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India will soon gift a Dornier maritime patrol plane to Seychelles, an Indian Ocean island nation that enjoys close ties with the South Asian giant, to make it capable of carrying out surveillance in its waters against pirates and maritime terror groups. The Do-228 plane, built by the Defence Public Sector Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL), will be presented to Seychelles President James Michel on January 31 by Indian Defence Minister A.K. Antony. Last February, India and Seychelles had signed an agreement for two HAL-built Dorniers and India promised to deliver the planes before 2014. However, India is delivering the first plane a year ahead of schedule.
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Indian Navy has inducted a newly-built Offshore Patrol Vessel (OPV) that will enhance its ocean surveillance and patrolling capabilities. India's Port Blair-based tri-services Andaman and Nicobar Command chief Air Marshal P.K. Roy formally commissioned the ship into the Indian Navy at an event in Goa. The OPV, indigenously designed and built by the Indian defence public sector Goa Shipyard Limited (GSL), demonstrates the immense potential of the country's indigenous ship designing and building capabilities, an Indian Navy officer said. "Induction of INS Saryu is aimed at meeting the increasing ocean surveillance and patrolling requirements of the Indian Navy," he added.
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India's Defence Minister A. K. Antony visited neighbouring Myanmar for two days this week when he met that country's President Thein Sein at capital Nay Pyi Taw. During the meeting, Antony conveyed the importance placed by India on enhancement of bilateral ties in all fields, including defence, with Myanmar, according to Indian defence officials.
Antony noted that the recent exchanges of visits between both countries at political and other levels had imparted a new momentum to the bilateral relationship. In the case of defence in particular, he noted that the two sides were working to consolidate ties, in mutual interest of both.
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After three years of operations, Mahindra and Mahindra and its foreign partner BAE Systems have announced a review of their joint venture in India to see if it needs any change to address issues concerning an evolving market. "Since the establishment in 2009 of the Mahindra and Mahindra and BAE Systems Joint Venture, Defence Land Systems India (DLSI), both shareholders recognise that significant evolution has occurred in the Indian Land Systems market," their joint statement said. "Developments in both the industry environment and in customer procurement frameworks and acquisition strategies have led the shareholders to institute a strategic review of the business," they said.
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US aerospace major Boeing has delivered on scheduled the first of the 10 C-17 Globemaster III heavy airlifters for the Indian Air Force (IAF), the company has said. India's first C-17, delivered on January 22, will now enter a US Air Force flight test program at Edwards Air Force Base in Palmdale, California, it said. Boeing is on track to deliver four more C-17s to the IAF this year and five in 2014. "The C-17 met the stipulated airlift requirements of the Indian Air Force when it flew field evaluation trials in India during June 2010," said Air Commodore Sanjay Nimesh, Air Attache at the Embassy of India in the US.
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