Lockheed To Shift F-16 Production To India - Facebook Post. Really Crazy Idea.

[TheMastersNemesis]

You know things are going to crap when a company like Lockheed wants to shift F-16 production to India if they by a bunch of planes. In fact I am sure our defense industry wants to build our military equipment over seas and outsource those jobs because it is so much cheaper labor.

Why not send our nuclear production to China or India as well. Add our missiles, tanks, submarines, warships to the mix for the sake of globalization. The message is clear. American workers are way overpaid.

[tonyt53]

1. The US military isn't buying F-16's anymore.

[backscatter712]

4. Yep. Last time I saw this story...

...it was because Lockheed Martin wanted to move their workers to F-35 production. They're expanding and hiring in their Fort Worth facilities, not laying off.

The F-16 is 1970's technology.

[RKP5637]

2. Eventually, they will just want to sell America off to other countries. n/t

[R. Daneel Olivaw]

3. Questionable people do questionable things.

[FrodosPet]

5. That is probably a condition of the sale

I seem to recall a similar requirement India had to buy and build high end Howitzers.
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India Clears Ultra Light Howitzers Buy from US

http://www.defensenews.com/story/defense-news/2016/06/25/india-clears-ultra-light-howitzers-buy-us/86374380/

Vivek Raghuvanshi, Defense News 11:50 a.m. EDT June 25, 2016

NEW DELHI – India cleared the purchase of 145 Ultra Light Howitzers at a cost of around $750 million from US, as well as bulk production of home-grown 18 Dhanush artillery guns and several other defense deals.

Defense Minister Manohar Parrikar, who chaired the June 25 Defence Acquisition Council (DAC), reviewed multiple defense proposals, including new defense schemes valued at $4.1 billion, a Ministry of Defense (MoD) official said.

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In 2013, MoD issued a letter of request to the US government, showing interest in procuring the M777 artillery guns to be uses in high altitude terrains near the China border. The India Army will receive 25 ultra light howitzers in fly-away condition. BAE Systems will assemble the remaining guns in India in partnership with private company Mahindra Defence Systems, the two setting up an assembly integration and test facility for M777 artillery guns near New Delhi.

In addition, DAC also cleared bulk production of 18 indigenous Dhanush artillery guns to be produced in India at a cost of $1.8 million per piece, developed and manufactured by state-owned Ordnance Factory Board. Dhanush is an upgraded version of the original 155 mm howitzer artillery guns brought in 1987, expanding the barrel of the gun from 39 mm to 45 mm caliber.

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[Hoyt]

6. Don't see a problem if the goal is to sell planes to India (other than general distaste for military

weapons), that we no longer use. I would see a problem with off-shoring production of military weapons we are currently using.

In any event, I think this really is a case that if Lockheed doesn't allow production in India on obsolete planes to us, China or Russia would probably jump in an fill the void.

Similarly, I don't have a problem when BMW, Toyota, Honda, Airbus, etc., build a plant in rural South Carolina, Alabama, etc., that provides decent jobs to people who otherwise would have fewer opportunities.

[ymetca]

7. "The chaff, I laugh

Can be no more despised
For the grain, then again
Will rain death from the skies"