Strange are the ways of the US. Just when India had shed its long-standing opinion of the US being an unreliable arms supplier, given its propensity to impose sanctions at the drop of a hat, Washington has let loose a strange missile. The Navy was all set to launch sea trials of the first of the three Shivalik-class stealth frigates being built at Mazagon Docks (MDL) when it got a rude shock on learning the new Obama administration had directed American company General Electric (GE) to stop all work on the gas turbine engines which power the warships.
Sources said MDL and Navy are now scrambling to get Italian company Fiat Avio to oversee the "operationalisation'' of the two GE LM-2500 gas turbines of the 4,900-tonne frigate, named INS Shivalik, to ensure its sea trials can begin within a month or two.
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O Crap!!!
ReplyDeleteNow this will rule out f16 and f18 out of the MCRA.
I can see a typhoon or a mig 35 winning and one of the winners engine powering the LCA Tejas
The US Gov.t has hit the last nail in the coffin for itself.
I don't really know what the matter is with the US Govt.
Its not like some one will ram a boat into the pentagon powered by this engine ?
I think this issue will be solved shortly since Boeing got the approval to sell the P-8 Poseidon to India. The Obama administration seems to have reviewed its military ties with India.
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