A US Navy (USN) P-3C Orion, Patrol Squadron One 6 (VP-16), War Eagles, Jacksonville, Florida, flies by during a check flight. VP-16 is currently on a six-month deployment to the Mediterranean theater in support of Operation ENDURING FREEDOM. The P-3C is a multi-mission aircraft providing Anti-Submarine Warfare (ASW) and Anti-Surface Warfare (ASUW) capabilities. With a wide range of communications, detection, monitoring, reconnaissance and navigation systems the P-3C can also deliver an impressive mix of torpedoes, bombs, and missiles along with pinpoint mine-laying capabilities
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Subject Operation/Series: ENDURING FREEDOM
Base: Souda Harbor
State: Crete
Country: Greece (GRC)
Scene Camera Operator: Paul Farley, USN, CIV
Release Status: Released to Public
Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files
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Date
01/11/2002
Source
The U.S. National Archives
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