Official: No Active Talks On Indian Participation In F-35 Program

By Christopher J. Castelli / April 18, 2013 at 9:53 PM
U.S. and Indian officials might one day discuss India's potential participation in the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter program, but for now that is not an active dialogue, Assistant Secretary of State for Political-Military Affairs Andrew Shapiro said today. "It's something, you know, down the road we might talk about but . . . it's not something that we're discussing right now," Shapiro told foreign reporters at a press briefing in Washington. "I know that Deputy Secretary of Defense [Ashton] Carter...

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