A day after U.S. companies were shut out from the competition to secure the Medium Multi-Role Combat Aircraft (MMRCA) program for the Indian air force, the Obama administration is promoting the sale of Boeing’s C-17 transport to New Delhi. The air force had shortlisted the C-17 to be its new heavy-lift transport aircraft two years ago That deal is worth about $4 billion.

A Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd. (HAL) trainer jet crashed April 28 in southern India during a routine sortie barely a week after an advanced light helicopter, also developed by the state-owned company, went down near the Indo-China border. “The intermediate jet trainer [IJT], prototype aircraft S-3466, was carrying out routine flight testing when it met with a mishap in the afternoon. Both of the test pilots onboard ejected safely,” HAL says in a statement. The company has begun an accident investigation.

NEW DELHI — The Indian army’s artillery buy remains snarled in a maze as British defense and security company BAE Systems has opted not to bid on a program for 1,580 towed guns.