Boeing already provides simulation training for the crews of India’s C-17 heavy-lift and P-8I maritime aircraft, which are both also under Performance Based Logistics contracts to guarantee availability of platforms.
Between the navy’s own maintenance facilities at INS Rajali and MRO contractors, Air Works and AIES, India’s P-8I aircraft can now be fully sustained with complete maintenance cycles without having to leave the country.
This is the final aircraft to be delivered of an order for four aircraft placed by the Ministry of Defence in 2016, in addition to the initial eight aircraft contracted.
This is the third aircraft to be delivered under an option contract for four additional aircraft that the Ministry of Defence awarded in 2016 in addition to the eight aircraft already in service.
The Indian Navy will retire its Tu-142 aircraft today. Here’s a final look at the aircraft.
Captain HS Jhajj was the first navy pilot to be trained on the Boeing P-8I Long Range Maritime Reconnaissance aircraft and would have been the first CO of the P-8I Sqn.
Check out the operator console of the Indian Navy Boeing P-8I Long Range Maritime Reconnaissance (LRMR) aircraft and find out why the Indian Navy could double the size of it’s currently planned fleet.
The new ACNS (Air Materiel), Rear Admiral Srinivas Kanugo, will have three sub-directorates looking at air logistics, plans/procurement and perspectives and systems engineering under him, as well as responsibility for air technical manpower management.
These aircraft are part of a batch of 57 Hawks ordered jointly by the Indian Navy and Indian Air Force (IAF) for around 700 million pounds, the first 17 of which will go to the navy.
