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Thursday, December 20, 2012

India Navy gets its most sophisticated warfare aircraft Boeing P-8I

P-8I Neptune |The first of the eight long-range maritime reconnaissance and anti-submarine warfare aircraft Boeing P-8I was delivered to the Indian Navy in the US. The Navy will fly three of these to India next year.

The delivery of P-8Is, the most sophisticated aircraft to be inducted into the Navy to date, has been on time unlike the other systems India is procuring from overseas including the aircraft carrier Admiral Gorshkov, which has been delayed by several years.

India, one of the first countries to select this new aircraft, had ordered eight P-8Is in January 2009 for $ 2.1 billion (Rs.11,524 crore).

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