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.
Air India Express (AIE), the budget subsidiary of national carrier Air India, plans to acquire 14 additional aircraft from Boeing by 2017, an airline official says. “Air India Express will acquire 14 Boeing 737-800 aircraft over next four-five years,” Chief Operating Officer Ansbert D’souza says. The decision was made recently by India’s civil aviation ministry as part of the turnaround plan for Air India. The airline will soon decide whether “to go in for leasing or buy the aircraft,” D’souza adds.
