NEW DELHI — Boeing has delivered a third Boeing C-17 airlifter to the Indian air force (IAF). The military transport aircraft departed for India Aug. 20 from the company’s Long Beach, Calif., facility. The first and second Indian C-17s were delivered in June and July. “Boeing is on track to deliver two more C-17s to the IAF this year and five in 2014,” the company says. India signed a $4.1 billion contract with the U.S. in 2011 to acquire the aircraft.

NEW DELHI — After scrubbing the launch of its Geostationary Satellite Launch Vehicle (GSLV-D5) Aug. 19 due to a fuel leak in the rocket’s second stage, India may consider destacking the rocket and swapping for a backup engine. “We have the standby for the second-stage engine. It is similar to the one used for the Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle [PSLV],” a scientist at the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) says. But “first we have to see what went wrong with the [GSLV] launch,” he says.

NEW DELHI — India’s Bharat Dynamics Limited (BDL) has signed a contract worth 30 billion rupees ($475 million) with the country’s defense ministry to supply Invar anti-tank guided missiles to the Indian army. “The deliveries are expected to be completed over the next five years,” a defense ministry spokesman says. In 2011, India approved the purchase of 25,000 Invar missiles to be carried on the army’s T-90 tanks.