R. David Steele wrote:
Look at ACS David, it is replacing both guardrail and the ARL for the
Army, and the EP-3 for the Navy.

Do you mean the Common Support Aircraft (CSA)?

No, this is a ground-based aircraft, not a carrier plane like CSA.


This is a nice platform that should replace the C-2, C-12, and
S-3. Has it been announced who will make it?
http://www.globalsecurity.org/milita...rcraft/csa.htm

CSA is dead (yor several years). They may not have formally terminated it,
but there's no movement on it, and it does not appear in the Navy's future
aircraft procurement plans.

Also The KC-X or KC-767 program makes sense. Likewise use the
767 (E-767) to replace the E-3 AWACS. There was talk of having a
P-7 which would be based on the 737 (which is being made into a
cheaper AWACS the E-737.

P-7 was actually a P-3 development, not a 737. It was shelved sometime in
the 1990s.

The Navy is now looking at a program called the MAritime Multi-Mission
Aircraft. A 737 deriviative is a candidate for that, competing against a
modernized P-3.

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