{"id":4715,"date":"2019-01-28T22:58:00","date_gmt":"2019-01-28T22:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/?p=4715"},"modified":"2019-01-28T22:58:00","modified_gmt":"2019-01-28T22:58:00","slug":"uk-spends-507m-on-final-4-p-8a-poseidon-mpa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/2019\/01\/28\/uk-spends-507m-on-final-4-p-8a-poseidon-mpa\/","title":{"rendered":"UK SPENDS $507M ON FINAL 4 P-8A POSEIDON MPA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/09\/p-8-poseidon.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-4183\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/09\/p-8-poseidon-1024x534.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"292\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/09\/p-8-poseidon-1024x534.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/09\/p-8-poseidon-300x156.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/09\/p-8-poseidon-768x400.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/09\/p-8-poseidon-560x292.jpg 560w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/09\/p-8-poseidon-260x136.jpg 260w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/09\/p-8-poseidon-160x83.jpg 160w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/09\/p-8-poseidon.jpg 1170w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source: UK Defence Journal<\/p>\n<p>By George Allison<\/p>\n<p>Boeing has been awarded an almost $2.5 billion contract to produce 19 P-8A Poseidon maritime patrol aircraft for the US Navy, Norway and the United Kingdom.<\/p>\n<p>Ten of the aircraft are for the US Navy, four for the UK and five for Norway.<\/p>\n<p>The UK intends to procure 9 of the aircraft in total and had already ordered five. This purchase brings the total UK order of P-8A Poseidon Maritime Patrol Aircraft up to 9.<\/p>\n<p>The aircraft will cost less than \u00a3100 million per unit.<\/p>\n<p>Image source: US Navy<\/p>\n<p>Read more at: https:\/\/ukdefencejournal.org.uk\/uk-spends-507m-on-final-four-p-8a-poseidon-maritime-patrol-aircraft\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: UK Defence Journal By George Allison Boeing has been awarded an almost $2.5 billion contract to produce 19 P-8A Poseidon maritime patrol aircraft for the US Navy, Norway and the United Kingdom. Ten of the aircraft are for the US Navy, four for the UK and five for Norway. The UK intends to procure&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/2019\/01\/28\/uk-spends-507m-on-final-4-p-8a-poseidon-mpa\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">UK SPENDS $507M ON FINAL 4 P-8A POSEIDON MPA<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4183,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-defence-industry","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4715","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4715"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4715\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4716,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4715\/revisions\/4716"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}