RAF considering using unmanned aircraft to complement P-8 Poseidon

[plans123]

It has emerged that the Royal Air Force is considering using unmanned aircraft in a maritime patrol role to complement the P-8 Poseidon.

Air Cdre Ian Gale said at the Royal Aeronautical Society’s UAV conference:

“Today we see value in its radar doing maritime patrol alongside the P-8.”

The United Kingdom had earlier announced that it intends to place an order for the Certifiable Predator B as part of its Protector MALE UAV programme.

https://ukdefencejournal.org.uk/raf-considering-using-unmanned-aircraft-complement-p-8-poseidon/?

[ORAC]

There is an existing P-8 thread.


http://www.pprune.org/military-aviation/562537-uk-p8-poseidon-9.html

Considering we are buying the P-8 as an off the shelf system to take advantage of USN R&D, buying Triton seems logical and inevitable.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northrop_Grumman_MQ-4C_Triton

[ShotOne]

It may be logical,ORAC but at 120 million a pop certainly not inevitable!

[Fonsini]

That's weird - I just made the same recommendation in the thread about designing a new Maritime Patrol aircraft.