![U.S. defence sales to India have grown from the low hundreds of millions of dollars in the decade to 2008 to more than $9 billion since that year AH-64D Apache Longbow](http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-1crnz-0VFic/RhH1yKfzqYI/AAAAAAAAAio/AOPzQJZflMA/s560/AH-64D%252520Apache%252520Longbow_3.jpg)
The Apache gunships and a deal for Chinook helicopters, both built by Boeing, will top the agenda in Hagel's talks on Friday with the new administration led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
India has offered a follow-on order of 39 AH-64D Apache helicopters in addition to the 22 now being negotiated, a Defence Ministry official said. The sides have been wrangling over the price of the gunships, however, with the initial deal having been estimated to be worth $1.4 billion.
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