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Zitat:India Approves Purchase of 56 Airbus C295 Transport Planes
May 14, 2015 11:42 a.m. ET NEW DELHI—India’s Defense Ministry has approved the purchase of 56 transport aircraft from Airbus Group NV in a deal valued at $1.87 billion and has given the go-ahead to a long-stalled deal to acquire howitzers from BAE Systems PLC.
A high-level committee headed by Defense Minister Manohar Parrikar signed off on acquiring the C295 military plane which Airbus said it will build in partnership with Tata Advanced Systems Ltd., ministry spokesman Sitanshu Kar said.
Airbus will assemble 40 of the transport planes in India after the first 16 have been delivered from the existing Spanish production facility. Airbus said it “welcomed” the decision by the ministry’s procurement council. The aircraft would replace the Indian air force’s aging fleet of Avro jets.
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India recently also agreed to buy 36 Dassault Aviation SA Rafale combat jets directly from France after a deal to partly build them in India stalled because of the complexity of the deal.
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