The Indian Navy’s Boeing P-8I plane commenced operations from INS Hansa, Goa with two plane arriving on 30 December 2021. INS Hansa is an Indian naval air station positioned close to Dabolim in Goa, India. The navy air base has a civil enclave, that operates as Dabolim Airport. The plane have been inducted after fitment of indigenous tools and Flight Acceptance Trials. On arrival, the plane have been welcomed by a MiG 29K formation. The Indian Navy had acquired the primary batch of eight P-8I plane in 2013 which can be stationed at INS Rajali, Arakkonam. The second batch of 4 extra plane will probably be primarily based at Indian Naval Air Squadron 316, to be commissioned at INS Hansa.
In January 2008, Boeing proposed the P-8I, a personalized export variant of the P-8A, for the Indian Navy. It options two main elements not fitted on the P-8A, a Telephonics APS-143 OceanEye aft radar and a magnetic anomaly detector (MAD). On 4 January 2009, India’s Ministry of Defence signed a US$2.1 billion settlement with Boeing for eight P-8Is to exchange the Indian Navy’s getting older Tupolev Tu-142M maritime surveillance turboprops. It was Boeing’s first navy sale to India and the P-8’s first worldwide buyer. In October 2010, India’s Defence Acquisition Council authorised the acquisition of 4 extra P-8Is; contract signature adopted in July 2016 with deliveries anticipated to start out from 2020.
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The Bharat Electronics Restricted (BEL) Information Hyperlink II communications permits the P-8I to trade tactical knowledge between Indian Navy plane, ships and shore institutions; it additionally options an built-in BEL-developed IFF system. India has bought AGM-84L Harpoon Block II missiles and Mk 54 All-Up-Spherical Light-weight torpedoes for the P-8I. In July 2012, Boeing started P-8I flight testing. On 19 December 2012, the primary P-8I was handed over at Boeing’s facility in Seattle. It was inducted into the Indian Navy on 15 Could 2013. The kind relies at INS Rajali, in Tamil Nadu. P-8Is participated within the 2017 Doklam Standoff between Indian Military and China’s Folks’s Liberation Military. Indian Navy P-8Is additionally monitored Pakistani Military items throughout the 2019 Pulwama standoff.
The Boeing P-8 Poseidon (previously Multimission Maritime Plane) is an American maritime patrol plane developed and produced by Boeing Protection, Area & Safety, modified from the 737-800ERX. The P-8 operates within the anti-submarine warfare (ASW), anti-surface warfare (ASUW), and transport interdiction roles. It’s armed with torpedoes, Harpoon anti-ship missiles, and different weapons, can drop and monitor sonobuoys, and might function along side different belongings, together with the Northrop Grumman MQ-4C Triton maritime surveillance unmanned aerial automobile (UAV). The P-8 is operated by the US Navy, the Indian Navy, the Royal Australian Air Drive (RAAF), and the UK’s Royal Air Drive (RAF). It has additionally been ordered by the Royal Norwegian Air Drive (RNoAF), the Royal New Zealand Air Drive (RNZAF), the Republic of Korea Navy (ROKN), and the German Navy.
