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India to Get 6 More C-130J from U.S.

: Dec 30, 2013 - : 8:45 am

India and the U.S. have inked another mega contract for six additional C-130J “Super Hercules” aircraft.
The letter of offer and acceptance for the six new four-engine C-130Js, which will be delivered within three years, was signed last week under the U.S. government’s foreign military sales (FMS) program.
IAF already has six C-130Js tactical airlift aircraft, ordered for $962 million in 2007, which are based at the Hindon airbase on the outskirts of Delhi. The six new C-130Js, also configured for “special operations” as the first six, will be based at Panagarh in West Bengal.
The deal is expected to cost $1.01 billion.
The C-130J, as also the bigger C-17 Globemaster-III strategic airlift aircraft acquired from the US, can even land at a small forward airbase on a semi-prepared runway. Crucial to counter China’s massive build-up of border infrastructure, this capability was amply demonstrated when IAF landed a C-130J on the Daulat Beg Oldi airstrip in eastern Ladakh, at an altitude of 16,614-feet just seven-km from the LAC, in August this year.
The U.S. has already bagged deals close to $10 billion over the last decade in the lucrative Indian defence market. The other deals on the anvil are the ones for 22 Apache attack helicopters, 15 Chinook heavy-lift choppers, four P-8I maritime patrol aircraft and 145 M-777 ultra-light howitzers, together worth another about $4 billion.

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