NEW DELHI: In a worry for Pakistan, India to ink $2.6 billion deal with USover purchase of advanced military Helicopters.
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi will give final approval to a $2.6billion deal for military helicopters from US defence firm Lockheed Martin,defence and industry sources said.
The Indian government is trying to pull out all the stops for Trump’supcoming trip in a bid to reaffirm strategic ties between the twocountries, which have been buffeted by sharp differences over trade, tocounter China.
India’s defence purchases from the United States have reached $17 billionsince 2007 as it has pivoted away from traditional supplier Russia, lookingto modernise its military and narrow the gap with China.
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Modi’s cabinet committee on security is expected to clear the purchase of24 MH-60R Seahawk helicopters for the Indian navy in the next two weeks, adefence official and an industry source briefed on the matter separatelytold Reuters.
“It’s a government-to-government deal, it is close,” said the industrysource.
