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    • Agencies Tags : india, us, maritime aircraft deal Posted: Monday , Jan 05, 2009 at 1651 hrs
    Long-range maritime aircraft
    India has signed a deal to buy eight maritime aircraft from aerospace major Boeing.

    Interestingly, the P8I deal would be the largest deal India signed with the US, after the USD 962 million deal signed in 2007 for six Lockheed Martin's C-130J 'Super Hercules' transport aicraft for its special forces.

    Its purchase would greatly help inter-operability and supportability objectives of both the Indian and US Navies, according to a Boeing official in New Delhi.

    Apart from the Tu-142Ms, the Indian Navy currently uses IL-38SDs and Dorniers for surveillance operations in the Indian Ocean Region (IOR).

    It was also looking for six advanced medium-range maritime reconnaissance aircraft at a budget of Rs 1,600 crore to further boost its patrol and intelligence gathering capabilities in the IOR.

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    defece dealsBy: aman verma | 23-May-2009 Reply | Forward It is good to have such kind of deals as they make a nation more powerful and more reliable at the time of war.It is a matter of least consideration that who will get more comission and when. Nations security should be kept at to always
    Defence dealsBy: jai Singh | 06-Jan-2009 Reply | Forward The deal was ten years overdue but as usual the government with its creeping and nitpicking bureaucracy cannot make up its mind to plug the gaps in the nations' maritime defences. It was these gaps that lead to the Mumbai carnage.
    It will be much better if we build our own air crafts.By: Ayyappa | 06-Jan-2009 Reply | Forward I always wonder are the planes and other equipments purchased for US bugged? Why US should not put bugging devices some were with in the air craft and spy on other militaries? It is a vary simple cost effective metho of spying on us. If some one knows for sure I am talking nonsence please hilight in this forum. By developing our own air craft we give challenging projects to the new younger generation Indian engineers. We should develop indegenious wepons development.
    Its not easy to manufacture an aircraftBy: Ram | 25-Mar-2009 Reply | Forward I would like to bring one thing to ur kind notice, manufacturing an aircraft includes decades of effort , planning and sophisticated technology. Its beter going for U.S planes instead of buying russian ones. The U.s planes are proven worthy world wide and thier technology is least exposed to chinese who are a major threat to india at any point of time. i do agree that this deal would have happened atleast ten years ago but still some how it seems to be little better, that it happened now atleast.
    US HypocrisyBy: Charlie | 06-Jan-2009 Reply | Forward As a reward for this we will get another devastating terror attack in India. We may lose about 200 people again but the US will simply tell us to exercise 'restraint'. Then again, 3 people will die in Israel, and the US will allow Israel to bomb the daylights out of the Palestinians and kill about 500 of them. No calls for restraint as the security of Israel, in the words of the US, is 'non-negotiable'. What about India then? Is our security negotiable? No thanks US, India can get its weaponds from Russia, our true friends.
    DealBy: Peter | 06-Jan-2009 Reply | Forward Some UPA family members millionaire many times already
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