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2008-02-06 India-Pakistan

Pakistan to bolster defence to counter Indian purchases

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Posted by john frum 2008-02-06 14:51|| || Front Page|| [9 views ] Top

#1 India has signed its biggest military deal yet with the US to buy six Super Hercules C130J special role aircraft in a $1 billion-plus package deal.

Air Chief Marshal FH Major, Chief of Air Staff of the Indian Air Force (IAF), told India Strategic website and defence magazine that a Letter of Agreement (LAO) was signed on January 30 in New Delhi for six aircraft, infrastructure, spares and spare engines, related equipment, and operational and maintenance training.

"It's a package deal with the US government under its Foreign Military Sales Programme (FMS), and India has retained options to buy six more of these aircraft for its special forces for combined army-air force operations," the IAF chief told the magazine's website which he will inaugurate Thursday.

Posted by john frum 2008-02-06 15:20|| 2008-02-06 15:20|| Front Page Top

#2 Bangalore: Indias state-owned aircraft maker Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd (HAL) will produce 57 additional Hawk advanced jet trainers, under licence from British defence contractor BAE Systems Plc., for the Indian Air Force (IAF) and the navy.

Posted by john frum 2008-02-06 15:21|| 2008-02-06 15:21|| Front Page Top

#3 next fiscal will likely to see the Israeli industries signing a deal for more than one billion dollars with India for 50 Green Pine radars to bolster air defence.

Posted by john frum 2008-02-06 15:23|| 2008-02-06 15:23|| Front Page Top

#4 As Indias defense imports are expected to balloon to about $30 billion by 2012, generating offsets worth more than $10 billion, the countrys major defense producer, the Tata Group of companies, is maneuvering to take advantage of the boom ahead.
The licenses allow Tata Power to design, develop, assemble, manufacture and upgrade electronic warfare systems, avionics, air defense guns and missile launchers for Indias military.

Posted by john frum 2008-02-06 15:25|| 2008-02-06 15:25|| Front Page Top

#5 The first of three long-range radar detection EhI (DRLO) airplanes which are being built for an Indian air force order, will be sent for further tests in Israel before years end, the chief of the Beriev Taganrog Aviation Scientific and Engineering Complex (TANTK) OKB, Ivan Gavrilov, has reported.

Posted by john frum 2008-02-06 15:26|| 2008-02-06 15:26|| Front Page Top

#6 In the biggest-ever deal for a public sector defence undertaking, Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) has signed a $1 billion manufacturing outsourcing contract with American aerospace major Boeing over ten years.

Under a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) signed here by Jim Albaugh, President of Boeing Integrated Defence System and HAL Chairman Ashok K Baweja, the Indian defence PSU, will manufacture subsystems for Boeing's wide range of fighter planes like F-15, F-18 Super Hornets and Apache Helicopters

Posted by john frum 2008-02-06 15:27|| 2008-02-06 15:27|| Front Page Top

#7 Northrop Grumman's Ship Systems division is planning to pursue opportunities in India and arrangements should be announced this year, Aerospace Daily has learned.

The Ship Systems division will follow the lead of Northrop's Integrated Defense Systems and Electronics divisions in tapping opportunities in India.

The Indian navy plans to induct 120 warships and 12 submarines over the next decade to protect its maritime interests and expand its influence in the Indian Ocean region.

Posted by john frum 2008-02-06 15:28|| 2008-02-06 15:28|| Front Page Top

#8 India has signed a contract with Russia for the licensed assembly of 40 multi-role Su-30MKI (Flanker-H) fighter jets, news agencies reported last week. According to experts, the agreement will cost India more than $1.5 billion. It will be a follow-up to the contract concluded in 2000 to deliver 140 fighters of the same type to New Delhi. The contractor will be the Irkut Scientific Production Corporation in Irkutsk, a part of the Sukhoi Aviation Holding Company (AHK). It assembles practically all the Su planes Moscow supplies to the subcontinent.

Posted by john frum 2008-02-06 15:33|| 2008-02-06 15:33|| Front Page Top

#9 The Indian Air Force is going into a high drive to revamp its entire fleet of helicopters by planning to induct two more squadrons of attack gunships, capable of operating in high altitudes, and six heavy lift choppers.
he US aviation giant Boeing's world best seller AH-64A Apache helicopters, Russian Kamov and MI series and European consortium EADS would be bidding for the IAF's order, which could run up to more than a billion US dollars.

Along with attack and heavy lift helicopters, Major said a global tender would be floated jointly with the army within three months to acquire 317 multi-role light helicopters.

If the Navy also joins in the joint Request For Proposals (RFP), which according to the Air Chief, would be out by May, the Indian purchase order could go up to 367 helicopters.

For this contract, the bidders could include Boeing's CH-47 Chinhooks, Sikorsky and Russian MI's. IAF already operates a fleet of Russian MI-26 helicopters in this range.

Major said IAF was in the process of finalising procedure for implementing an extended contract given to the Russian to acquire 80 upgrade MI-17IV helicopters.

Posted by john frum 2008-02-06 15:36|| 2008-02-06 15:36|| Front Page Top

#10 Very interesting John. So Boeing is outsourcing some of its military aircraft manufacturing offshore eh?

I just have to wonder of some of their commercial aircraft manufacturing will soon follow - if so things are going to be quite interesting here in the Peoples Republic of Washington State.

I kind of expected that Boeing would start outsourcing some of their work when they moved their Headquarters from Seattle (where some of their manufacturing plants (and Unions members) are located) to Chicago.

Posted by CrazyFool 2008-02-06 15:45|| 2008-02-06 15:45|| Front Page Top

#11 Crazy,

That train has already left the station, commercial is well on the path to outsourcing. Take the Japanese Heavies building Dreamliner wings for example.

Posted by bombay">bombay 2008-02-06 16:19|| 2008-02-06 16:19|| Front Page Top

#12 Even if you could afford decent toys, Pakland. It still wouldn't prevent the Indians from whooping your ass.

Again.

And again.

Posted by DarthVader">DarthVader 2008-02-06 17:49|| 2008-02-06 17:49|| Front Page Top

#13 john frum. Wake me up when India orders some AC-130s!

Posted by 3dc 2008-02-06 18:20|| 2008-02-06 18:20|| Front Page Top

#14 the bad news is with bush ordering $830 million in aid too pakiland that will boost thirer strength a little, too bad we are paying for it

Posted by sinse 2008-02-06 19:15|| 2008-02-06 19:15|| Front Page Top

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