In order to additional enhance the safety of its VVIP planes, India has signed a deal value Rs 1200-crore with the United States for purchasing safety suites. This will defend the 2 VVIP planes which might be used to ferry the President and the Prime Minister of the nation.
Reports citing sources near the matter counsel that the deal was signed across the two-day go to of the US President Donald Trump to India. The new self-protection suites for the plane come within the type of infrared and digital warfare countermeasures suites, countermeasure shelling out techniques and missile warning sensors.
The two planes will arrive in India and can be put out on the sphere across the center of subsequent 12 months. The Indian Air Force has made a number of visits to the Boeing facility the place they ceaselessly contributed with the progress and growth of the plane. Additionally, because the plane now comes with new refined gear and is owned by the Indian Air Force, it is going to have army classification.
US authorities which sanctioned the delicate suites for India has acknowledged that the brand new defence system will facilitate a extra strong functionality into areas of elevated missile threats on the planes. During the two-day go to by Donald Trump, US and India had signed offers for 24 MH60 Romeo multirole helicopters for the Navy and 6 new Apache assault choppers for the Army.
This post was last modified on March 6, 2020 7:06 am