Arms Export Control Act
India's Apache fleet gets a $198.2 million support package
The Pentagon says the $198.2 million package would help keep India’s AH-64E Apache helicopters flying. Boeing and Lockheed Martin are named as the main contractors for sustainment, engineering, training and logistics.
The Defense Department says the package would help keep India’s AH-64E helicopters flying and supported. Boeing and Lockheed Martin are named as the principal contractors.
- The proposed package is valued at $198.2 million.
- No major defense equipment is listed in the public summary.
- Most of the notice covers Apache sustainment and support work.
- The filing is an unclassified 36(b) arms-sales notification.
- The Defense Department, through the Defense Security Cooperation Agency, is publishing an unclassified arms sales notice for the Government of India, and the proposed package carries a total estimated value of $198.2 million
The Defense Department, through the Defense Security Cooperation Agency, is publishing an unclassified arms sales notice for the Government of India, and the proposed package carries a total estimated value of $198.2 million. The notice is a section 36(b) arms sales notification under the Arms Export Control Act, which is how proposed foreign military sales are disclosed before they become final.
The headline number matters, but so does what is not in the public summary. No major defense equipment is listed. Instead, the package is built around AH-64E Apache sustainment support, plus U.S. government and contractor engineering, technical and logistics support, technical data and publications, personnel training, and related program support.
A support package with strategic weight
That makes this less a weapons sale than a maintenance-and-readiness package. For India, the practical value is keeping Apache helicopters supplied, maintained and integrated with the technical know-how that keeps them flying. For the U.S. side, the notice fits inside a broader defense relationship that the Pentagon says supports the U.S.-Indian strategic partnership.
The filing says the funding source is national funds and identifies Boeing and Lockheed Martin as the principal contractors. It is the unclassified text of the notification, not the full detail of every item that could eventually be included.