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There may be an incorrect statement regarding the Norwegian P-8 in the linked article.

The author states that that "they won’t enter into active service until later this year", but the source the author links to doesn't actually make that claim. All it says is that the P-3s will keep flying until sometime in 2023, when the "P-8 is ready to take over". I don't think that implies that Norway doesn't already have some P-8s in active operation.

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> I would like to believe that this is possible within a few months. Setting a specific date is difficult. But we are now trying to qualify the P-8 aircraft and crews for operational service from the end of the first quarter of 2023, confirms Rolf Folland, head of the Air Force to TV 2.

Translated from this piece published in November 2022: https://www.tv2.no/nyheter/innenriks/settes-i-beredskap-rask...

So the planes were not in operational service at that time of the explosion.

Thanks. That sounds like it rules out the Norwegian P-8 claim.

Doesn't really rule out the P-8, apparently Norway has had P-8's since 2021, in order for an aircraft to be 'fully operational' you have to do training/exercises, fly the aircraft. If the Norwegian Air Force wanted to have the P-8 fully operational by Jan 30 2023, they had to have been flying sorties before then.

https://www.arctictoday.com/norway-takes-delivery-of-boeing-...

In confirmation, here's a press release saying that they have been making training flights with their P8's since June 22, with plans to make 2 flights a week: https://www-forsvaret-no.translate.goog/aktuelt-og-presse/ak...

Tom Clancy would disavow having served as inspiration if the story did not feature secret prototypes! (I know nothing about Tom Clancy and his works, that's just how I imagine them to be like: not full-out "future gear porn" but a well-balanced moderate dose of it?)

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