How Lockheed’s P-3 kept the Cold War from turning hot. Submarines are hard to kill. For military strategists, no warship ...

The Lockheed P-3 Orion first flew in 1959, and it has been out of production since 1990. Yet the four-engine, turboprop anti-submarine aircraft is still in service today with the U.S., China ...

What emerged was Lockheed’s P-3 Orion, a patrol airplane derived from ... Point in the Philippines to resume patrols over the South China Sea. That’s when we became involved in the Mayaguez ...