Boeing flies new radar on P-8A that will replace the APS-149 LSRS

NAVAIR announced that a P-8A equipped with the new APS-154 Advanced Airborne Sensor (AAS) radar has made its first flight on May 20.

P-3C Orion with APS-149 LSRS at Andersen AFB 2010
By U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class Jeffrey Schultze [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons

The APS-154 AAS radar will replace the APS-149 Littoral Surveillance Radar System (LSRS) carried on specially modified P-3C Orion aircraft.

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