The Anti-Submarine Warfare Sonobuoys will be integrated with Indian Navy’s Romeo helicopters. US says this proposed $52.8 mn sale will help strengthen US-India strategic relationship.
The two helicopters will be delivered to India by the US govt around the time Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be on an official visit to the country later this month, it is learnt.
The sale of 24 MH-60 'Romeos', which will cost India $2.6 billion, comes 19 years after Indian Navy moved proposal to acquire medium multi-role helicopters.
The Indian military’s current fleet of choppers is ageing and inadequate. It’s estimated that over the next 10 years, India needs more than 1,000 helicopters.
In Episode 1544 of CutTheClutter, Editor-in-Chief Shekhar Gupta looks at some top economists pointing to the pitfalls of ‘currency nationalism’ with data from 1991 to 2004.
Using this technology, IDF carried out fully robotic combat missions, drastically reducing risk to Israeli troops. The robotic combat task force also enhanced situational awareness.
While we talk much about our military, we don’t put our national wallet where our mouth is. Nobody is saying we should double our defence spending, but current declining trend must be reversed.
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