the Boeing Maritime surveillance
aircraft programme is a result of the
marketing analyses of the leading United
States aircraft company which show that
there is a demand for the new patrol air-
crafts who are able to continuously opera-
te for about ten hours. At the same time,
not all countries looking for patrol aircraft
have sufficient funds which would allow for a
purchase of the P-8 Poseidon aircraft, the
most popular in this class, or do not need
the aircraft with so advanced specifications.
The combination of larger electronic equip-
ment with a rather small airframe (within
some usage restrictions) would allow to cut
purchase and exploitation costs which co-
By: Łukasz Pacholski
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