VP-16 deployment to Japan affirm decision to drop MAD

Rear Admiral Cindy Jaynes told IHS Jane’s that the recent deployment by VP-16 to Kadena Air Base in Japan had validated the Navy’s decision not to install a magnetic anomaly detector (MAD) on the P-8A.

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