NEW DELHI (PTI): Seeking to boost defence ties with India, the US has said it wishes to replicate the Russian model of cooperation under which military hardware is developed jointly.
"Yes, that is exactly the same kind of thing where two industry teams are involved in whole product life cycle where the product is both co-produced and developed. That is a new way for the US and India. We do not have the history that Russia does. We are trying to replicate that...," US Deputy Secretary of Defence Ashton Carter said here on Wednesday.
He was asked if the joint venture proposals in defence production offered to India by the US were on the lines of the successful Indian-Russian BrahMos Aerospace Company, which produces the world's only supersonic cruise missile.
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