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The Foreign Military Sale contract received by Lockheed is worth $186.5 million and will enhance the Pakistani navy's capabilities in monitoring ship and submarine activities off its coast.
"It provides a world-class maritime surveillance capability to the Pakistan Navy, and will be an important contributor to allied operations," said Tom Pillion of the Pentagon's International Programs section.
The P-3C Orion is a workhorse naval reconnaissance plane that can put in long hours patrolling wide areas of open ocean. Lockheed said in a statement Tuesday that the contract would allow them to continue an upgrade program that began a year ago and has thus far upgraded the surveillance systems on one of Pakistan's seven Orions. The second plane will be delivered next month.
The upgrades include radar, infrared and acoustic systems. Lockheed said the project would improve the plane's capabilities to monitor both deep-water and littoral environments.
"With 91 percent of all active-duty P-3's now carrying Lockheed Martin's integrated mission system, we know these aircraft will provide Pakistan's navy with world-class performance," said Lockheed Vice President Richard Udicious.
