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印度28号宣布拒绝包括美国在内的多家公司竞投价值110亿美元的战机合约，美国驻印度大使罗默对此深表失望，同时，他又宣布因个人原因辞职并在6月离任。

据接近印度国防部的消息指，国防部将六款考虑购买的战机范围缩减为两款，这两款战机分别是台风战斗机及阵风战斗机。

美国洛克希德-马丁公司生产的F-16战机和波音公司生产的F/A18超级大黄蜂战机，不符合印度空军的技术要求。

同时，印度国防部也将瑞典绅宝公司的JAS-39战机以及俄罗斯的米格35战机排除在购买的行列之外。

美国驻印度大使罗默发表声明，对印度的决定深表失望，但就尊重印度的采购决定。

罗默同时强调，波音公司的F/A18超级大黄蜂战机同洛克希德-马丁公司的F-16战机技术成熟、价格合理，应该是印度空军的不二选择。

印度预计在未来10年投放800亿美元以提升军备，而过去数年，印度是全球最大的武器及国防用品买家。

而印度本次的决定无疑是对美国总统奥巴马的一大打击，奥巴马在去年11月访问印度期间，积极向印度争取这份战机以及其他国防合约

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US upset over losing fighter jet deal, envoy decides to go home:

The US Ambassador to India, Timothy J Roemer, announced his resignation today, a day after the government decided not to shortlist two US companies for the $11-billion contract for 126 Medium Multi Role Combat Aircraft (MMRCA). The government has shortlisted European companies Dassault and EADS.

That Roemer was a family man was clear in his first press conference at arriving in India. In New Delhi, Roemer introduced to the Delhi press corps not just his wife, Sally, but his father and mother too. His mother also had words of praise for her daughter-in-law.


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Today, as he announced he was leaving India, Roemer gave family as the reason, saying his two sons would go to university in 14 months and he wanted to spend more time with his family. He said he had told President Barack Obama earlier that he would like just a two-year term in India.

However, informally, Indian bureaucrats said the US had not expected to be overlooked for the deal in the first stage itself.

The impression in India was that Roemer’s return was prompted as much by his desire to return to US politics as to distance himself from the loss of the MMRCA deal.

A deal for manufacturing the 126 aircraft would have meant a lot for Obama’s promise of creating more jobs in his recession-hit country. “His return is a reflection of what his boss wants from India — commercial deals and jobs back home as well as non-interference on AfPak and other issues,” said a bureaucrat.

Carnegie Endowment researcher Ashley Tellis’s monograph, ‘Dogfight’, which came out earlier this year, had made a persuasive case for the contract to be awarded to a US company in the interest of Indian and US strategic goals.

The US Embassy acknowledged it was upset that Boeing and Lockheed Martin had not been considered.

“We are reviewing the documents from the government of India and are respectful of the procurement process. We are, however, deeply disappointed by this news. I have been personally assured at the highest levels of the Indian government that the procurement process for this aircraft has been and will be transparent and fair. I am extremely confident that the Boeing F/A 18IN and the Lockheed-Martin F-16IN will provide the Indian Air Force an unbeatable platform with proven technologies at a competitive price,” said a statement.

India, on its part, tried to sweeten things. The Cabinet Committee on Security is ready to clear the purchase of the C-17 Globemaster transport aircraft at a cost of more than $4 billion. This will be through the foreign military sales route -- a government-to-government method of procuring defence equipment

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印度28号宣布拒绝包括美国在内的多家公司竞投价值110亿美元的战机合约，美国驻印度大使罗默对此深表失望，同时，他又宣布因个人原因辞职并在6月离任。

据接近印度国防部的消息指，国防部将六款考虑购买的战机范围缩减为两款，这两款战机分别是台风战斗机及阵风战斗机。

美国洛克希德-马丁公司生产的F-16战机和波音公司生产的F/A18超级大黄蜂战机，不符合印度空军的技术要求。

同时，印度国防部也将瑞典绅宝公司的JAS-39战机以及俄罗斯的米格35战机排除在购买的行列之外。

美国驻印度大使罗默发表声明，对印度的决定深表失望，但就尊重印度的采购决定。

罗默同时强调，波音公司的F/A18超级大黄蜂战机同洛克希德-马丁公司的F-16战机技术成熟、价格合理，应该是印度空军的不二选择。

印度预计在未来10年投放800亿美元以提升军备，而过去数年，印度是全球最大的武器及国防用品买家。

而印度本次的决定无疑是对美国总统奥巴马的一大打击，奥巴马在去年11月访问印度期间，积极向印度争取这份战机以及其他国防合约

http://news.ifeng.com/mil/1/detail_2011_04/29/6066583_0.shtml



US upset over losing fighter jet deal, envoy decides to go home:

The US Ambassador to India, Timothy J Roemer, announced his resignation today, a day after the government decided not to shortlist two US companies for the $11-billion contract for 126 Medium Multi Role Combat Aircraft (MMRCA). The government has shortlisted European companies Dassault and EADS.

That Roemer was a family man was clear in his first press conference at arriving in India. In New Delhi, Roemer introduced to the Delhi press corps not just his wife, Sally, but his father and mother too. His mother also had words of praise for her daughter-in-law.


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Today, as he announced he was leaving India, Roemer gave family as the reason, saying his two sons would go to university in 14 months and he wanted to spend more time with his family. He said he had told President Barack Obama earlier that he would like just a two-year term in India.

However, informally, Indian bureaucrats said the US had not expected to be overlooked for the deal in the first stage itself.

The impression in India was that Roemer’s return was prompted as much by his desire to return to US politics as to distance himself from the loss of the MMRCA deal.

A deal for manufacturing the 126 aircraft would have meant a lot for Obama’s promise of creating more jobs in his recession-hit country. “His return is a reflection of what his boss wants from India — commercial deals and jobs back home as well as non-interference on AfPak and other issues,” said a bureaucrat.

Carnegie Endowment researcher Ashley Tellis’s monograph, ‘Dogfight’, which came out earlier this year, had made a persuasive case for the contract to be awarded to a US company in the interest of Indian and US strategic goals.

The US Embassy acknowledged it was upset that Boeing and Lockheed Martin had not been considered.

“We are reviewing the documents from the government of India and are respectful of the procurement process. We are, however, deeply disappointed by this news. I have been personally assured at the highest levels of the Indian government that the procurement process for this aircraft has been and will be transparent and fair. I am extremely confident that the Boeing F/A 18IN and the Lockheed-Martin F-16IN will provide the Indian Air Force an unbeatable platform with proven technologies at a competitive price,” said a statement.

India, on its part, tried to sweeten things. The Cabinet Committee on Security is ready to clear the purchase of the C-17 Globemaster transport aircraft at a cost of more than $4 billion. This will be through the foreign military sales route -- a government-to-government method of procuring defence equipment

http://www.business-standard.com ... -to-go-home/433902/