and yet cuts in the federal defense budget and a continuing weakness in its military helicopter business forced Sikorsky Aircraft Corp. to close its military completions center here in Big Flats at the end of the year with a loss of 570 jobs...
Posted on 09/26/2012 7:11:10 PM PDT by JerseyanExile
India's air force has agreed to purchase 22 Apache AH-64D multirole combat helicopters from Boeing in a deal worth an estimated $1.4 billion.
"The financial bid for attack helos was opened some time last week, and since Russia had withdrawn its Mi-28N Night Hunter, Boeing emerged as the sole bidder," a senior defense ministry official says.
The Apache deal includes both direct commercial sale (DCS) and foreign military sales (FMS) components. The agreement also includes offset elements and firm, fixed-cost pricing.
The FMS contract includes munitions, training, aircraft certification and components including engines, electro-optical sensors and the fire control radar, which is optional. The DCS contract primarily consists of the aircraft (less engines/sensors), logistic support, spares and services.
A person closely associated with the deal says talks with the U.S. government concerning the FMS, and with Boeing on the DCS, already have started. "We expect the contract to be signed before the end of this financial year [March 31, 2013]," the person says.
Boeing offered its latest Block-III version of the Apache to India in 2009. Russia, which had fielded the Mi-28, announced late last year that it was out of the running after failing to meet several of the air force's technical requirements.
Boeing says the timing of deliveries will depend on the air force's specific requirements. According to the request for proposals, deliveries should start within 36 months of the contract signing.
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Good !
Now , make war on Pakistan
Enough of that artificial country , that early U.N abortion .
I hope to see that day that India overruns the whole damn place and reasserts that which is rightfully theirs
( all of Pak )
and yet cuts in the federal defense budget and a continuing weakness in its military helicopter business forced Sikorsky Aircraft Corp. to close its military completions center here in Big Flats at the end of the year with a loss of 570 jobs...
And Abdullah is about to be knocked over by AQ.
Wonderful way for Obama to deliver Apaches to AQ.
How ironic: Indians buy Apaches.....
Wonderful way for Obama to deliver Apaches to AQ.
What are you talking about ? This is I N D I A.
Lol. My bad.
Not Jordan.
UK abortion. It was a British decision. UN had nothing to do with it.
Lol. Not quite. I don’t know so many Indians, but I like the ones I know. But some of them have Portuguese names; i don’t even know how that works exactly.
Portugal used to have colonies in India - the last of them lasted until the 1960s.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portuguese_India
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