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TAIWAN
12 upgraded P-3C Orion MPAs
On March 13, Lockheed Martin Maritime Systems and Sensors was awarded a US$665.6 million contract to upgrade 12 P-3C Orion maritime patrol and reconnaissance aircraft, acquired by the Republic of China Navy under a Foreign Military Sales contract in 2007.
The upgrades will include new mission system avionics and service life extension kits, to extend the aircrafts’ service lives by a further 15,000 flight hours. Planned mission system upgrades include installation of Electronic Support Measures (ESM), acoustics, communications, Electro-Optic (EO) and Infra Red (IR) systems, new data management hardware and software, controls, displays and mission computers.The first modernised P-3C will be delivered to Taiwan in 2012.