NEW DELHI — India plans to buy 270 F-125IN turbofan engines from Honeywell to improve its fleet of Jaguar aircraft, the key strike asset for the Indian air force (IAF). “The defense ministry on Oct. 15 issued a request for proposal to Honeywell to supply the turbofan engines through the U.S. foreign military sales route,” IAF spokesman Wing Cmdr. Gerard Galway tells Aviation Week.
NEW DELHI — India has cleared a proposal to buy more than 200 air-launched BrahMos supersonic cruise missiles for the Indian air force (IAF). “The federal Cabinet Committee on Security [on Oct. 18] approved a proposal worth over 60 billion rupees [$1.2 billion] for purchasing, testing and integration of the BrahMos missile on the Russian-made Su-30MKI aircraft of the IAF,” a defense ministry official says.
