Indian media is reporting Boeing may have won an order of four addtional P-8i I Poseidon longrange maritime patrol aircraft , which will add to the eight such planes already contracted from Boeing under the $2.1-billion deal inked in January 2009. It will take this biggest-ever American win in India to be a $3 billion package. India’s Navy has been under tremendous pressure to improve its surveillance capability in the wake of the Mumbai attacks of November 2008.
Boeing has not acknowledged the announcement on it website yet. There may be an intent to wait until President Obama’s forthcoming visit to India.
