"L'acrobat" wrote in message
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The AP-3C Orions are due to retire around 2025, you would expect
Global Hawk
(or follow ons) to start supplimenting them by around 2015/2020 if
they were
to replace them by 2025

I'll be interested to see what is going to replace the P3's. More P3's
or will they look at
Nimrod again? Getting the TAP3's to keep the hours down on the
operational fleet seems
to have been a very good idea.

The CO