FighterControl

Hi Folks,

Here is the arrival series of the P-8A 169554 LK-554 VP-26 Trident 92 from LIRN - NAS Sigonella with the AN/APS-154 AAS - Advanced Airborne Sensor attached -- you should rather call it radar... the part is the further development of the highly secret AN/APS-149 LSRS Littoral Surveillance Radar System that could multifunctionally track and classify various moving targets... and at sea and over land by a small number of P-3C Orions used was better known later as EP-3E! ... the AN/APS-149 had a double AESA radar which enabled almost 360° coverage, scanning, mapping, tracking and classifying targets at the same time---the AN-APS 154 AAS is based on this technology and also got an MTI - Moving Target Indicator installed that can track targets on the water and on the ground at the same time... but the part can do everything that the AN/APY-7 that was mounted under the E-8C J-STARS could do worlds better... I wonder why the Air Force never wanted this pod for themselves…. a KC-46 equipped with it…. would have been the ideal E-8C successor... this P-8A flew two Local Missions from Ramstein AB the last week and departed today back to NAS Sigonella ...

greetings Dalibor

nice set especially #2 and 3

matt e wrote: ↑

Sat Jan 25, 2025 6:38 pm

nice set especially #2 and 3

thanks ,I always train zoom in / out shots ...

Nice plane. What does it say on the nose wheel door?

Great pictures of an unusual and seldom seen set up on the P-8.

The EP-3E never carried the LSRS pod, that was confined to some P-3C’s.

sdad wrote: ↑

Sat Jan 25, 2025 9:37 pm

Nice plane. What does it say on the nose wheel door?

Morning Thunder,

if you klick onto the picture it will pop up bigger and more clear ,then its readable ...

cheers

Dalibor

Thunder wrote: ↑

Sun Jan 26, 2025 12:14 am

Great pictures of an unusual and seldom seen set up on the P-8.

The EP-3E never carried the LSRS pod, that was confined to some P-3C’s.

hmm maybe I missunderstand it,thanks will read into it... I thought the P-3Cs with the LSRS Pod got renamed ...

cheers Dalibor

Just seen this and Thunder is correct Dalibor... The only Orions with the LSRS were P-3Cs... Nice pics of the P-8 though.