Boeing rolls out P-8A Poseidon; India is first buyer

Washington: American aviation giant Boeing today rolled out its first 'P-8A Poseidon', claiming it to be the world's most advanced multi-mission maritime patrol and reconnaissance aircraft, with the Company saying that India would be its first buyer country.
India has ordered eight P-8Is, a derivative of the American version, the first of which Boeing will deliver within 48 months of the contract being signed. The rest seven aircraft would be delivered by 2015, filling a wide gap in India's maritime reconnaissance capability, hit by crashes of its Russian built aircraft.
31/07/09 Lalit K Jha/Press Trust of India

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