Arjun,
Why are you immediately convinced when a gora named CRAPON tells you something?

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hello inbred retard...see the difference between india and pakiland?

not even in the same league...period..

India to get more sophisticated F-16s than Pakistan

* Aircraft manufacturers place bids for $10bn deal
* Lockheed Martin favours jointly developing technologies with India

By Iftikhar Gilani

NEW DELHI: Lockheed Martin has offered India more sophisticated F-16 combat jets than it had been supplying to Pakistan.
While submitting bids for the $10 billion deal to supply 126 fighter aircraft to the Indian Air Force (IAF), Lockheed Martin President Ralph D Heath said on Monday that the company had offered the F-16IN plane to India, which is “much beyond Indian expectations”.
Replying to a question about advanced technology being given to Pakistan as well, he said the F-16IN version of the jet would have “a multitude of cutting-edge technologies” not offered anywhere else.
Officials of Lockheed Martin and US Embassy visited the Indian Defence Ministry’s office to submit bids.
Bidders: Seattle-based Boeing, which is offering F-18 Superhornets, submitted its 7,000-page bid on Thursday. Other bidders are the European Aeronautic Defence and Space Company (EADS) with its Eurofighter Typhoon, Russian Aircraft Corporation offering MiG-35, French company Dassault with its Rafale, and Swedish firm SAAB hawking its Gripen JAS-39.
Under the conditions of the IAF’s request for proposal, 18 of the selected jet fighters would be bought off the shelf and the remaining 108 would be delivered through the government’s Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) under licensed production with the Indian industry.
The new technologies incorporated in F-16IN include APG-80 Active Electronically Scanned Array Radar, GE’s F110-132A engine for powerful thrust, a large weapon inventory, advanced electronic warfare suite and fuel tanks to extend the range of the combat jet.
Joint technologies: Asked whether Lockheed Martin would be jointly developing the fifth-generation fighter aircraft with India, the company’s president said his company was interested in jointly developing technologies with India.
“We advocate the path of [India’s] logical transition from F-16s to the F-35s, beyond the MMRCA (medium multi-role combat aircraft) requirements,” he added.
The only two fifth-generation aircraft in different stages of development in the world today – F-22s and F-35s – are the products of Lockheed Martin.
He said that assembly lines to produce the F-16 aircraft had been set up in Turkey, Korea, Belgium and the Netherlands.
Indian Defence Minister AK Antony informed Lok Sabha that French Dassault had signed a deal worth one billion euros to upgrade India’s existing 51 Mirage multi-role fighters. Antony said the request for proposal had been issued to Dassault on April 9 after clearance from the Cabinet Committee on Security.
This is India’s second major deal in the recent week to upgrade its aircraft. Earlier, the IAF had entered into an agreement with Russia’s MIG-RAC to upgrade its 63 MIG-29 aircraft in a deal worth $964 million.

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inbred retard: I'm sure the whole business of pakiland being treated like a raggedy old bitch must be painful...

or did one of your jihadi nephews/neices get killed by a drone?

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Hey manassas Park Cabbie,

This is what Michael Krepon said Abt us-india nuke deal...hehehe....

An expert attached with a leading American think tank has ruled out the possibility of India and the United States finalizing a significant bilateral nuclear deal, in spite of several rounds of negotiations since its signing on July 18, 2005.

Michael Krepon, President Emeritus of the Washington based Henry L Stimson Center, said in an interview with Asian News International (ANI), that it would be next to impossible for the Bush Administration to agree with the demands being put forward by the Government of India vis-à-vis the 123 Agreement, the bilateral part of the Indo-US nuclear deal, that puts nuclear testing restrictions on New Delhi.

"We (the US) can't do the things that the Government of India wants, and even if we did, all the other people - the Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG) - they're not going to say yes either. And so, you know, I'm not sure," said Krepon.

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