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Old 5th May 2015, 23:25
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Bannock, I hope the CTM is as good as I remember.

It's very easy to be "on budget" when you've made the customer pay a hefty sum to get what amounts to insignificant changes compared to the P-8A as flown by the USN. You'd be interested to discover how much stuff the US has because the Indians paid for it!

Boeing appear to have used a great deal of artistic license in their press release, although it is certainly open to interpretation by the reader; it's amazing what you can claim by having a Mad Boom (old technology) "integrated" with the mission system. The world-wide spares system for the P-8 is really stretching the limits of imagination; although does shipping spares overnight from Seattle by FEDEX satisfy that statement?
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