F-22 Raptor for India?

[ni8mare]

http://www.reuters.com/article/india-boeing-superhornet-idUSKCN0VC0IB


U.S. aircraft maker Boeing Co is in a "conversation" on manufacturing its F/A-18 Super Hornet fighter jet in India, Chief Executive Officer Dennis Muilenburg was quoted on Wednesday as saying on his first visit to the country.

"We see the Super Hornet as an opportunity ... to tie directly into the 'Make in India' strategy," Muilenburg told the Hindustan Times in an interview whose authenticity was confirmed by the company. Prime Minister Narendra Modi's 'Make in India' drive is designed to expand India's industrial base.

Boeing was willing to back the project with billions of dollars in investment to India meet its operational needs, according to Muilenburg's comments in the interview.

India is locked in talks with France's Dassault Aviation SA to buy 36 French-built Rafale combat jets at a price said to be close to $200 million apiece.

But an earlier tender to buy 126 Rafales collapsed.

Plane makers are queuing up to fill the shortfall with revised offers, stressing their readiness to locate production in India, with Saab AB of Sweden also pushing its single-engine Gripen aircraft.

The twin-engine Super Hornet was eliminated in India's original tender for Medium Multi-Role Combat Aircraft (MMRCA), however, and the future of its production facility in St Louis is uncertain.

"I would not say there is an official order. This is a conversation we are having right now," Muilenburg was quoted by the Hindustan Times as saying.

Muilenburg also flagged the F-22 Raptor, a fifth-generation fighter jointly developed with Lockheed Martin Corp, as a future sales prospect for India, calling it "an area of future investment for which we are interested".



(Reporting by Douglas Busvine; Editing by Kenneth Maxwell)

 

[ni8mare]

@Abingdonboy @PARIKRAMA @SrNair @anant_s @nair @MilSpec @mkb95 @ranjeet @sarjenprabhu @Levina @Parul @knight11 @Skull and Bones @Taygibay @nik22 @The_Sidewinder @danish_vij @cerberus

 

[Fenrir]

Wait... so the CEO of Boeing is going to sell a Lockheed Martin product under the auspice of Make in India. Boeing makes subsystems for the F-22, like training equipment and parts of the wings, It's an LM airframe and design though:

Lockheed Martin is the prime contractor and was responsible for the majority of the airframe, weapon systems, and final assembly of the F-22, while program partner Boeing provided the wings, aft fuselage, avionics integration, and training systems.

Boeing can't do sh*t without LM and the US congresses approval - which has been reluctant to even provide the F-22 to Japan.

Cool, now would anyone like my neighbors car?

 

[thesolar65]

@Ankit Kumar, See?? I was sarcastic, but seems MOD/Media is making us all.........

 

[45'22']

I dont think so

 

[haviZsultan]

With a traitorous ally like America anything is possible-as it was when the Americans signed a nuke deal with India the exact liking of which they refused to provide us.

We should have cleared terms of engagement. An alliance with Pakistan should mean no relations of America with India.

 

[C130]

lmao what

 

[thesolar65]

Abe, Yeh ho kya raha hai??

 

[C130]

With a traitorous ally like America anything is possible-as it was when the Americans signed a nuke deal with India the exact liking of which they refused to provide us.

We should have cleared terms of engagement. An alliance with Pakistan should mean no relations of America with India.

do you not have a ounce of common sense

 

[Tameem]

Abe, Yeh ho kya raha hai??

Circus......

 

[Muhammad Omar]

me kahin sapna to ni dekh rha

 

[Tipu7]

I NO LONGER WANT TO LIVE ON THIS PLANET.....................

 

[salmanACCA]

Am i again using PDF while asleep or is it another indian supa pawa stuff

 

[ni8mare]

Wait... so the CEO of Boeing is going to sell a Lockheed Martin product under the auspice of Make in India. Boeing makes subsystems for the F-22, like training equipment and parts of the wings, it can't do sh*t without LM and the US congresses approval.

Lockheed Martin is the prime contractor and was responsible for the majority of the airframe, weapon systems, and final assembly of the F-22, while program partner Boeing provided the wings, aft fuselage, avionics integration, and training systems.

Cool, now would anyone like my neighbors car?

Americans are trolling us.........here its boeing chief

 

[haviZsultan]

do you not have a ounce of common sense

Did America not sign a nuke deal with India which it refused to sign with us? Why the differential treatment. I thought we were allies? Or alliance means nothing to you as other countries are just stepping stones on your path to glory?