Thursday, September 26, 2019

Now that fighter jets are obsolete

Lockheed to begin supplying F-16 wings from Indian plant in 2020
Lockheed is bidding for a contract, estimated at more than $15 billion, to supply the Indian Air Force with 114 combat planes and has offered to shift its F-16 production line from the United States to India. It plans to build an upgraded version of the aircraft which it calls F-21.
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government is pushing a Make-in-India program under which it wants global firms, including in the defense sector, to set up manufacturing centers in India to build a domestic industrial base and create jobs.
Vivek Lall, vice president of Strategy and Business Development for Lockheed Martin Aeronautics, said the wings of all future F-16s that the company will sell worldwide will be produced in a joint venture with India’s Tata Advanced Systems in the southern city of Hyderabad.
Meanwhile, Lockheed is in a rush to develop defense drones. I been there, I know what orders came from the Pentagon.

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