The P-8 Poseidon is being delayed for ridiculous reasons: the downfall of aviation giant Boeing!!!

If you are interested in military news, you would already know that the ‘Submarine Killer’ P-8 Poseidon, made by Boeing, is set to be introduced from 2023. Since North Korea launched a new ‘Tactical Nuclear Attack Submarine’ on September 6, 2023, there have been constant calls for strengthening anti-submarine patrol aircraft capabilities. Our military, concerned about North Korea’s submarine-launched ballistic missile capabilities, invested a huge amount of 1.9 trillion won in 2018 to sign a contract to introduce six P-8 Poseidons from Boeing.

If you visited the outdoor exhibition of the Seoul International Aerospace and Defense Exhibition ADEX, you would have seen the familiar shape of the B-737 aircraft with spikes protruding from its back. That aircraft is the P-8 Poseidon. The problem is that you could clearly see the words ‘US Navy’ along with the squadron mark on the P-8 Poseidon that could be seen at the ADEX 2023 outdoor exhibition.

It is clear that six P-8 Poseidons should be introduced sequentially from 2023, and there are only about two months left until 2024. So, the P-8 Poseidon that should have been on display at ADEX 2023 should have been owned by the Republic of Korea Navy, not the US Navy. I heard the whole story from industry insiders and discussed it with aircraft modification experts. The aircraft modification expert diagnosed that the moral decay of Boeing, a giant company, appears to be serious.

The expert, who has a lot of experience in modifying large transport aircraft and civilian passenger aircraft into military aircraft, analyzed what the problem with Boeing was, citing the case of the Boeing 737 Max crashing twice, causing hundreds of casualties. If you watch the documentary “Downfall: The Case Against Boeing” produced by Netflix, it will be a great help in understanding the contents pointed out by the expert.

First, an industry insider explained that there was a hint from the US government that “There is a problem with the P-8 Poseidon that we cannot identify, and we are checking it. It looks like it can be delivered next year at the earliest.” Although it is possible to deliver it right now, they said that they cannot be responsible for any problems that occur in the future.

The aircraft modification expert who heard this story pointed out that “If an unidentified problem occurs in the P-8 Poseidon, which was operationalized in 2009, and 14 years have passed since then, this is a very serious problem.”

Currently, the P-8 Poseidon is being deployed in the United States, India, New Zealand, Australia, and the British Air Force. If there were problems with the amount already delivered, it is likely that it would have been externally known, but no such content was found even after searching foreign media. Moreover, the first P-8 Poseidon of the Republic of Korea Navy, which was painted and came out of the Boeing factory in the United States on February 3, 2022, was captured on video, and it was reported that the first aircraft would be introduced in 2022.

https://youtu.be/rV9pwturK94

Despite this, the fact that the introduction of the first P-8 Poseidon of the Republic of Korea Navy has been delayed to 2024 without a clear explanation leads to the inference that there is a high possibility that problems have occurred in the P-8 Poseidon aircraft being delivered recently. The aircraft modification expert added that it is difficult to understand how to accept Boeing’s statement that a “error that makes delivery within the deadline difficult” has occurred now, despite having 14 years to find and correct errors after operational deployment.