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US Navy To Greatly Expand P-8 Poseidon's Mission With New Missiles, Mines, Bombs, And Decoys The U.S. Navy says that it is interested in dramatically expanding the arsenal of weapons that its P-8A Poseidon maritime patrol aircraft are capable of carrying. The service says that it wants to start...

Boeing announces delivery of first P-8A Poseidon to Royal Air Force https://defence-blog.com/news/boeing-announces-delivery-of-first-p-8a-poseidon-to-royal-air-force.html

Aside from antisub aircraft India needs underwater submarine detection system like SOSUS.

EXCLUSIVE: An inside look at US Navy's P-8A

U.S. Navy Reveals Unique New Feature Of P-8A Radar https://aviationweek.com/defense/us-navy-reveals-unique-new-feature-p-8a-radar

There are maritime surveilance missions that manned aircrafts are best suited for and there are those that drones can handle (usually with routinary preprogrammed flight paths).

The Poseidon is set to gain a new anti-submarine weapon:

US Navy Moves Forward On Advanced Airborne Radar By Bill Sweetman Bill Sweetman/Aviation Week & Space Technology June 18, 2012 A full-scale development program is underway to develop a version of the U. S. Navy's Boeing P-8A Poseidon maritime patrol aircraft (MPA), fitted with a...