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Message: <blockquote data-quote="lkdood" data-source="post: 10321480" data-attributes="member: 92282"><img src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/50/C-17_2006-05-10_F-2559D-003.jpg/800px-C-17_2006-05-10_F-2559D-003.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />The Cabinet Committee on Security (CCS) on Monday  cleared a proposal to buy ten C-17 heavy lift military aircraft worth  $4.1 billion from the U.S., the biggest-ever defence deal to be entered  between the two countries.“The CCS meeting chaired  by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh cleared the proposal for purchase of  the planes from the U.S. through the Foreign Military Sales (FMS)  route,” Defence Ministry officials said here.Under  the deal, the U.S. defence major Boeing, the manufacturer of the  aircraft, will have to invest 30 per cent of the contract amount for  setting up defence facilities in India, they said.As  per the procurement procedure, offsets clause entails that a vendor  winning a defence deal worth over Rs 300 crore has to reinvest at least  30 per cent of the deal amount in Indian defence, homeland security or  civilian aerospace sectors.The deal, which amounts to over Rs 18,000 crore, would be the biggest-ever defence contract to be entered with the U.S.Prior  to this, the biggest deal was worth $2.1 billion for procurement of  eight P-8I maritime surveillance and anti-submarine warfare aircraft  from Boeing through direct commercial sales in 2009.India  is planning to procure the aircraft for augmenting its fleet, which now  comprises Russian-made transport aircraft Ilyushin-76 and Antonov-32.After finalising the initial deal for 10 aircraft, the IAF is also planning to place orders for additional six C-17s.The C17 will be the second American airlifter in the IAF transport fleet, which recently inducted the C130 J Super Hercules.The  four-engine C17 aircraft can lift two T90 tanks and artillery guns and  are used for rapid strategic airlift of troops and cargo to operating  bases throughout the world. It can also perform tactical airlift,  medical evacuation and airdrop missions.The aircraft has the capacity to carry over 130 fully-equipped combat ready troops.However,  the aircraft would come with some important communication equipment in  absence of the contentious Communications Interoperability and Security  Memorandum of Agreement (CISMOA) with the US.In the  recent past, India had finalised defence deals worth over USD eight  billion, including the C130J, C—7, P8I and Harpoon anti-ship missiles.  Several more multi-billion dollar deals are in the pipeline for being  cleared in the near future.<a href="http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/article2081799.ece" target="_blank">thehindu</a></blockquote>

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