Torpedo first for RAF's new sub-hunter

摘要

In late July, a Royal Air Force Boeing P-8 Poseidon MRA1 released a torpedo for the first time - just 16 months after gaining Initial Operating Capability. The recoverable exercise variant (REXTORP) Mark 54 Lightweight Torpedo was dropped from 120 Squadron's Poseidon over the Moray Firth - close to the fleet's home base of RAF Lossiemouth in Moray, Scotland -during a simulated attack on a submarine. The sortie's rational was to prove that the RAF's Poseidon fleet can complete the end-to-end process of tasking and launching a torpedo.