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The Sea Sultan long-range maritime patrol aircraft (LRMPA) is an important project for the Pakistan Navy (PN), not only as a successor to the Lockheed Martin P-3B/C Orion, its current mainstay anti-submarine warfare (ASW) and anti-ship warfare (AShW) aircraft, but as a key solutions enabler.
How so?
Well, at every level, the Sea Sultan LRMPA leverages commercially off-the-shelf (or COTS) technology to (1) control cost, (2) ensure upgradability, and – perhaps most importantly – (3) guarantee future procurement availability.
In this process, Pakistan is not manufacturing any of the critical inputs or aircraft, so the Sea Sultan is not an ‘indigenous’ program per se. However, by both finding and integrating preexisting platforms and subsystems, the PN is learning the process of developing an original solution that it could manage and evolve with far greater autonomy compared to buying a stock solution from a vendor.
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Moreover, the PN is sourcing the base platform from the second-hand airliner market, which is not as restricted as directly buying a controlled military design from an OEM. It is also cheaper from a cost standpoint.
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