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Monday, July 16, 2007

Indian Navy May Bid To Acquire Amphibious Warship USS Nashville

Free Image Hosting at www.ImageShack.usIndia and the United States are close to signing an agreement under which their armed forces will provide each other logistics support on a reciprocal basis even as New Delhi may bid to buy another American amphibious warship.

A logistics support agreement is in the final stages, said top Pentagon officials now on a visit to the country. They also said that Washington had offered the giant landing ship, USS Nashwill, to the Indian Navy.

"We have put the offer to the Indian Navy," Lt Gen Jeffrey B Kohler, director of the Defence Security Cooperation Agency in the US defence department told media persons. The amphibious warship is of the same class as the 17,000 ton USS Trenton that was bought by the Indian Navy.

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