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UK SDSR outlines P-8 buy

23rd November 2015 - 08:48 GMT | by Grant Turnbull in London

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The UK has confirmed that it will buy nine new Boeing P-8 maritime patrol aircraft as part of a £178 billion investment in defence equipment and support over the next decade.

Plans to buy nine aircraft and other equipment will be formally unveiled in the government’s strategic defence and security review (SDSR), released today.

The P-8 'Poseidon' aircraft will provide maritime surveillance, anti-submarine and anti-surface ship warfare and increase ‘ the protection of our nuclear deterrent and our new aircraft carriers’, according to the MoD.

Each aircraft will be fitted with torpedoes and a range of sensors including advanced radar

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