P-8 Poseidon sub hunting in the Med

I'm curious, do you think it's an Orion or a Poseidon?

 

Ooops... fixed it!

 

Here, kitty kitty... https://globe.adsbexchange.com/?icao=ae688b&lat=52.072&lon=2.902&zoom=6.2&showTrace=2022-03-09

 

Nice. Looking at the same track, must be an ASW platform, right? P3 or P8

Much too fast to be a p3

 

P8. It's a very capable platform. There was talk of weaponizing it too but I don't know how far down that path they've gone.

 

it has been weapons capable since its design.

It has wing hardpoints and a belly weapons bay.


Armament

• Hardpoints: 11 total
• internal bay with 5 hardpoints and 6 external hardpoints for a variety of conventional weapons, e.g. AGM-84H/K SLAM-ER, AGM-84 Harpoon, Mark 54 torpedo, mines, depth charges, and the High Altitude Anti-Submarine Warfare Weapon Capability (HAAWC) system