NEW DELHI—India has taken delivery of its fifth P-8I long-range maritime reconnaissance and anti-submarine warfare aircraft as part of the eight units ordered from the U.S. aircraft manufacturer Boeing. The new aircraft “arrived on schedule” on Sept. 9 at INS Rajali, a naval base at Arakonam, near the southern city of Chennai, where it joined the four previously delivered P-8Is, says India’s deputy chief of naval staff, Vice Admiral R.K. Pattanaik.
NEW DELHI — After ending a decades-long arms embargo, Japan has agreed to allow India to make parts for its US-2 amphibious aircraft in a bid to expedite a proposed sales deal with New Delhi and bolster Tokyo’s own domestic defense industry.
