Navy's P-8I maritime aircraft losing technology race due to poor contracting
In 2012, the Indian Navy turned into the primary non-US military to handle the Boeing P-8 Poseidon, paying $2.1 billion for eight of these bleeding edge multi-mission sea flying machine that watch immeasurable extends of sea to distinguish and decimate adversary submarines and warships. However, India has lost the upside of being first-mover. Australia's new P-8 airplane, which landed in that nation last Wednesday, is essentially more competent than the Indian variant. So too will be the British form of the P-8. The reason: poor shrinking by New Delhi. The Australian and British contracts with Boeing accommodate programmed overhaul of their P-8s, couple with each new redesign of the US Navy P-8s, a procedure that proceeds round the year, through the flying machine's administration life. India's agreement for the P-8I has no such arrangement. Australia's and the UK's programmed overhauls are installed in what is named a "winding update program". ...