Posted on 06/19/2017 6:22:03 AM PDT by C19fan
Lockheed Martin signed an agreement with India's Tata Advanced Systems on Monday to produce F-16 fighter planes in India, pressing ahead with a plan to shift its Fort Worth, Texas plant to win billions of dollars worth of order from the Indian military.
India's air force needs hundreds of aircraft to replace its Soviet-era fleet, but Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government has said foreign suppliers would have to make the planes in India with a local partner to help build a domestic industrial base and cut outright imports.
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Exporting technology and processes, as well as jobs. The worthless congress needs to stop this now.
:: India’s Tata Advanced Systems ::
Hmmmmm...I have to investigated these “Advanced Tata System” results. I’m a player if they are large Tata.
I think they should call them “Tatas” after the new manufacturer. Agreed?
Trump Making India Great?
I doubt that President Trump had much, if anything to do with this deal. I suspect it has been in the works for quite some time and the government's involvement most likely was from holdovers, possibly "Deep Staters".
This smells of a typical Lockheed deal.
Possibly a name change to "LackHeed" would be in order.
Nothing new, you want to sell it in India, you need to make it in India. Read that somewhere a number of years ago.
Sounds like a good philosophy. The US should respond likewise.
F-16 is 70’s technology, there are always offsets for FMS.
Would you prefer France or Russia do a deal?
The US F16 line was shutting down for good. This was the only way to keep it going as a Lockheed venture to make cheap planes competitive with what China or Russia chug out.
Wow. Contract rhem to make F16 TaTas Tshirts!
Also it is really common for a forging buyer to specific the planes be ‘built in country’.
This is just that, plus the US line shutting down. Want them made here? Lobby congress to buy more F-16s. Otherwise no dice.
We’re not building anymore F-16’s in the US, period. Yes it would be great to build them here and sell them to India but they’re not fools.
Or would you prefer US companies not make money overseas at all?
Too easy for Lockheed to move more “business” - production lines overseas once they have a trained workforce and facilities and suppliers. I suppose you must be one of those lies that don’t care if American workers lose their jobs and our technology and manufacturing techniques are shipped to India so the Lockheed Martin big shots can get bigger bonuses.
What American worker is losing their job here? We’re taking their money and letting them build a 1970s era plane. And newsflash, because we let them have this, they’ve been buying 10’s of billions of dollars worth of AMERICAN MADE military hardware with an almost certainty of a lot more to come.
Not "letting them build" - teaching them to build, giving them the technology and manufacturing methods for a seventies era aircraft that is still among the world's elite. Make no mistake, establishing a complete aircraft production line in India, regardless of the CURRENT aircraft being produced, is a very large step toward India taking over the aerospace industry.
Unlike you and your DC morons, I worked in Advanced Manufacturing at Lockheed for eleven years, and it takes very skilled specialized production workers to build aircraft, especially fighters. Once they have the skills and a developed workforce, do you not think that they will undercut US aerospace companies?
I just clicked for the Tatas.
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