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US Congress green signals Predator drone sale to India | World DNA | WION News

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February 8, 2024

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The United States has given the green light for the sale of 31 MQ-9B armed drones to India. The deal, valued at an estimated $4 billion, marks a milestone in defence cooperation between the two nations.

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@JaiRudraNath

February 8, 2024 at 8:13 pm

Question is – should we take this bheekh ? I also learned they gave some warning too in parcel..

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@cityofjoy8830

February 8, 2024 at 8:13 pm

Next step Rajnath will cancel all deal.

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@sanjaysanj6688

February 8, 2024 at 8:13 pm

Do they have any other option ?? 😂🤣

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@charlingbareh8235

February 8, 2024 at 8:13 pm

How if India won to take all the Islands in India Ocean like china won taiwan and the 9 das line need that areas

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@buggzy.

February 8, 2024 at 8:13 pm

Lol insult to the injury on pakistan

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@sarangaswar5567

February 8, 2024 at 8:13 pm

Faltu bakwas karte ho, you should come to the point about drone deal

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@cherubimcherubim9515

February 8, 2024 at 8:13 pm

India can't develop there own drones?

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@user-xx9gw5zh8b

February 8, 2024 at 8:13 pm

Indian government should start investment on it's own making technology to be self independent in terms of weapon😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮

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@krisachar

February 8, 2024 at 8:13 pm

👍

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@akhomeappliance3663

February 8, 2024 at 8:13 pm

World Class Drones are need of the hour

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@eclecticeccentrickamikaze6526

February 8, 2024 at 8:13 pm

Didn’t us suspicion of copying it to USSR

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@user-ig3fp2ds3l

February 8, 2024 at 8:13 pm

Cost of the reaper drone is only us $100 million. Weapons and unmaned control systems account for the other cost. Please understand that.

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@duhaneyparkclassics7484

February 8, 2024 at 8:13 pm

4 billion for 31drones… whomever is in charge of India's military budget needs to get fcuking fired. Holy shyt in 2024 you have so many cheaper options. A fool and his money I guess.

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@oneworldoneworld7013

February 8, 2024 at 8:13 pm

Incorrect comparisions made. These are military assets not debt regimes

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@wretfsfvd

February 8, 2024 at 8:13 pm

2.5 billion to 3 billions
.5 billion money made usa to sell this drone
power of green paper 💪💪

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@ziaullah734

February 8, 2024 at 8:13 pm

India should be strong to stand with china

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@ziaullah734

February 8, 2024 at 8:13 pm

India should be a strong power

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@hussainkanchwala968

February 8, 2024 at 8:13 pm

😂😂😂 stupids

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@abymathew295

February 8, 2024 at 8:13 pm

This is not a good deal, coz they are only good for recon and patrol roles..Not good for the offensive roles..Even a 5th world country army can swat them down like flies…🤕🤕🤕

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@kronos7110

February 8, 2024 at 8:13 pm

Good on India, Russia's weapons were always of poorer quality.
Fun fact: Biden has the power to give you a discount if you give Ukraine your Russian weapons, US already does it with Turkey.
S-400s to Ukraine for a discount on fighter jets.

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@tamilgaming8410

February 8, 2024 at 8:13 pm

U will need tones of drones as we saw in Ukraine war. 4 billion for 31 drones lol😂

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@Ducky_193

February 8, 2024 at 8:13 pm

What is India thinking? 130 million for a drone
Here is the cost compare to other.
F-35A = 70 million
dassault rafale = 100 = 115 million
Su-30 mki = 60 – 70 million

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@Ducky_193

February 8, 2024 at 8:13 pm

India's aerospace and defense company must be a joke for the IAF to spend 130 million on a drone. For reference, an F-35A only cost 70 million.

As a Design Trainee (DT) of Group 185 for the Hindustan Aeronautics Limited. I have seen firsthand how the Indian government's agencies and manufacturers have developed the LCA programme for 10+ years.

Let me tell you, every excuse under the sun has been used, and here is the fact – we still don’t have a combat ready Tejas in 2023. Earliest projected MK1A variant is expected in mid 2024 from HAL, and we can realistically expect its actual handover and induction by 2025. Nearly 45 years from the project’s launch.

There are volumes of white papers and articles available on the net detailing these 40+ years and the problems/challenges India faced, internal and external.

Even in 2025, while majority of the MK1A airframe, and flight systems/software will be indigenous, the essential components that make a modern fighter jet:

Jet Engine: American

Weapon Systems: Russian, French and Israeli missiles and bombs (except Astra Mk1)

AESA Radar: Israeli

EWAR Suite: Israeli

Ejection Cockpit: British

Indian agencies claim, some version of Uttam AESA, Kaveri Jet Engine and domestic EWAR Suites are ready, but NONE will be on the MK1A. Highly unlikely even on the Tejas Mk2, which we know will be using an American engine.

All this long ‘Ram Kahani’ to state – the amount of deep tech, exotic materials, jet engineering and precision manufacturing it takes to produce a true 5th Gen Stealth Fighter platform, is laughably absent in India – so all this AMCA talk is complete science fiction.

Tejas MK2 doesn’t even exist as a prototype in 2023, and these Babus are farting claims about AMCA first flight in 2030 and induction by mid 2030s. I can guarantee Tejas Mk2 won’t be inducted by 2030.

The delays in the Tejas program are responsible directly for the dozens of IAF Officers whose lives are lost flying 1950s era Mig-21s in 21st century. Apart from the tax payer money sunk on LCA program, add the significant Forex spent on all the imported components per Tejas, AND now the old jets IAF is having to buy to keep up its squadrons eg the 2021 purchase of 24 retired Mirage 2000s from France.

I have posted multiple times before and will happily claim again – unless there are significant changes at ADA, HAL, in the direction of some public-private-international partnerships, where the consortium uses existing Fighter Jet tech/specialities, to develop all systems related to AMCA, THEN I will eat my socks if AMCA is a reality before 2050, by which time 6th Gen American/Chinese Jets and UCAVs might become the dominant threat in the Indian skies.

This Modi government now won’t take any big decisions before 2024 Lok Sabha elections and only IF they return with single party majority.

Arjun MBT and Tejas LCA are two of India’s biggest white elephants – exorbitant black holes of taxpayer money and mere show pieces, as they are simply NOT combat ready even in 2023.

India cannot continue to import exorbitant options like Rafale, and cannot afford more delays with either Tejas Mk2 or TEDBF or AMCA – ADA & specially HAL needs change, urgently

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@Ducky_193

February 8, 2024 at 8:13 pm

Lol 🤣. India got the short end of the stick again!

First it was 3 billion for 31 reaper drones.

Now it's 4 billion.

BTW, those reaper drones are the ones that Russia broke by pouring jet fuel on it.

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