India, US to ink new defence framework on Wednesday

[anant_s]

The new framework will be inked during US defence secretary Ashton Carter's India visit, on June 3, 2016. (AP photo)

NEW DELHI: India and the US will ink their new 10-year defence framework on Wednesday to chart out the road ahead for further expansion in bilateral defence ties, ranging from collaboration in maritime security, joint exercises and intelligence-sharing to co-development and co-production of military technologies.

The framework will be inked in meeting between defence minister Manohar Parrikar and his visiting US counterpart Ashton Carter on Wednesday evening.

Carter is also slated to meet PM Narendra Modi, external affairs minister Sushma Swaraj and national security advisor Ajit Doval earlier on that day after he arrives in New Delhi from a visit to the Eastern Naval Command in Vizag. But the long-pending deals for 22 Apache attack and 15 Chinook heavy-lift helicopters, together worth around $2.5 billion, will take some more time to be actually signed.

With the slow process of approvals in the finance ministry, the helicopter-manufacturer Boeing has now extended the validity of its bids to June 30. As for the new framework to replace the earlier one inked in 2005, it was finalized during the visit of President Barack Obama to India in January.

A key new element in it is the incorporation of the "Defence Trade and Technology Initiative" (DTTI), which involves co-development and co-production of military technologies ranging from aircraft carrier launch systems to mini spy drones, as reported by TOI earlier. Carter, incidentally, had spearheaded the entire DTTI mechanism when he was earlier serving as the deputy secretary of defence at Pentagon.

Under it, India and the US have agreed to begin with four relatively modest "pathfinder projects" as well as explore development of aircraft carrier technologies and jet engines. The pathfinder products are the Raven mini unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), "roll-on, roll-off" mission modules for C-130J Super Hercules aircraft, mobile electric hybrid power sources, and chemical-biological warfare protection gear for soldiers.

The US is also offering the Scorpion light attack aircraft which can be used as an intermediate jet trainer (IJT) by the IAF. This has gained traction since Hindustan Aeronautics has till now failed to deliver the indigenous Sitara IJT, which was first sanctioned in 1999, as reported by TOI earlier.

India, US to ink new defence framework on Wednesday - The Times of India

 

[AMDR]

The agreements reached regarding the aircraft carrier tech will be particularly interesting. We will see come Wednesday

 

[anant_s]

The agreements reached regarding the aircraft carrier tech will be particularly interesting. We will see come Wednesday

Absolutely, after President Obama's visit, there are a lot of hopes.
Navy has a lot of gain if US agrees for joint production in certain key technological areas.
Navy's wishlist includes F 35, E2D, EMALS and if these fructify, it will be, as they say, Biggest bang for your buck.

Also i hope US co-operation in field of submarines grow (i'm not sure why but this is almost a blank area).

 

[VeeraBahadur]

Hahahahahahahaha you both can't control china LOL ... do whatever you want.... India is circled by china...

Stop piggybacking China eveytime and try to grow your own spine.

One more thing , how did your super brain concluded that these weapons are not meant to harm Pakistan ?? Becoming confronting China , we would like to take care of her small side kick.

 

[Sipahi]

Stop piggybacking China eveytime and try to grow your own spine.

One more thing , how did your super brain concluded that these weapons are not meant to harm Pakistan ?? Becoming confronting China , we would like to take care of her small side kick.

so why don't you ask modi to check our spine once more as was saying in election campaign ????? however we will break your spine once we get rid of your puppy's called TTP and BLA.

 

[Ajai Ghale]

so why don't you ask modi to check our spine once more as was saying in election campaign ????? however we will break your spine once we get rid of your puppy's called TTP and BLA.

My much forex does Pakistan has ?

 

[Sipahi]

My much forex does Pakistan has ?

We might don't have Forex as Banya India has but we are not short of guts or equipments to take down India with us

 

[Sipahi]

These Smiley won't save you from humiliation, you have been punished and humiliated in the past by India and we are doing it now and we shall do it in future.

You should know your worth as a Pakistani which is Zero

Acha.... Indians worth is in Minus then

 

[AugenBlick]

Hahahahahahahaha you both can't control china LOL ... do whatever you want.... India is circled by china...

Yes these weapons will only be used against china....they will never be used against pakistan

 

[Ajai Ghale]

Acha.... Indians worth is in Minus then

Oh sorry

I misquoted you you are west Pakistani,come back when your country has $ 20 billion forex