Military airliner derivatives and the risk of confusion

From page 30 of this issue, we take a closer look at Boeing’s P-8 Poseidon, the US Navy’s and likely the RAAF’s successor to the P-3 Orion.

The P-8 is one of three and potentially more military versions of Boeing’s venerable 737 airliner, of which more than 8000 have been sold or ordered since it entered service in the mid 1960s.