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Govt nod to mega armed drone deal with US
June 16, 2023
|The Morning Standard
Defence Acquisition Council approves 30 MQ-9Bs from America; 12 for Indian Navy, the rest for Army & IAF
AN Indo-US deal to acquire Armed Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) from the United States was approved by the Defence Acquisition Council (DAC) on Thursday.
Defence sources confirmed to this newspaper that the DAC under the chairmanship of Defence Minister Rajnath Singh approved the proposal. The DAC is the highest decision-making body in the Ministry of Defence.
The deal, announced before Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s scheduled visit to the US, is to procure around 30 armable MQ-9B drones from General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA-ASI). Of this, 12 is for the Indian Navy and the rest to be equally given to the Army and Air Force.
The deal has to be further approved by the US Congress. This could be the second important defence deal after the much-discussed co-production of the GE-F 414 turboprop engines for the upgraded Tejas Mark 2.
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