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FIDAE 2016: South Korea to pave way for further S-3 Viking sales | IHS Jane’s 360

Lockheed Martin expects that the procurement of its S-3 Viking maritime patrol and anti-submarine warfare (ASW) aircraft by South Korea will pave the way for further sales of the type to at least three other operators, a company official told IHS Jane's on 30 March. Speaking at the FIDAE Airshow in Santiago, Clay Fearnow, Lockheed…

Lockheed Martin expects that the procurement of its S-3 Viking maritime patrol and anti-submarine warfare (ASW) aircraft by South Korea will pave the way for further sales of the type to at least three other operators, a company official told IHS Jane's on 30 March.

Speaking at the FIDAE Airshow in Santiago, Clay Fearnow, Lockheed Martin's director of maritime patrol programmes, said that the approval that is anticipated in the coming months of the sale to the Republic of Korea Navy (RoKN) could open the way for further sales to two other Asian nations (one of which he identified as the Socialist Republic of Vietnam), and one South American nation.

"We are talking to three other countries [besides South Korea] with regard to the S-3. If the South Korean programme is approved, then we expect the aircraft to really take off," Fearnow said, adding that interested nations are waiting on the South Korean deal to be finalised before committing.

via www.janes.com

South Korea, Vietnam, maybe a couple other nations.

You know who maybe ought to look at using the S-3B in the ASW role?

The United States Navy.

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  1. LT Rusty

    Yeah, you know, I wonder if we could maybe convince big blue to buy a few of those … Of course, they’ll probably just try and find a way to make a Hornet do it instead.

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  2. Tennessee Budd

    Hey, the S-3B just might function in that role, with a few modifi–wait, I was there when they did it. I worked on them. Oops.

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  3. SCOTTtheBADGER

    I bet they could even use them off of carriers!

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  4. Shannon

    Hm. I had to actually look the S-3B up. Something about it just looks so familiar, but I can’t put my finger on it. It’s almost like maybe I’d spent days and weeks of my life conning the plane guard and seeing them fly over my masthead toward the CVN on final.
    But no, that couldn’t be real, could it? An almost ideal carrier-based ASW / ASuW platform that’s not Hornet-based? Something like that couldn’t have ever existed, not in reality, could it? It’s like the green flash – just a figment of the imagination. It must be. There’s no way that we could have ever had and then given up a capability like the S-3 seems to offer. That would just be stupid. That’d be like building a modular surface combatant with no modules, or a surface combatant with a balsa wood superstructure. It just couldn’t happen in a fleet run by reasonable, intelligent people!
    Oh, wait…

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