{"id":557993,"date":"2025-11-08T21:06:12","date_gmt":"2025-11-08T21:06:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/557993\/"},"modified":"2025-11-08T21:06:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-08T21:06:12","slug":"germany-mulls-expanding-order-for-submarine-hunting-planes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/557993\/","title":{"rendered":"Germany Mulls Expanding Order For Submarine-Hunting Planes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By\u00a0Michael Nienaber<\/p>\n<p>Nov 7, 2025 (Bloomberg) \u2013Germany may buy four additional Boeing Co. P-8A Poseidon submarine-hunting planes, according to people familiar with the matter, as the first of eight already purchased landed in Berlin amid growing security threats from Russia.<\/p>\n<p>If approved, the request from the Luftwaffe would make Germany one of the world\u2019s largest operators of the plane outside the US. The people declined to be named because the matter is sensitive.<\/p>\n<p>After the twin-engine jet touched down on Friday on the military side of Berlin\u2019s airport, Defense Minister Boris Pistorius inspected the aircraft and discussed its capabilities with the crew. He told reporters \u201cat least\u201d seven more Poseidons would follow.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/443820051-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-237974\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>He said the new aircraft would be stationed at the Nordholz airbase in northern Germany, and operate from NATO bases in Great Britain, Norway and Iceland as it patrols the Baltic Sea, North Sea and northern Atlantic.<\/p>\n<p>Germany will pay more than \u20ac3 billion ($3.47 billion) for the eight P-8As on order.<\/p>\n<p>The maritime patrol and surveillance aircraft is used by the US Navy and other members of the NATO military alliance. It is a militarized version of the Boeing 737 aircraft and is meant to replace Germany\u2019s aging fleet of P-3 Orion planes.<\/p>\n<p>The aircraft is capable of detecting and hunting submarines with the help of air-dropped sonar buoys. The German version will be equipped with torpedoes, naval mines and anti-ship missiles. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Chancellor Friedrich Merz\u2019s ruling coalition has effectively removed borrowing constraints for defense spending, and the conservative leader has pledged to transform the Bundeswehr into Europe\u2019s largest conventional army to deal with the increasing threats from Russia.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a9\u00a02025\u00a0Bloomberg L.P.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/gcaptain.com\/wp-content\/themes\/gCaptain-Theme\/assets\/images\/gcaptain-new-gray-logo.svg\" alt=\"logo\"\/><br \/>\n\t\tSubscribe for Daily Maritime Insights<\/p>\n<p>Sign up for gCaptain\u2019s newsletter and never miss an update<\/p>\n<p>        \u2014 trusted by our 107,050 members<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By\u00a0Michael Nienaber Nov 7, 2025 (Bloomberg) \u2013Germany may buy four additional Boeing Co. P-8A Poseidon submarine-hunting planes, according&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":557994,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5310],"tags":[2104,2000,299,1824,332,29488],"class_list":{"0":"post-557993","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-germany","8":"tag-boeing","9":"tag-eu","10":"tag-europe","11":"tag-germany","12":"tag-russia","13":"tag-submarine"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115516119183002798","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557993","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=557993"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557993\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/557994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=557993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=557993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=557993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}