How US-made Chinook and Apache helicopters will add more firepower to Indian Armed Forces

[ashok321]

http://www.businessinsider.in/How-U...e-firepower-to-India/articleshow/53926015.cms

Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar, currently on his second visit to the US in eight months, will be visiting the Boeing's facility in Philadelphia on August 31 to get an update on the CH-47F Chinook heavy-lift helicopters being manufactured for India.

In order to scale up Indian Air Force capabilities, the government had last year placed order for 15 Chinook helicopters along with 22 AH-64E Apache Longbow attack helicopters, also being manufactured by Boeing.

The order is valued at over US $2.5 billion. Alongside, the private sector in India will benefit as the deal will bring around $600 million into the defence and aerospace sector as offset for the deal.

The Chinook helicopters are slated to be inducted into the Indian Air Force in 2019.

The US is currently the biggest supplier of weapons and military equipment to India, having won orders worth over $13 billion during the last seven years.

The induction of Apache attack and Chinook heavy lift helicopters will prove to be a game changer for the capabilities of the Indian Air Force.

 

[ebrahym]

The US is currently the biggest supplier of weapons and military equipment to India, having won orders worth over $13 billion during the last seven years.

WTF
@PARIKRAMA

 

[Skull and Bones]

WTF
@PARIKRAMA

Apache, Chinook, P-8i, C-130 , M777 howitzer.

 

[John Reese]

Apache, Chinook, P-8i, C-130 , M777 howitzer.

Add Globe master ,C-130J

 

[Skull and Bones]

Add Globe master ,C-130J

Globe master production has ended, talks are there to acquire existing platforms from US service.

 

[ebrahym]

Apache, Chinook, P-8i, C-130 , M777 howitzer.

The US is currently the biggest supplier of weapons and military equipment to India, having won orders worth over $13 billion during the last seven years.

how???
nevermind , giving current course that is bound to happen

 

[Skull and Bones]

how???
nevermind , giving current course that is bound to happen

Prospective deals with Russia could be even larger.

In 2017-18, Russia will be our largest defense partner, for orders of S-400, 3 Talwar Class Frigates, Sukhoi Upgrade program and additional nuclear submarine.

 

[ashok321]

Defence logistics pact between India, US signed without national consensus: Congress

http://www.firstpost.com/world/defe...hout-national-consensus-congress-2983878.html

Insisting that signing of the defence logistics sharing pact with the US is a "fundamental departure" from India's policy of 'strategic military neutrality', Congress on Tuesday demanded the contents of the agreement be placed in public domain as the Modi government has acted "unilaterally without national consensus".

 

[sathya]

Congress wants national consensus ? Then they better perform well and win more seats.
As of now nobody is taking them seriously , both quality wise and quantity .

 

[wiseone2]

Chinook are not lethal choppers. They are heavy transport choppers

 

[Indrajit]

Chinook are not lethal choppers. They are heavy transport choppers

The quality of reporting & the use of language in journalism is on a one way path down the toilet .

 

[wiseone2]

The quality of reporting & the use of language in journalism is on a one way path down the toilet .

They are more important and useful than the Apaches

 

[Indrajit]

They are more important and useful than the Apaches

Who? The journalists..?? The Chinooks are certainly useful but to use the term firepower in their context is to be lazy in the profession of journalism.

 

[wiseone2]

Who? The journalists..?? The Chinooks are certainly useful but to use the term firepower in their context is to be lazy in the profession of journalism.

The chinooks are more useful than the apaches. good journalists are better than both.