Britain inks multi-billion pound Boeing deals

Britain announced on Monday the completion of multi-billion dollar deals with Boeing to buy nine P-8A Poseidon maritime patrol planes and to upgrade 50 Apache helicopters. The Ministry of Defence made the announcements at the opening of the Farnborough Airshow in southern England, the aerospace industry's premier showcase. Britain announced its intention to buy the submarine-hunting P-8A planes in November to plug a gap in its defences that has existed since 2010, when it ditched the Nimrod, bui