Indian low-cost Go Airlines (GoAir) has selected Pratt & Whitney PurePower PW1100G-JM engines for its firm order of 72 A320 aircraft. The agreement represents 144 firm-order PW1100G-JM engines and is expected to include a PureSolutionSM maintenance package, a spokesman for P&W, says. No financial details are available, but the spokesman says the deliveries are scheduled to start in 2016.

NEW DELHI — India successfully test-fired an interceptor missile Feb. 10 from a base in India’s eastern state of Orissa as part of its two-layer ballistic missile defense program, according to a senior Indian defense official.

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.”