The United Kingdom has ordered nine Boeing P-8 Poseidon maritime patrol aircraft (MPAs), then Prime Minister David Cameron announced on 11 July at the Farnborough airshow. "We have today signed the contract for nine new P-8 maritime patrol aircraft for the Royal Air Force [RAF]," Cameron said. According to the UK Ministry of Defence (MoD), the cost of the P-8s will be GBP3 billion "over the next decade". The P-8s are being purchased for the RAF to fill a UK capability gap created after the UK's Nimrod MRA4 project was cancelled in 2010. The first aircraft is expected to be delivered to the UK in 2019, UK defence minister Philip Dunne said at Farnborough, with the remaining eight then delivered over the following 24 months.
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