That of the European Maritime Patrol is a thorny issue. In the years immediately after the fall of the Berlin Wall, while we reaped the "peace dividends" and the Russian submarines seemed condemned to rot in piles in the cold bays of the north and east of the country, we gradually left die anti-submarine warfare capabilities, but not only. While the submarine forces of NATO nations languished, reducing the number of attack submarines in service dramatically, something similar was happening in the skies, being postponed or renouncing the replacement of key devices, such as the P-3 Orion. What is worse, the powerful European aeronautical industry did not even show interest in a market and in a type of devices that are now again as necessary as they were in the 80s. That is why in the next lines we will focus on describing the main attempts that have been carried out in Europe in recent years aimed at presenting an alternative to the American or Japanese maritime patrol aircraft...
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