How Lockheed’s P-3 kept the Cold War from turning hot. Robert Bernier A P-3C Orion assigned to VP-46 commands the ramp at Washington’s Naval Air Station Whidbey Island, in 2017. U.S. Navy/ Petty ...

Maintaining and upgrading the U.S. Navy's P-3 Orion maritime surveillance fleet for service into the next decade are being funded from several recent Department of Defense contracts, via Navair at ...

The Navy bid a final farewell to the P-3C Orion aircraft, which took its final flight from NAS Jax Friday afternoon. The Orion has been in service in the United States Navy for more than 60 years, ...

Summary: The Lockheed P-3 Orion, a turboprop anti-submarine and maritime surveillance aircraft, has been a staple in aerial fleets worldwide since its first flight in 1959. Developed from the Lockheed ...

The unexpected appearance of a U.S. Navy P-3 Orion surveillance aircraft over Yemen’s capital of Sana’a starting Aug. 6 has focused new attention on the covert war against al-Qaeda in the Arabian ...

Lockheed Martin has delivered its second of seven refurbished P-3C maritime patrol and surveillance aircraft to the Pakistan navy. Handed over at the US Navy's NAS Jacksonville site in Florida on 7 ...

ABOARD A NAVY PLANE OVER THE STRAIT OF HORMUZ -- As the Bush administration considers a military strike against Iraq, the U.S. and its coalition partners have stepped up pressure on Saddam Hussein’s ...

All four crew members aboard a South Korean navy plane have been killed after the aircraft crashed in the southeastern coastal city of Pohang, the navy has said. The P-3C Orion turboprop plane which ...

“The Navy didn’t anticipate Soviets subs fighting it out while surfaced, so we lacked armor or self-sealing fuel tanks in the wings.” Retired Captain Tim Verhoef did two tours in Vietnam as a P-3 ...