Two more aircrafts are expected later this year and a total number of eight such have been ordered from Boeing.
New Delhi: Indian navy's first Boeing P8I long-range maritime reconnaissance and anti-submarine warfare aircraft landed at INS Rajali Naval air station in Arrakonam, Tamil Nadu on Wednesday.
Two more aircrafts are expected later this year and a total number of eight such have been ordered from Boeing. All the deliveries are expected to be completed by 2015.
"The Indian Navy would be only the second operator of this aircraft after US Navy to operate the P8 Poseidon," a senior naval official said adding that with the Russian-made TU 142M aircrafts, Boeing P-8Is were contracted in the year 2009.
With Additional Inputs from PTI
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