aussiepilot. Exactly!! Was Typh as "good" as F-3 when it came in? No. How about Merlin and ASW SeaKing. Need I go on.
Stuffy. The P-8 "drinks", as you so beautifully put it, around the same as MRA4 did at 300'. Not sure why you've picked this nebulous height, but there you go. Please please stop comparing ASW in the 90s with now, if you think 300' is/was a good height to find a submarine. Things change, but not, it seems, your ability to understand reason, from the folks on here that may have a clue about the title of the thread.