13
Feb
New Delhi: As the Indian Air Force (IAF) and the Indian Navy expand -- their fighter-jet needs are to be met over the next decade -- US giant Boeing has offered to participate in the ‘make in India’ to build an indigenous industrial base that can produce world class planes – the Boeing F/A-18 Super Hornet. The twin-engined plane has a version that is for the IAF and also for ship-deck based operations of the Indian Navy’s sea-borne aircraft carriers -- the INS Vikramaditya, the under construction INS Vikrant and the under planning 65,000 tonne aircraft carrier. Thom Breckenridge, Vice…