Wednesday, November 10, 2010

US Navy overcomes mass P-3C grounding scare

The US Navy has quietly overcome a grounding scare that programme officials now acknowledge brought the Lockheed Martin P-3C Orion fleet "to its knees" only 12 months ago. Inspections in 2009 had revealed structural damage that led to the grounding of all but 49 of 120 combat-coded Orions by September.

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