According to Aviation Week, India’s first delivery of an ‘in-country’ Boeing P8-i aircraft this month will be followed by two further aircraft in the third and fourth quarters of the year. India has eight P-8Is on firm order and Boeing is optimistic that options on a further four could be taken up later in 2013, or early 2014.
The Indian Navy became the first international customer for the P-8, which is a modified Boeing 737, in the wake of the 2008 terrorist attacks on Mumbai. Besides surveillance, the airplane is also delivered with anti-submarine missiles.
