India To Buy 4 P-8s; $2.5B Helo Deal Awaits
India Defense News — India has cleared purchase of four additional P-8I maritime surveillance aircraft for US $1 billion from Boeing, which awaits the signing of another $2.5 billion contract to purchase attack and heavy-lift helicopters, said a Ministry of Defence source. The Defence Acquisition Council (DAC), the highest body in the MoD that decides weapons procurement, cleared the purchase of additional P-8I aircraft Tuesday on a government-to-government basis to top the eight already contracted in 2009. The Indian Navy last y…
India's Naval Aviation: Punching Below Its Weight
Some readers of last week's post on the Indian carrier program contacted me to suggest that I had short changed Indian efforts to develop naval aviation partnerships. Some readers of last week's post on the Indian carrier program contacted me to suggest that I had short changed Indian efforts to develop naval aviation partnerships. In retrospect, I clearly understated the extent to which the Indian Navy has worked with other carrier-operating navies, especially the USN. For example, Indian pilots have been training (with MiG-…
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