WASHINGTON (Sputnik) — A team from the US Department of Defense is holding negotiations in India on potential co-production of fighter jets, US Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter said on Friday.
"Members of my team… right now, as we are here in New York, in India [are] looking at the potential co-production of fighter aircraft," Carter stated at the Council on Foreign Relations.
India has recently signed a number defense deals with the United States, but Russia still providing about 70 percent of India’s weapons, according to the US-based geopolitical intelligence firm Stratfor.
In January, an independent Russia-based project scrutinizing the global arms market, Center for Analysis of World Arms Trade, said that Russia will retain its share of Indian arms market despite US advances.
