{"id":66740,"date":"2024-02-01T17:57:26","date_gmt":"2024-02-01T17:57:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/uncategorized\/2024\/02\/01\/biden-administration-moves-forward-on-india-drone-sale\/"},"modified":"2026-08-20T14:09:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-20T14:09:10","slug":"biden-administration-moves-forward-on-india-drone-sale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/unmanned\/2024\/02\/01\/biden-administration-moves-forward-on-india-drone-sale\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden administration moves forward on India drone sale"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><i>Editor\u2019s note: Vivek Raghuvanshi, a journalist and freelancer to Defense News for more than three decades, was <\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/global\/2023\/05\/17\/reports-defense-news-correspondent-arrested-in-india\/\" target=\"_blank\"><i>jailed<\/i><\/a><i> in mid-May by India\u2019s Central Bureau of Investigation on charges of espionage. The Indian government has released minimal information on his arrest. Sightline Media Group, which owns Defense News, has not seen any evidence to substantiate these charges and repudiates attacks on press freedom.<\/i><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The U.S. State Department on Thursday approved a nearly $4 billion drone sale to India, a deal that emerged during Prime Minister <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/congress\/2023\/06\/23\/us-india-cement-partnership-with-slew-of-new-defense-deals\/\" target=\"_blank\">Narendra Modi\u2019s visit to Washington<\/a> last year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Congress has received the notification for India\u2019s pending purchase of 31 MQ-9B SkyGuardian aircraft made by General Atomics Aeronautical Systems. The notification triggers a 30-day congressional review period on Capitol Hill.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe U.S.-India defense partnership has seen significant growth over the past decade,\u201d State Department spokesman Matthew Miller said a press briefing on Wednesday, noting the sale \u201coffers significant potential to further advance strategic technology cooperation with India and military cooperation in the region.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Biden administration has sought to court India as part of its efforts to counter China in the Indo-Pacific region while prying it away from Russia, New Delhi\u2019s leading arms supplier. India also seeks to develop its own indigenous defense-industrial base. A December <a href=\"https:\/\/crsreports.congress.gov\/product\/pdf\/IF\/IF12438\" target=\"_blank\">Congressional Research Service report<\/a> noted that India is the world\u2019s largest arms importer by value.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In addition to the drone sale, Modi\u2019s visit to Washington in June resulted in a spate of other agreements, such as a deal between General Electric and Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd. to jointly produce fighter jet engines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Micron Technology, an American semiconductor firm, also pledged to spend upward of $2.75 billion on construction of an assembly and test facility in India. 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