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Kawasaki P-3C / EP-3 / OP-3C / UP-3C / UP-3D
Maritime Patrol Aircraft - MPA
 

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10/23
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P-3C
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5011 / 5012 / 5013 / 5014 / 5015 / 5016 / 5017 / 5018 / 5019 / 5020
5021 / 5022 / 5023 / 5024 / 5025 / 5026 / 5027 / 5028 / 5029 / 5030
5031 / 5032 / 5033 / 5034 / 5035 / 5036 / 5037 / 5038 / 5039 / 5040
5041 / 5042 / 5043 / 5044 / 5045 / 5046 / 5047 / 5048 / 5049 / 5050
5051 / 5052 / 5053 / 5054 / 5055 / 5056 / 5057 / 5058 / 5059 / 5060
5061 / 5062 / 5063 / 5064 / 5065 / 5066 / 5067 / 5068 / 5069 / 5070
5071 / 5072 / 5073 / 5074 / 5075 / 5076 / 5077 / 5078 / 5079 / 5080
5081 / 5082 / 5083 / 5084 / 5085 / 5086 / 5087 / 5088 / 5089 / 5090
5091 / 5092 / 5093 / 5094 / 5095 / 5096 / 5097 / 5098 / 5099 / 5100
5101
 
EP-3 (ELINT aircraft)
9171 / 9172 / 9173 / 9174 / 9175
 
OP-3C (reconnaissance aircraft)
9131 / 9132 / 9133 / 9134 / 9135
 
UP-3C (equipment testing aircraft)
9151
 
UP-3D (ELINT training aircraft)
9161 / 9162 / 9163
 
 
P-3 Squadrons:
Air Patrol Squadron 1 (Kanoya Air Field / P-3C)
Air Patrol Squadron 2 (Hachinohe Air Base / P-3C)
Air Patrol Squadron 3 (Atsugi Air Base / P-3C)
Air Patrol Squadron 5 (Naha Air Base / P-3C)
Air Development Squadron 51 (Atsugi Air Base / all variants)
Air Reconnaissance Squadron 81 (Iwakuni Air Base / EP-3, OP-3C)
Air Training Support Squadron 91 (Iwakuni Air Base / UP-3D)
203 Air Training Squadron (Shimofusa Air Base / P-3C)
  
 
 
The Lockheed P-3 Orion is a four-engined, turboprop anti-submarine and maritime surveillance aircraft developed for the United States Navy and introduced in the 1960s. Lockheed based it on the L-188 Electra commercial airliner; it is easily distinguished from the Electra by its distinctive tail stinger or "MAD" boom, used for the magnetic anomaly detection (MAD) of submarines.

Over the years, the P-3 has seen numerous design developments, most notably in its electronics packages. Numerous navies and air forces around the world continue to use the type primarily for maritime patrol, reconnaissance, anti-surface warfare and anti-submarine warfare. A total of 757 P-3s have been built.

The P-3 has an internal bomb bay under the front fuselage, which can house conventional Mark 50 torpedoes or Mark 46 torpedoes and/or special (nuclear) weapons. Additional underwing stations, or pylons, can carry other armament configurations, including the AGM-84 Harpoon, AGM-84E SLAM, AGM-84H/K SLAM-ER, AGM-65 Maverick, 127 millimetres (5.0 in) Zuni rockets, and various other sea mines, missiles, and gravity bombs. The aircraft also had the capability to carry the AGM-12 Bullpup guided missile until that weapon was withdrawn from U.S./NATO/Allied service.

The P-3 is equipped with a magnetic anomaly detection (MAD) in the extended tail. This instrument is able to detect the magnetic anomaly of a submarine in the Earth's magnetic field. The limited range of this instrument requires the aircraft to be near the submarine at low altitude. Because of this, it is primarily used for pinpointing the location of a submarine immediately prior to a torpedo or depth bomb attack. Due to the sensitivity of the detector, electromagnetic noise can interfere with it, so the detector is placed in P-3's fiberglass tail stinger (MAD boom), far from other electronics and ferrous metals on the aircraft.

Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force:
93 P-3C, five EP-3, five OP-3C, one UP-3C, three UP-3D.
The Kawasaki Aerospace Company assembled five airframes produced by Lockheed, and then Kawasaki produced more than 100 P-3s under license in Japan. The Kawasaki P-1 is gradually replacing them. As of March 2022, the JMSDF operated 40 P-3Cs.

Variants:
P-3C: main production version
EP-3: ELINT aircraft for the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force
OP-3C: P-3Cs converted to reconnaissance aircraft for the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force
UP-3C: equipment testing aircraft for the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force
UP-3D: ELINT training aircraft for the Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force


Specifications (P-3C - US Navy):
Crew: 11 (including pilots)
Length: 116 ft 10 in (35.61 m)
Wingspan: 99 ft 8 in (30.38 m)
Height: 33 ft 8.5 in (10.274 m)
Wing area: 1,300.0 sq ft (120.77 m2)
Empty weight: 61,491 lb (27,892 kg)
Zero-fuel weight: 77,200 lb (35,017 kg)
Max takeoff weight: 135,000 lb (61,235 kg) MTOW normal / 142,000 lb (64,410 kg) maximum permissible
Maximum landing weight: (MLW) 103,880 lb (47,119 kg)
Fuel capacity: 9,200 US gal (7,700 imp gal; 35,000 L) usable fuel in 5 wing and fuselage tanks ; (62,500 lb (28,350 kg) maximum fuel weight) ; 111 US gal (92 imp gal; 420 L) usable oil in 4 tanks
Powerplant: 4 x Allison T56-A-14 turboprop engines, 4,910 shp (3,660 kW) each (equivalent)
Propellers: 4-bladed Hamilton Standard 54H60-77, 13 ft 6 in (4.11 m) diameter constant-speed fully-feathering reversible propellers
Maximum speed: 411 kn (473 mph, 761 km/h) at 15,000 ft (4,572 m) and 105,000 lb (47,627 kg)
Cruise speed: 328 kn (377 mph, 607 km/h) at 25,000 ft (7,620 m) and 110,000 lb (49,895 kg)
Patrol speed: 206 kn (237 mph; 382 km/h) at 1,500 ft (457 m) and 110,000 lb (49,895 kg)
Stall speed: 133 kn (153 mph, 246 km/h) flaps up / 112 kn (129 mph; 207 km/h) flaps down
Combat range: 1,345 nmi (1,548 mi, 2,491 km) (3 hours on station at 1,500 ft (457 m))
Ferry range: 4,830 nmi (5,560 mi, 8,950 km)
Endurance: 17 hours 12 minutes at 15,000 ft (4,572 m) on two engines / 12 hours 20 minutes at 15,000 ft (4,572 m) on four engines
Service ceiling: 28,300 ft (8,600 m) / 19,000 ft (5,791 m) one engine inoperative (OEI)
Rate of climb: 1,950 ft/min (9.9 m/s)
Time to altitude: 25,000 ft (7,620 m) in 30 minutes
Take-off run: 4,240 ft (1,292 m)
Take-off distance to 50 ft (15 m): 5,490 ft (1,673 m)
Landing distance from 50 ft (15 m): 2,770 ft (844 m)


Armament:
 
Hardpoints:
10 wing stations in total (3x on each wing and 2x on each wing root) and eight internal bomb bay stations with a capacity of 20,000 lb (9,100 kg), with provisions to carry combinations of:
 
Missiles:
AGM-65 Maverick
AGM-84 Harpoon
AGM-84 Standoff Land Attack Missile (SLAM-ER)
 
Bombs:
Depth charges
Mk.20 Rockeye / Mk.82, Mk.83, Mk.84 general-purpose bombs
Mk.46, Mk.50, Mk.54 or MU90 Impact torpedoes
various naval mines
active and passive sonobuoys

Systems:
RADAR: Raytheon AN/APS-115 Maritime Surveillance Radar, AN/APS-137D(V)5 Inverse Synthetic Aperture Search Radar
IFF: APX-72, APX-76, APX-118/123 Interrogation Friend or Foe (IFF)
EO/IR: ASX-4 Advanced Imaging Multispectral Sensor (AIMS), ASX-6 Multi-Mode Imaging System (MMIS)
ESM: ALR-66 Radar Warning Receiver, ALR-95(V)2 Specific Emitter Identification/Threat Warning
Hazeltine Corporation AN/ARR-78(V) sonobuoy receiving system
Fighting Electronics Inc AN/ARR-72 sonobuoy receiver
IBM Proteus UYS-1 acoustic processor
AQA-7 directional acoustic frequency analysis and recording sonobuoy indicators
AQH-4 (V) sonar tape recorder
ASQ-81 magnetic anomaly detector (MAD)
ASA-65 magnetic compensator
Lockheed Martin AN/ALQ-78(V) electronic surveillance receiver

source: wikipedia+
 
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