Another $1 b deal with US |
India on July 27 inked the $1.1 billion deal for four more Poseidon-8I long-range maritime patrol aircraft, which takes the total value of arms contracts signed with the US to over $15 billion in the last 10 years, even as the two countries also discussed several new projects to jointly produce weapon systems and platforms. Visiting US undersecretary of defence Frank Kendall, heading a top Pentagon delegation, held extensive talks with defence secretary G Mohan Kumar and defence production secretary A K Gupta about the different co-production projects under the bilateral Defence Trade and Technology Initiative (DTTI). The US is very keen on India picking one of its fighter jets, either the twin-engine F/A-18 "Super Hornet" (Boeing) or the single-engine F-16 "Fighting Falcon" (Lockheed Martin), for a "Make in India" programme in the defence production sector.
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