Originally Posted by
Arclite01
Interesting how more and more countries are suddenly seeing a need for the P8. Obviously shows years and years of under-investment (under-appreciation ?)in MPA. UK not the only ones at fault here then..........
List now includes:
India
Norway
USA
UK
Australia
and potentially Italy, New Zealand and Canada.
Amazed that these 'Maritime Nations' have got themselves into this situation. and the impact will be a long waiting list for the P8..............
To be fair, of those, only the UK abandoned it's MPA capability - the others are merely updating their capability.
Germany and South Korea are updating their P-3s to meet the same issues