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soultrain escreveu:Spain Curtails P-3 Upgrade

Jun 30, 2010


By Robert Wall

LONDON — The Spanish air force is reducing its P-3 upgrade program to four aircraft, having previously planned to install the EADS CASA Fully Integrated Tactical System (FITS) on five of the maritime patrol aircraft.

The decision was largely budget driven, with the fifth aircraft now expected to serve mainly as a spare parts repository to keep the four FITS-equipped Lockheed-built P-3Bs flying, a senior air force official says. The last of the four P-3Bs receiving the FITS mission system is to be delivered this year. Spain also operates CASA CN-235s with FITS.

Spain hopes to fly its upgraded P-3Bs until past 2020 and to reach that point, also has been pursuing structural work. The air force’s two P-3As will not be upgraded, but are expected to last until 2020. What comes next has yet to be determined, the official says, but the air force is not convinced a turbofan-powered approach, as offered by Boeing with the P-8A, is the right approach.

Meanwhile, service officials are anxious to get their hands on a medium-altitude long-endurance (MALE) unmanned aircraft to augment their manned surveillance aircraft, in particular for anti-piracy missions off Somalia. But Spanish MALE UAV plans are frozen as the government awaits the outcome of a trinational study into the EADS-proposed Advanced UAV. Once that process is complete, the Spanish officer says he hopes the defense ministry will quickly approve purchase of an off-the-shelf system. The Israel Aerospace Industries Heron-1 is the front runner, but would serve in an interim capability even if the government opts for the twinjet EADS Talarion.

henriquejr escreveu:

cb_lima escreveu:Eu já acho que tem muita coisa que pode ser feita em "conjunto", inclusive a parte de aviação de transporte... ter uma logística única por exemplo, mesmo que existam aeronaves de transporte do EB/MB... o mesmo vale para treinamento e outras atividades.

Enfim, vamos ver no que a história dos P-3 vai dar pois acho que seria uma excelente oportunidade para op. com tripulações conjuntas
Mas esse sou eu

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CB_Lima

Pensei da mesma forma. Os P-3 mantidos e operados pela FAB mas com tripulação da MB, interagindo diretamente com os meios navais. Algo como o convenio do uso de Bandeirantes da FAB pelo EB (acho que era o Esquedrão Onça).

Santiago escreveu:Uma alternativa mais radical seria a unificação das 3 forças. Elas passariam a ser comandos das Forças Armadas Brasileiras, a exemplo do que ocorre com o Canadá, Israel, África do Sul, Austrália, China, etc. Acabariam-se muitos "pobremas"...

Jacobs escreveu:CADE O FLIIIIIIIIIIIRRRRRRRRRR ????