MK2 had gone down to a 12 man crew by 2005. The P8 does not have a specialist radio operator so that drops the dry team to two and the MK2 wet team was at two.
ESM/MAD was the same work station.