'Make in India' extend: Boeing & Lockheed Martin offer to manufacture F16 and F/A 18 jets
Author yuvamind
NEW DELHI: In the first government facilitated talks on producing an American fighter jet in India, rivals Boeing and Lockheed Martin jointly met top defence ministry officials in the capital on Tuesday, offering to locally manufacture the
F16 ' Super Viper ' and a customized
F/A 18 ' Super Hornet ' for Indian Air Force requirements.
The formal meetings, held in the presence of Pentagon ' s Director for International Cooperation Keith Webster at South Block, is the first step towards a possible foreign military sales (FMS) proposal for producing American jets under the Make in India initiative.