India offers to buy more U.S. helicopters

[Vikrant]

India has offered to increase the number of Apache and Chinook helicopters it initially wanted to purchase from the US. Hopefully, it will bring the tension down between the two. The deal is worth 1.4 billion dollars. It is a useful chunk of change if not much.

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India offers to buy more U.S. helicopters, hopes to drive down costs | Reuters

 

[whitehall]

How can India's helicopter superiority benefit the US?

 

[Moonglow]

More mobile troops...

 

[Vikrant]

How can India's helicopter superiority benefit the US?

Influx of 1.4 billion dollars creates thousands of jobs in the US.

 

[whitehall]

How can India's helicopter superiority benefit the US?

Influx of 1.4 billion dollars creates thousands of jobs in the US.

Chump change. Barry Hussein spent that much trying to prop up Solyrinda.

 

[Vikrant]

How can India's helicopter superiority benefit the US?

Influx of 1.4 billion dollars creates thousands of jobs in the US.

Chump change. Barry Hussein spent that much trying to prop up Solyrinda.

Tell that to Hagel who is there pushing for the deal.

 

[Vikrant]

NEW DELHI—The U.S. and India must broaden the scope of their military partnership by jointly developing and producing arms, U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said Saturday.

Capping a three-day visit to New Delhi, Mr. Hagel also said the U.S. and India should increase the "scale and complexity" of their military exercises.

The two countries should "transform our defense industrial cooperation from simply buying and selling to co-production, co-development and freer exchange of technology," Mr. Hagel told scholars and business leaders at an event organized by the Observer Research Foundation, a New Delhi-based think tank.

Mr. Hagel met with Indian leaders including Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday. He also met with Indian and U.S. defense companies in New Delhi.

Hagel Says U.S., India Should Jointly Develop, Produce Arms - WSJ