Rebuffed over what is touted as the world's biggest defence deal, the United States is going all out to woo a modernising India with attractive offers with an eye on other big-ticket defence deals.Media stories on a Pentagon report released last week on U.S.-India Security Cooperation largely focused on the biggest carrot - an offer to look at the fifth generation F-35 Joint strike aircraft being developed with eight other countries.
But there were more goodies on offer too from Uncle Sam "to establish itself as a reliable defence supplier to India" "committed to providing India with top-of-the-line technology" and "pursue cooperative opportunities on increasingly sophisticated systems" leading to "co-development of armaments."
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