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North European and North Atlantic Defense: The Challenges Return

All military technology is relative to a reactive enemy.

As Ed Timperlake has noted “It is about the arsenal of democracy shifting from an industrial production line to
a clean room and a computer lab as key shapers of competitive advantage.”

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8triton-dyad/

And from the ground up, the US Navy is doing this with the Brits, the Australians, and soon the Norwegians will
join into the effort.

FIGURE 17THE ROYAL AUSTRALIAN AIR FORCE’S FIRST P-8A POSEIDON, A47-001 FLY’S IN FORMATION WITH A CURRENT AP-3C ORION OVER
THEIR HOME BASE OF RAAF BASE EDINBURGH IN SOUTH AUSTRALIA.CREDIT: AUSTRALIAN DEPARTMENT OF DEFENCE

Much like the F-35 pilots and maintainers for allies are being trained initially in the United States and then
standing up national capabilities, the same is happening with the P-8/Triton allies whereby the Brits and
Australians are training at Jax Navy and this will most certainly happen with the Norwegians as well.

In fact, recently an RAF pilot has gone beyond 1,000 flight hours on the P-8 at Jax Navy.

And the allies are doing training for the entire P-8 force as well.

The Australians are buying the P-8 and the Triton and the Brits and Norwegians the P-8s but will work with the
US Navy as it operates its Tritons in the North Atlantic area of interests.

These allies are working key geographical territory essential to both themselves and the United States, so
shared domain knowledge and operational experience in the South Pacific and the North Atlantic is of
obvious significance for warfighting and deterrence.

And given the relatively small size of the allied forces, they will push the multi-mission capabilities of
the aircraft even further than the United States will do and as they do so the U.S. can take those lessons
as well.

There is already a case in point.

The Australians as a cooperative partner wanted the P-8 modified to do search and rescue something that the
US Navy did not build into its P-8s. But now that capability comes with the aircraft, something that was very
much a requirement for the Norwegians as well.

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