INDIA, AUSTRALIA SET TO BUY $4.3 BILLION IN US ARMS

摘要

The Biden ad ministration has approved a trio of potential Foreign Military Sales cases for Australia and India, items worth a potential $4.36 billion for American companies. On April 29, Australia received approval to purchase a package of Heavy Armored Combat Systems with an estimated price tag of $1,685 billion and four CH-47F Chinook cargo helicopters with an estimated price tag of $259 million. The next day, India received clearance to purchase six P-8I maritime surveillance aircraft worth an estimated $2.42 billion. FMS notification figures represent potential arms sales that the U.S. State Department internally cleared. Then the cases are passed to Congress through the Defense Security Cooperation Agency. The notifications do not represent final sales; if Congress does not reject the potential sale, it then goes into negotiations, during which dollar figures and quantities of equipment can change.