P-8 About to be Ordered

Not a surprise as such but its getting real now. First time we will own a variant of the 737...How many techies and pilots will see the opportunities here to get qualified on a type that pretty much every airline in the world has one of?

Britain will order the first of a new generation of spy planes from Boeing in the next few months as it beefs up its maritime surveillance capabilities.

Defence Secretary Michael Fallon said the UK will sign the contract for the first of nine P-8 Poseidon jets this summer in the start of a defence deal worth an estimated £2bn.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/business...begin-orders-of-nimrod-replacement-spyplanes/

 

[FOMz]

I could offer a number of reasons...Its becoming a proven system, The RAF has an increasing stock of Boeing products with the Sentry, Air Seeker and Chinook (have I missed any?)

C-17 DT_Xtremez_28:

 

[Max Reheat]

Apache, though that's AAC

 

[FOMz]

So.. with the £ crashing through the floor currently - the cost of each aircraft will have shot through the roof... will the UK still buy it or just reduce its order down........?

 

[busby1971]

If the Govt were smart they'll have agreed an exchange rate, any way by the time we get them the £ should gave recovered.

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[Barch]

If the Govt were smart they'll have agreed an exchange rate, any way by the time we get them the £ should gave recovered.

If the Government was smart we would have bought, paid for and be flying them in squadron service by now.

 

[Kryten]

If the Government was smart we would have bought, paid for and be flying them in squadron service by now.

If the Government was smart, the British equivalent, which they had bought, nearly paid for and was about to enter squadron service, would have been doing the job it was designed for for a number of years, instead of being ripped into pieces.....

Still, its not as if that particular act costs any jobs or anything...

 

[FOMz]

First British P-8 Poseidon maritime patrol aircraft to be delivered in 2019

First British P-8 Poseidon maritime patrol aircraft to be delivered in 2019

Minister for Defence Procurement Harriett Baldwin has signed a P-8 Poseidon Maritime Patrol Aircraft ‘declaration’ with her United States counterpart, Deputy Secretary of Defense Bob Work.

The declaration is designed to ‘further strengthen the uniquely close defence relationship’ between the United Kingdom and the United States.

https://ukdefencejournal.org.uk/first-british-p-8-poseidon-maritime-patrol-aircraft-delivered-2019/