NEW DELHI — Boeing is in talks with the Indian navy on a follow-on order of four P-8I maritime surveillance and anti-submarine warfare aircraft in addition to the eight ordered in 2009. “We have been in discussion with the Indian navy on advancing the options,” says Dennis Swanson, vice president of international business development for Boeing Defense, Space & Security in India. “We are working with the customer [India] and the customer will decide when the time is appropriate. We stand by ready to engage with them.”

NEW DELHI — India has approved new guidelines to enable state-run defense firms to form joint ventures (JVs) with local and overseas companies, as the country engages in modernizing its armed forces. “The objective is to have better risk-management, greater efficiency, shorter timeframes for delivery to meet the increasing demands of the armed forces, and for enhancing self-reliance in the defense sector as a whole,” a government official said Feb. 9.

NEW DELHI — Pakistan has received the last batch of three sophisticated F-16 Block 52 fighter jets from the U.S. The three Lockheed Martin fighters delivered Feb. 6 at the Shahbaz Air Base in Jacobabad were the last of the 18 jets Pakistan had ordered. The deal’s cost is $1.4 billion for the aircraft and $1.3 billion for technical costs, including upgrades and maintenance.