P-8 named
 

PATUXENT RIVER, Md. - The Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR) today announced that the P-8A multi-mission maritime aircraft has been assigned its popular name. It will now be known as P-8A Poseidon.

That was announced on Tuesday. However the US Navy guys have already dubbed this Boeing 737 replacement for the P-3 as the PerDiem after the daily rates payed on deployments.:)

Didn't the Posiedon (of film fame) sink, killing most on board? :hmm: :uhoh: :D

Yes, but they did put it in the water on purpose!

CG

Posiedon. Thought that was a Telly Tubby you could only see from in front or behind ....... I know, I havn't a clue ...:\

So, we are replacing "Orion" [mighty hunter of Greek & Roman mythology] with: "Posiedon" [Greek god of the sea].

But we have already used this one... sort of: "Neptune" [the Roman version of Poseidon] was the Lockheed P-2... the predecessor to the Lockheed P-3 Orion.

Oh well, lack of imagination abounds.

GK121 - I guess what goes around comes around. My ex UAS instructor was a Nimrod driver who once told me that he got no end of stick from US crews in Gulf 1 when he said that he flew a Nimrod. Cue sniggering at the back of daily briefings etc etc etc

So to find out that you have decided to call your new steed Poseidon will no doubt amuse him greatly. Especially when, if my Greek mythology is correct after all these years, Posiedon was a bit of a naughty boy who was thought to have raped Aethra thus fathering the famed Theseus. And if that wasn't bad enough, he was also one of the caretakers of the Oracle at Delphi.

So, we called our sub hunter Nimrod after a biblical hunter of renown and had the p1ss taken out of us. At least we didn't name it after a janitor with a rape conviction :E :E :E Sorry, very childish I know, but it's been a long week and I couldn't resist :ok:

Fair's fair! :E

Of course, Nimrod is the Sumerian/old Hebrew counterpart to the Greek Orion... :hmm:


As I am sure you were informed, but for the elucidation of others here... in the US, "Nimrod" is a derogatory term for someone of much less than stellar intelligence, who regularly takes actions even he should know are stupid... but which he can't help doing anyway.

Wiki-waki: "A nimrod may refer to a silly or foolish person. This usage most likely originated with the classic cartoon character Bugs Bunny, who referred to Elmer Fudd as a "poor little Nimrod." While this was most likely meant to refer to the biblical character of Nimrod, described as "a mighty hunter," the word came to connote one who was easily confounded."

Ah so thats why the AEW version flopped, it was confused and confounded!