Re:Why America Needs India’s Rockets
by azernik on Thursday November 03, 2016 @12:56PM
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It builds the empennages in India, for integration with the full assembly in the US.
And in any case both of those are less sensitive technologies - a transport plane that other countries sell equivalents to, and a previous-generation fighter plane for which India is in any case the largest expected purchaser (the production lines in the US are being wound down, and the move to India would be part of a purchase by the IAF), and to etch the US has already approved sales.
We wouldn't sell India a Minuteman, so we're sure as hell not going to find their development of an equivalent.
And in any case both of those are less sensitive technologies - a transport plane that other countries sell equivalents to, and a previous-generation fighter plane for which India is in any case the largest expected purchaser (the production lines in the US are being wound down, and the move to India would be part of a purchase by the IAF), and to etch the US has already approved sales.
We wouldn't sell India a Minuteman, so we're sure as hell not going to find their development of an equivalent.