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obongtunji:
Not like Euro bond, China bond my country is pursuing as if the life of this country depend on it. With this deal Indian government will get to train there citizens, they will also give employment to the citizens directly and indirectly. This is the best deal I've heard in recent time.
Moderator, please do the needful may be it will get to the appropriate people.

Dont expect this 8n front page. Its not about tonto dike. Os so so ans so buy car

New Delhi: India is offering to buy hundreds of fighter planes from foreign manufacturers — as long as the jets are made in India and with a local partner, air force officials say.
A deal for 200 single-engine planes produced in India — which the air force says could rise to 300 as it fully phases out ageing Soviet-era aircraft — could be worth anything from $13-$15 billion, experts say, potentially one of the country’s biggest military aircraft deals.
After a deal to buy high-end Rafale planes from France’s Dassault was scaled back to just 36 jets last month, the Indian Air Force is desperately trying to speed up other acquisitions and arrest a fall in operational strength, now a third less than required to face both China and Pakistan.
But Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s administration wants any further military planes to be built in India with an Indian partner to kickstart a domestic aircraft industry, and end an expensive addiction to imports.
Lockheed Martin said it is interested in setting up a production line for its F-16 plane in India for not just the Indian military, but also for export.
And Sweden’s Saab has offered a rival production line for its Gripen aircraft, setting up an early contest for one of the biggest military plane deals in play.
“The immediate shortfall is 200. That would be the minimum we would be looking at,” said an air officer briefed on the Make-in-India plans under which a foreign manufacturer will partner local firms to build the aircraft with technology transfer.
India’s defence ministry has written to several companies asking if they would be willing to set up an assembly line for single-engine fighter planes in India and the amount of technology transfer that would happen, another government source said.
“We are testing the waters, testing the foreign firms’ willingness to move production here and to find out their expectations,” the person said.
Operational gaps
India’s air force originally planned for 126 Rafale twin-engine fighters from Dassault, but the two sides could not agree on the terms of local production with a state-run Indian firm and settled for 36 planes in a fly-away condition.
Adding to the military’s problems is India’s three-decade effort to build a single-engine fighter of its own which was meant to be the backbone of the air force. Only two of those Light Combat Aircraft, called Tejas, have been delivered to the air force which has ordered 140 of them.
The Indian Air Force is down to 32 operational squadrons compared with the 45 it has said are necessary, and in March the vice chief Air Marshal B.S. Dhanoa told parliament’s defence committee that it didn’t have the operational strength to fight a two front war against China and Pakistan.
Jet makers respond
Saab said it was ready to not only produce its frontline Gripen fighter in India, but help build a local aviation industry base.
“We are very experienced in transfer of technology — our way of working involves extensive cooperation with our partners to establish a complete ecosystem, not just an assembly line,” said Jan Widerström, chairman and managing director, Saab India Technologies.
He confirmed Saab had received the letter from the Indian government seeking a fourth generation fighter. A source close to the company said that while there was no minimum order set in stone for it to lay down a production line, they would expect to build at least 100 planes at the facility.
Lockheed Martin said it had responded to the defence ministry’s letter with an offer to transfer the entire production of its F-16 fighter to India.
“Exclusive F-16 production in India would make India home to the world’s only F-16 production facility, a leading exporter of advanced fighter aircraft, and offer Indian industry the opportunity to become an integral part of the world’s largest fighter aircraft supply chain,” Abhay Paranjape, National Executive for Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Business Development in India said in an email.
US top supplier
Lockheed’s offer comes on the back of expanding US-India military ties in which Washington has emerged as India’s top arms supplier in recent years, ousting old ally Russia.
Earlier this year Boeing also offered India its twin-engine F/A-18 Hornets, but the level of technology transfer was not clear.
India has never previously attempted to build a modern aircraft production line, whether military or civilian. State-run Hindustan Aeronautics (HAL) has assembled Russian combat jets including the Su-30, but these are under licensed production.
“We have never had control over technology. This represents the most serious attempt to build a domestic base. A full or a near-full tech transfer lays the ground for further development,” said retired Indian air marshal M. Matheswaran, a former adviser at HAL.
He said the Indian government would be looking at producing at least 200 fighters, and then probably some more, to make up for the decades of delay in modernising the air force.

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iyke926:
You are an animal for spewing thrash. You last visited Ebonyi state probably in early 2000. Things have changed.

The mugu u quoted is an afonja feom the sawt waste Brown roof Republic

maclatunji:
Some people's basis for opposing President Muhammadu Buhari is that they are Igbo and he is from Katsina.

They have aligned themselves with organizations like IPOB and NigerDelta militants which they see as vehicles to execute their opposition.

However, there is an emerging trend that threatens the reality of people like this. It is the fact that the policies of President Muhammadu Buhari's government are beginning to favour the Southeast (Igbos). For example, Innoson is getting a $1 billion deal (https://www.nairaland.com/3424462/innoson-motors-signs-deal-china) and Aba bootmakers are getting contracts from the military (https://www.nairaland.com/3431809/army-orders-made-aba-boots).


Hence, bigoted Igbos are not finding it easy to antagonize these developments without being exposed as 'enemies of progress'.

You must be slow if you think buhari ve anything to do with innoson expanding his business.... So because of d courtesy call

chimaobinelson:
Akpa amu buhari

Dont u ever call me buhari again. Tufiakwa gu

BeeBeeOoh:
Lukat this uncle-guyman

How many likes for our Amiable & Swagallicious Governor..

Aswear. I'm loving obiano dress sense.

ring leaders of the syndicate identified as Taiwo Adeleke, 47, and Kayode Oseni, 52,”


Name checked. . Yorubad and ritual

chimaobinelson:
Three thing that u cant do 1. you cant count your hair 2.you cant wash ur eyebrow with soap 3 you cant breath while bringing out your tongue.




please!!, Ewu ,bingo retract your tongue and stop doing like a dog!!!, *must you practice every thing

Mumu

seunlly:
Bleep haters.. I hala u @ Juan mata....
























Do u think man city will no requalize

Bro no vex. Which one be requalize. U mean equalizer 2000

Unlimited22:
Pls don't forget u r playing man city.

Man utd 1 = man city 0

itel. king of 512mb ram

ezeegolimited30:
ordinary 11 yrs goto teaching hospital Nnewi, u will call dat woman a saint!

whats happening at Nnewi teaching hospital...... dont say qat u don't kno

patriotic9jaboy:
I'm sorry I'm neither of the above. Obviously u're mistaking me for another person. Have fun

omidina. i see u my nigga

Anambra is coming up....

BlackSeptember:
I stand with Fayose.


Where is patriotic9jaboy aka mrkayusfit aka joboorskill.

hol up. rw u saying mrkayusfit is patriotic9jaboy. so d marafaker deactivated his mrkayusfit account after his picture was let loose online. d hungry fat nigga dat was begging for help. wit his account number online. i still have ur picture dude. ur account number and names. even ur facebook. wat a shameless ugly marafaka..

dress biko

we siddon dey wait promised land

make await promised land.


oga mynd wan lock d thread. for one wit less comment

Perfecttouch:
you should be awarded the most senseless personalty of the year. Peeps like you have a way of showing how stupid they are online

e pain dis cone headed sawt wasteland brown roof cowardly republic afonja

Robert Mugabe

NOETHNICITY:
I got a simple question for u; where is the RICE?
Mind u not every non-bigot is an Afonja

big time bigot you re..

wristbangle:
Lol why should amosun buy your rice when ofada, the most delicious local rice in naija is here! . Na wa for my Ugwu brothers. Meanwhile I negotiated for your rice at onitsha market and the difference is little compare to imported rice which is 22k.

thought you guys said Anambra rice can only be found on d internet...

you mean chief afonja

eyeview:
Thank you for the correction my brother. I should have guessed when she showed evidence that they dont pay nepa bill where they stay

if u be phcn official wetin wan carry u go iba.

Vilshow:
Don't be always Pessimistic

he is no pessimist. he is an afonja hater

ofcourse the afonja shudren of hate doing wat dey know best

eyeview:
And a certain girl called beremx will sit in the comfort of amuwo/ojo lga axis of lagos to be defending rochas by arguing with those on the ground suffering from this wickedness of a 419 man called Rochas.

As for the other one called abagworo. Am sorry but that one bu otile

which amuwo....


na iba. shw dey stay...

patriotic9jaboy:
Are these not the crop of politicians that will rule biafra? I am not against having Igbo's their biafra, but the Igbo's should realize that their number one enemy are their appointed leaders who ought fight more for the igbo cause by supporting their seccession stance in the national assembly or form a political party to push their agenda. Instead of going through legitimate means, they followed Nnamdi kanu's path of hate and tribalism while ignoring their leaders who chose to steal their common wealth. Imo state is ruled by an igbo man yet pictures of garbage filled roads, several bad roads, and news of unpaid salaries are circulating the Internet. Can we say igbo leaders are also marginalizing Igbo's?

Every region in nigeria has the leadership problem and the reason the country remains under developed. The leaders are united in corruption and play the ethnic cards to further divide the masses against revolution. Whether it's oodua Republic, Biafra, Arewanistan or whatever, the problem remains finding sincere leaders who are visionary and understands what it takes to attain sustainable development. Not these pot bellied thieves we have in every region.

exactly why we want Biafran so we can change dis crop of leaders...

alanposh:
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biko nwannaaa,onye ka inyere aka

obi ga adim utoo ma oburu Na iga egosim ebe munwa ga agwotaaa ezigbo ogwu ego now maka Na onudum ugbua adirozi mma..

Na aka nke ozoooo,onwego kwa ife iriri?? choo ife rie maka ndu gi

tonimas nyere ndi mmadu aka. nnukwu. munwa na ere engine oil ya. esigom na aka ya na chicason na dozzy poweflo. buru mmadu....

.he got people dat depend on his companies to survive. bith Igbo hausa and yoruba..

MadCow1:
At the end of this year, I am quitting working 9 - 5 for life..








I have paid my dues in that regard, time to switch gears.. If I fail, I want to fail on my own terms.

believe me. you won't regret. i made dis choice 2009. i only worked 7 months. not my thing. though i rise and fall. but no regrets.

serves dem right