Lockheed P2V-7 Neptune / VP-1VP 1 Lockheed P 2 Neptune airplane model. The first prototype of this long range maritime patrol aircraft was flown on May 17, 1945, and P2V 1s began to enter service in March 1947 and proved effective in their role. One airplane named "The Turtle" set a world piston engine distance record in 1946. The Korean War expanded the requirement for such aircraft, and the later involvement of the United States in Southeast Asia, plus need to provide similar

" Originally designated the F-102B

which was completed at the Sudomekh shipyard in Leningrad in 1972

and the decision to develop a stretched version (10 ft

the Packard Motor Company of the U

Prior to the Second World War

an elegant

Luftwaffe - Air Force

It could carry mines

The aircraft uses the Northrop Grumman Electronic Systems Multi-Role Electronically Scanned Array (MESA) radar

sliding canopy of the prototype

Boeing installed very advanced armament

In later wars