DATE:17/08/07
SOURCE:Flight International

India completes Airbus A319 and Boeing P-8 maritime evaluations
By Graham Warwick

India has completed evaluations of a maritime patrol derivative of the Airbus A319 and the Boeing P-8
Poseidon in support of a navy requirement for eight anti-submarine aircraft.

**인도가 차기 8대의 대잠초계기 사업을위해 Airbus A319 와 Boeing P-8 Poseidon 해상
평가를 마쳤다고

Other bidders for the deal are Israel Aerospace Industries and Elta Systems with a Dassault Falcon
900 business jet derivative, Lockheed Martin with a remanufactured P-3 Orion, and a Russian
consortium with the Ilyushin Il-38.

**여타 경쟁사들은 IAI 와 Elta가 Dassault Falcon 900 상용기체로, 록히드가 재생된
P-3, 러시아가 Ilyushin Il-38 로 경쟁에 참여하고 있다고...

As neither the P-8 nor the A319 derivative yet exist, the flight trials conducted in the USA and Spain
involved simulations, flying leased commercial Boeing 737 and A320 family aircraft on representative
flight profiles and mission system evaluations using US Navy and Spanish air force P-3s. EADS Casa
is offering its FITS mission system, which has been installed in Spain's upgraded P-3Bs.

**P-8, A-319 등 기체의 파생형이 존재치 않아, 비행시험이 미국과 스페인에서
simulation 으로 이루어 졌다고... 상용 737 과 A320 기체를 임대하여 비행시험을,
미해군과 스페인 공군의 P-3를 활용 시스템 평가를 하였으며, 스페인의 개량된 P-3B
에 장착된 FITS mission system을 EADS Casa가 제공하였다고...

The mission system for Boeing's P-8A uses developments of sensors already operational in US Navy
P-3Cs, but the company's offer of a P-8I variant to India would allow the integration of indigenous
systems such as communications, datalink and identification friend-or-foe equipment. The US
company is negotiating agreements with several Indian companies to meet industrial participation
requirements.

** P-8A는 현재 미해군용 P-3C용으로 운영중인 장비를 개발하여 사용예정이나,
인도에는 자국산 통신, 데이타 link, 피아식별장치를 장착한 P-8I 를 제안하고 있다고...
현재 인도 업체들을 참가시키기위한 협상이 진행중이라고...

Australia, meanwhile, is negotiating to join the US Navy in developing the first capability upgrade spiral
for the P-8A, having earlier turned down an offer to join the system development and demonstration
programme now under way. Canberra has selected the P-8 to replace its AP-3Cs, which will be retired
from 2018, with a requirement for 12-20 aircraft.

**호주는 최초에 제안된 SDD 단계의 참여 제안을 거절하였으나, P-8A 단계별 개량계획에
참가하는 것으로 미해군과 협상중. 호주는 AP-3C 대체를 목적으로 P-8을 선정하였다고,
AP-3C는 2018년 부터 퇴역함에 따라, 12~20 대의 기체가 요구 된다고...

The baseline P-8A will fly in September 2009, with initial operational capability set for 2013 and the first
capability upgrade spiral to be available around 2015, in the same timeframe that Australia needs its
first deliveries, says Rick Buck, programme manager, P-8 international operations.

**기본형 P-8A는 09년 9월에 비행 예정이며, 2013년에 첫 작전운영에 들어가고, 첫 개량은
2015년경이 될것이라고, 같은 일정으로 호주에 첫 기체 인도가 필요하다고...