Photo: Handout photo from the Indian Defence Ministry shows an Agni III missile being launched in the south Asian country. The Pentagon has had longstanding contacts with India on missile defense issues but is not in talks to sell it missile defense systems, a defense spokesman said. (AFP/DPR/HO/File)From Yahoo News/AFP:
WASHINGTON (AFP) – The Pentagon has had longstanding contacts with India on missile defense issues but is not in talks to sell it missile defense systems, a defense spokesman said.
"The United States and India currently are not discussing the sale of any US missile defense systems to India," said Lieutenant Colonel Stewart Upton.
The Financial Times, citing US embassy officials in New Delhi, said the United States was in preliminary talks about sales of US missile shield systems to guard New Delhi against nuclear threats.
A US defense official described the interaction with the Indians as being on "a very rudimentary level."
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