Boeing P-8 Poseidon

The Boeing P-8 Poseidon is an American maritime patrol and reconnaissance aircraft developed for the United States Navy as a derivative of the Boeing 737 Next Generation airliner. It is built for anti-submarine warfare, anti-surface warfare and intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance, carrying torpedoes, Harpoon anti-ship missiles and sonobuoys, and it works alongside the MQ-4C Triton surveillance drone. It replaced the turboprop Lockheed P-3 Orion. The first flight was on 25 April 2009, and besides the Navy it is flown by India, Australia, the United Kingdom, South Korea, Norway, New Zealand and Germany, with further orders from Singapore, Canada and Denmark.