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<p>India became the first export customer for the <a href="http://www.ainonline.com/news/single-news-page/article/boeings-p-8-gets-its-wings/" target="_blank">Boeing P-8 Poseidon</a> maritime patrol aircraft. Unusually, Boeing clinched the sale of eight aircraft on commercial rather than FMS terms, and persuaded India to commit even before the P-8’s first flight. According to The Times of India, the sale is worth $2.1 billion, more than twice the value of the 2007 deal to buy six C-130Js, which was India’s previous biggest-ever defense buy from the U.S. Boeing said that the P-8 would provide India with speed, reliability, persistence and room for growth. The P-8I version will be armed with torpedoes, depth charges and Boeing’s AGM-84L Harpoon anti-ship missile, which is the subject of a separate $170 million purchase. The aircraft will be delivered from late 2012/early 2013 through 2015. India’s P-8s will replace eight ageing Tupolev Tu-142M four-engine turboprop aircraft. </p>


First P-8s for Export Going to India 

India became the first export customer for the <link http://www.ainonline.com/news/single-news-page/article/boeings-p-8-gets-its-wings/ _blank>Boeing P-8 P

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