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Navy Seeks More Foreign Poseidon Partners As P-8 Deliveries Near End

Tuesday, May 7th, 2019

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Navy Seeks More Foreign Poseidon Partners As P-8 Deliveries Near End

A P-8A Poseidon assigned to Air Test and Evaluation Squadron (VX) 20 flies over USS Zumwalt (DDG-1000) in Chesapeake Bay in 2016. (Photo: U.S. Navy)

NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. — Approaching the U.S. Navy's final planned buy of Boeing [BA] P-8 Poseidons in 2020, 169 of the multimission maritime aircraft have been sold across seven countries. As primary buyer, the Navy contractually accounts for 111 of those planes, according to Capt. Tony Rossi, program manager for the P-8 and its predecessor, the P-3, with a program of record reaching 120. Currently in full-rate production at 1.5 units per month during production lot 10, continuous deliveries in…

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