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Is India getting another 4 C-130J Planes?

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Is India getting another 4 C-130J Planes?

Lockheed Martin is close to securing an order for four C-130Js from an undisclosed Asian customer.

The company "recently" won the tender and is in negotiations with the country, says Jack Crisler, Lockheed Martin's director for business development. The deal should be concluded "in the coming months", he adds.

Lockheed Martin has a backlog of 95 C-130s, but it is still able to offer 2013 delivery slots, he adds.

Crisler says Lockheed Martin has in advertently benefited from the delays in the Airbus Military A400M programme.

"There are only two partners in the A400M programme that we are not talking to right now," he says, adding that some A40OM customers are looking at the C-130J to provide interim lift.

He adds that Lockheed Martin has held discussions with South Africa, which has cancelled its orders for the A400M.

SINGAPORE 2010: Lockheed finalising C-130J order from new Asian customer
 
If India was getting this, it would have been all over Indian media.

The article says undislosed Asian customer. It can be Pakistan as well as Sri Lanka.

GB
 
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If India was getting this, it would have been all over Indian media.

The article says undislosed Asian customer. It can be Pakistan as well as Sri Lanka.

GB
Also they are still in negotiations about the order of the first 6 with some open questions left.
 
Also they are still in negotiations about the order of the first 6 with some open questions left.

Orders are placed.

First one is due in 2011.

GB
 
Hi Sirji

I believe its UAE... they were looking for some 12 of them and I think now they have settled for 4 and the deal will be signed in Defexpo 2010
 
Hi Sirji

I believe its UAE... they were looking for some 12 of them and I think now they have settled for 4 and the deal will be signed in Defexpo 2010

Anything is possible.

However India won't be signing any secret deals as far as hardware like C-130 is concerned.

So no point in speculating.

GB
 
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