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Wednesday, February 13, 2008

Boeing Targets $15 Billion Defense Orders in India in 10 Years

Boeing Co., the Pentagon's second- largest supplier, said it plans to bid for as much as $15 billion of military orders in India over the next 10 years to shore up sales at its defense unit.

The Integrated Defense Systems unit will offer its F/A-18E/F Super Hornet fighters, the P-8I patrol aircraft, the CH-47 Chinook and the AH-64D Apache Longbow helicopters, Vivek Lall, the India head for Boeing's defense unit, said in a telephone interview from New Delhi today. The Harpoon, JDAM and SLAM-ER missiles will also be on sale in India, he said.

Chicago-based Boeing, which trails behind Lockheed Martin Corp. as a supplier to the U.S. military, is seeking overseas defense contracts after sales at its unit fell 1.1 percent to $32.1 billion last year.

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