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NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Lockheed Martin (N:LMT) will begin supplying wings for its F-16 combat jets from a facility in southern India from next year, a senior executive said on Thursday.
Lockheed is bidding for a contract, estimated at more than $15 billion, to supply the Indian Air Force with 114 combat planes and has offered to shift its F-16 production line from the United States to India.
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government is pushing a Make-in-India program under which it wants global firms, including in the defense sector, to set up manufacturing centers in India to build a domestic industrial base and create jobs.
Vivek Lall, vice president of Strategy and Business Development for Lockheed Martin Aeronautics, said the wings of all future F-16s that the company will sell worldwide will be produced in a joint venture with India's Tata Advanced Systems in the southern city of Hyderabad.
"The first wing prototype is being built now. The expectation is we will begin supplying by next year sometime, this will be the sole facility for future F-16 wing production," Lall told Reuters.
Lockheed is competing for the Indian air force contract with Boeing (N:BA), which has pitched its F/A-18 Super Hornet, as well as Sweden’s Saab (ST:SAABb) with its Gripen fighter. France’s Dassault (PA:AVMD) Systemes SE’s Rafale, the Eurofighter Typhoon and Russian aircraft are also in the fray.
The air force needs new fighter jets to replace its aging fleet of Russian MiG planes. But Indian defense procurement is a lengthy process.
The government's insistence on local manufacture and reduced reliance on expensive imports has delayed decision-making further as foreign firms search for local partners and suppliers.
Lall said Lockheed was already producing the empennage of its C-130J transport aircraft from the Hyderabad facility and also cabins for its Sikorsky helicopters. There were 500 people each involved in two joint ventures set up for the production of the empennage and the cabin.
"We have been doing make-in-India for years now," he said. The company has said if it sets up a local production base for the F-16 it will also provide maintenance, repair and spares for the combat jet flying with air forces around the world.
Lall said that with 3,000 F-16s flying around the world and more orders being negotiated with countries such as Bahrain, Lockheed estimated there was a market worth $165 billion for after-sales support.
"It is a huge potential business, India will be plugging into the world's largest fighter jet ecosystem."
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洛馬 真要把F-16 搬到印度 台灣那66架F-16V 要變成 Made in India 
而且以後F16零配件都要讓印度生產(空軍快點把全球F-16零配件全部掃下來)
不然台灣近200架F-16 要變寡婦機
印度噴噴口水就有機翼可以作
土耳其 韓國 拿幾百架都拿到授權生產 
為甚麼台灣昇級142架+66架新機 卻甚麼也拿不到 而且印度F-21性能比F16V更好
印度自己製造 SU30都摔幾架 而且還不敢出任務 上次炸巴坦 還叫幻象
還有 印度MiG-21 聽說去買中國生產零件
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