Posted on 10/16/2015 4:59:09 AM PDT by sukhoi-30mki
American aviation giant Boeing on Friday said it plans to assemble either its Chinook heavy-lift helicopters or Apache attack choppers in India even as it gears to offer the possibility of manufacturing a fighter jet aircraft in the country.
“We are much closer to have assembly (of) one of those aeroplanes (choppers) here. That will play out and that’s our strategy. This market is too important, capability is too high and commitment is significant and that kind of commitment is important for us,” Boeing Chairman Jim McNerney McNerney said.
India had last month signed a contract for 15 Chinook and 22 Apache helicopters. “Large sections of the Chinook fuselage are already manufactured in India and discussions are ongoing with our Indian partners to make Apache parts,” Boeing India President Pratyush Kumar had then said.
At a seminar organised here by Boeing, McNerney hoped that India will over the next couple of years call for bids for a fighter aircraft.
“Our approach is going to be to take a current, state-of-the-art fighter and bid. The quantities are uncertain...Our bid will include a proposal to make the plane here,” he said.
“The value to India is a very modern production system integrated to make a very sophisticated machine. That kind of industrial base capability is as important as the fighter itself. These modern manufacturing techniques can go into many different industries,” he said.
Several foreign aircraft manufacturers have offered to build their fighter planes in India after the government scrapped the global tender for 126 medium multi-role combat aircraft (MMRCA).
While India is in talks with France for a formal agreement for off-the-shelf purchase of 36 Rafale jets (two squadrons), Indian Air Force wants at least six more MMRCA-type squadrons.
The Boeing chairman also said that on the defence side, the Indian and US governments have to decide the issue of technology sharing.
“Leaving that aside, and generally speaking, the more cutting edge the technology, then less the sharing will be,” he said even as he voiced support for ‘Make In India’.
Why not build it in America?
America seriously needs to bring back American manufacturing.
Now.
Oh Mr. Trump. You online today?
Because America’s broke and we can’t afford to buy these. Boeing is going to where the market is.
India and the US will become very, very close as soon as we flush the floater down the pipes of the White hut!
Just because we are “broke” does not mean we ship off the jobs too! Maybe, just maybe this is a reason we are broke? There are lots of cargo ships just dying to make loads just sitting around anchored in shallow bays just rusting away. Just go to Google Earth and zoom in on the waters around Singapore.
Thanks to our lauded Uni-Party Government.
I posted the article on his FB page.
“Because America’s broke and we can’t afford to buy these. Boeing is going to where the market is.”
Yet we have plenty for $400 a gallon “green” fuel for the navy.
http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-green-military-20131118-story.html
This^
India is deeply disappointed in The Won and they way he has treated them. They long for the days of W, because he respected them, and wasn’t (generally) sucking up to governments who opposed India. The close US relationship with Pakistan is really the only fly in the ointment. If the US manages to get a real adult back into the White House, India is ready and waiting to become a close US ally.
Next week we’ll read how China will build our next aircraft carrier and Pakistan will make our next set of ICBM’s. It’s funny, in 2016, the democrats will blame Bush for all this, even though Obama has been the president for 7 years....
And it is cheap at $400.00 a gallon.
India-made Chinooks will not require rotors, as the ashram-trained flight crew will simply meditate, and levitate the aircraft skyward on a stream of transcendental consciousness.
Or, “We must curry favor with those who favor curry”.
;^)
More American Akins and technology going out the window.
I don’t mind seeing India buying either of those helicopters but the construction and the technology to build them should stay here.
We’re only screwing our selves in the long run.
It was pretty see-through. The real goal was to cut production at the Erie plant and just have the Chinese make their junk locomotives and send them here.
Really.
At least one other important person is asking the same question.
Thank God America is awakening.
Yes, you are so correct.
I recall when the economy started going “global” and every sentence had the new buzz word “global” in it. I believe it started some time around when the free trade agreement went into effect with Canada.
That was also about he time Walmart quit showing pride by selling made in USA stuff and went Chicom, along with the rest of the country.
My point is, back then I did not think any of that was a good idea. Listening to Rush back then, he backed it and explained why globalism was a good idea.
It never was a good idea, but even if we could get manufacturing back, the younger generations are too lazy to work.
Outsourcing of American Technology, American Money, American Jobs and American military apparatus. Gee just open the borders and welcome the terrorists in and supply them with the weapons to kill Americans right in their living rooms. What a country! A bunch of idiots in charge!
Yep... those helicopters aren’t ever going to fly in our Air Force.
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