RAF Poseidon - Not too long to wait?

[melmothtw]

Originally Posted by weemonkey

How are they Anti-iced?

And how do they load the weapon bays or have the legs been extended?

How are the racked-wingtips anti-iced? They're not - their shape means ice doesn't build-up in the same way as it would with conventional winglets. Not sure I understand your weapon bay question.

[Vzlet]

Bleed air anti ice for the full leading edge:


P-8A Poseidon 167952 by Mark Carlisle, on Flickr

[Lyneham Lad]

Originally Posted by weemonkey

And how do they load the weapon bays or have the legs been extended?

Same methodology as Blue Steel Victors...

[melmothtw]

Originally Posted by Vzlet

Bleed air anti ice for the full leading edge:


P-8A Poseidon 167952 by Mark Carlisle, on Flickr

I stand corrected, thanks (every day is a school day).

[Meester proach]

Nice looking 73.
shame non are going to be based at St Mawgan like the old days, there would be no shortage of takers

[Asturias56]

Given the frosty meetings between Boris and The Sturgeon and Ruth Davidson yesterday they may be in Cornwall sooner rather than later..............

[alwayslookingup]

Originally Posted by Asturias56

Given the frosty meetings between Boris and The Sturgeon and Ruth Davidson yesterday they may be in Cornwall sooner rather than later..............

Doubt it. Given the level of investment at Lossie I think BoJo will be gone long before St Mawgan is resurrected.

[Asturias56]

The RAF may not have an option if Scotland goes independent........................

[weemonkey]

Originally Posted by Asturias56

The RAF may not have an option if Scotland goes independent........................

And did you know more people in Scotland voted LEAVE than for the SNP?

No?

OK.

[Asturias56]

That was pre Boris - I understand the good people of Scotland (including Ms Davidson) don't like him... can't understand why -

[weemonkey]

Originally Posted by Lyneham Lad

Same methodology as Blue Steel Victors...

I doubt it. That would require foresight, imagination, and naturally, extra infrastructure investment in drainage, water treatment/isolators.

[melmothtw]

And did you know more people in Scotland voted LEAVE than for the SNP?

Also true that more people in Scotland voted INDEPENDENCE than for the SNP.

[Davef68]

Originally Posted by weemonkey

And did you know more people in Scotland voted LEAVE than for the SNP?

No?

OK.

And yet voted Remain overall

[weemonkey]

Originally Posted by Asturias56

That was pre Boris - I understand the good people of Scotland (including Ms Davidson) don't like him... can't understand why -

Davidson is a defender of the Union.







The European Union.


Aaaanyway, b on t, is it an option for any other 737 types to have bleed air derived LE anti ice ??

[woptb]

Looks like the engine is a 7BE,last iteration of the CFM56, before the LEAP. I would guess the engine fan cowl bulge is for additional generator blast cooling ,rather than to accommodate a ‘physically’ larger IDG?

[tdracer]

Originally Posted by woptb

Looks like the engine is a 7BE,last iteration of the CFM56, before the LEAP. I would guess the engine fan cowl bulge is for additional generator blast cooling ,rather than to accommodate a ‘physically’ larger IDG?

IIRC, they added a second IDG - not a larger IDG - and the bulge is for the second IDG.

[woptb]

Different to the USN Poseidon then? They have 2 times 180kva IDG/generators,a huge cost,if true!

[RAFEngO74to09]

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[sandiego89]

Sorry if already mentioned, but it sounds like the P-8's radar could be quite handy for overland tracking, if say you find your MPA operating over some sandbox for example, never happen would it?

Like a mini- JSTARS. "It is said the sensor is so sensitive that it can even pick up a formation of people moving over open terrain," Tyler Rogoway in 2014 wrote about the APS-149. "Also, the speed of the system's double-sided [electronically-scanned] array allows for multi-mode operations at one time with near-360-degree coverage, meaning that scanning, mapping, tracking and classifying targets can all happen near simultaneously, resulting in massive amounts of data for multiple platforms and decision makers around the theater and beyond to exploit"

https://nationalinterest.org/blog/bu...-targets-51537