NEW DELHI: The US government lockdown, a result of the ongoing tussle between Democrats and Republicans over Barack Obama's healthcare programme, has claimed an unlikely victim.
The impasse has torpedoed Army chief General Bikram Singh's proposed visit to the US that was scheduled from October 8 to 14. 'Gen Singh will now go to the US towards end-November due to the government shutdown there,'' said a senior officer on Monday, dismissing that the ongoing major anti-infiltration operation in the Keran sector of J&K was the actual reason behind the visit being deferred.
The Army chief's visit, if it had gone ahead as scheduled, would have come close after India and US inked a joint declaration on defence cooperation after a meeting between Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and President Barack Obama in Washington on September 27.
The two sides look forward to the identification of specific opportunities for cooperative and collaborative projects in advanced defence technologies and systems within the next year,'' said the agreement. As earlier reported by TOI, the US is offering India joint manufacturing facilities for the next-generation of Javelin anti-tank guided missiles to C-130J Super Hercules'' aircraft. It has already bagged Indian defence deals worth about $9 billion over the last few years.
Four more deals, worth almost $5 billion, already lined up are ones for six more C-130J aircraft, 22 Apache attack helicopters, 15 Chinook heavy-lift helicopters and 145 M-777 ultra-light howitzers.
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