India will buy one more C-17 Globesmaster-III strategic airlift aircraft from the US for around Rs 2,100 crore, the proposal for which was among the Rs 9,300 crore worth of military projects approved by the defence ministry on Friday.
Apart from the solitary C-17, which will add to the 10 such aircraft already inducted by the IAF under a $4.1 billion deal inked with the US in 2011, the Manohar Parrikar-led defence acquisitions council also accorded acceptance of necessity (AoN) to the Rs 5,500 crore procurement of six multi-mission maritime surveillance aircraft for Coast Guard.
The other modernisation projects to get AoNs were the Rs 1,265 crore procurement of 1,500 indigenously designed and developed modern NBC (nuclear, biological, chemical) protection systems to be fitted on the Army's infantry combat vehicles (the Russian-origin BMP-IIs) and Rs 419 crore order for 55 indigenous three-dimensional low-level lightweight radars for Army and IAF.
23/12/16 Rajat Pandit/The Times Of India
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Apart from the solitary C-17, which will add to the 10 such aircraft already inducted by the IAF under a $4.1 billion deal inked with the US in 2011, the Manohar Parrikar-led defence acquisitions council also accorded acceptance of necessity (AoN) to the Rs 5,500 crore procurement of six multi-mission maritime surveillance aircraft for Coast Guard.
The other modernisation projects to get AoNs were the Rs 1,265 crore procurement of 1,500 indigenously designed and developed modern NBC (nuclear, biological, chemical) protection systems to be fitted on the Army's infantry combat vehicles (the Russian-origin BMP-IIs) and Rs 419 crore order for 55 indigenous three-dimensional low-level lightweight radars for Army and IAF.
23/12/16 Rajat Pandit/The Times Of India
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