{"id":193190,"date":"2009-01-11T07:48:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-11T12:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/01\/11\/india-buys-8-p-8is-for-2-1b\/"},"modified":"2009-01-11T07:48:00","modified_gmt":"2009-01-11T12:48:00","slug":"india-buys-8-p-8is-for-2-1b","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/01\/11\/india-buys-8-p-8is-for-2-1b\/","title":{"rendered":"India Buys 8 P-8I&#8217;s for $2.1B"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img75.imageshack.us\/img75\/4021\/300pxmma3312402he7.jpg\" style=\"margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px; float: left; cursor: pointer;\" \/>It&#8217;s the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.india-defence.com\/reports-4113\">largest defense contract ever between India and the US<\/a> for 8 of the Boeing 737 derived maritime patrol and anti-submarine aircraft.<\/p>\n<p>They will replace a similar number of Tupolev-142Ms &#8220;Bear&#8221; turboprops.<\/p>\n<p>They will carry sonar buoys, depth charges, torpedos, and Harpoon missiles for use against surface combatants.<\/p>\n<p>Considering that the next largest Indo-US deal was a  $962 million contract for 6 C-130J, this is a step up, both in size and technology transfer.<\/p>\n<p>That being said, the US is still a bit player, with Russia, France , and Israel dominating the defense import market to India.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s the largest defense contract ever between India and the US for 8 of the Boeing 737 derived maritime patrol and anti-submarine aircraft. They will replace a similar number of Tupolev-142Ms &#8220;Bear&#8221; turboprops. They will carry sonar buoys, depth charges, torpedos, and Harpoon missiles for use against surface combatants. Considering that the next largest Indo-US &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1007,1008,1161,1151],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-193190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aviation","category-defense-procurement","category-naval","category-south-asia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193190"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193190"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193190\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}