News reports from India says the Defence Acquisitions Council (DAC), chaired by Defence minister Nirmala Sitharaman, has approved the “acceptance of necessity (AoN)” to buy the National Advanced Surface to Air Missile System 2(NASAMS 2) to defend its capital.
By Ministerie van Defensie [CC0 or CC0], via Wikimedia Commons
The deal is rumored to be worth $1 billion. The NASAMS 2 is currently deployed in the United States to protect Washington D.C.