A U.S. Defense Department team and Boeing executives will visit India Sept. 16–19 to restart negotiations on a roughly $4 billion sale of six P‑8I maritime patrol aircraft — a procurement cleared in 2019 but stalled since — tied to efforts to boost Indian Ocean surveillance and reset bilateral trade talks.
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The visit seeks to finalise a near-$4 billion foreign military sale that would materially enhance India's maritime ISR in the Indian Ocean and advance a long-delayed 2019 procurement; see context in India's 15‑year defence modernisation plan.
The talks are happening alongside efforts to restart strained bilateral trade discussions, underlining the deal's strategic as well as economic dimensions and precedent set by other recent regional P‑8 purchases such as Singapore's P‑8A acquisition.
The procurement is concurrent with industrial and schedule risks for Boeing's defence business — notably an ongoing St. Louis defence strike — and faces domestic competition from India’s push for locally sourced maritime platforms (see the Tata‑Airbus C‑295 RFP)(https://hype.aero/?story=13297c6a-3dfd-42e7-a023-22a1f067962f).
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