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Indian Purchase of Arrow Missile Interceptor Awaits U.S. Approval While U.S. officials have approved Israel’s sale of ground- and air-based radars to India, New Delhi’s request to purchase Arrow missile interceptors has not yet received U.S. support, Israeli Deputy Prime Minister Yosef Lapid said yesterday (see GSN, Sept. 5). On a visit this week to India, Lapid advanced a deal to sell three airborne Phalcon radar systems, saying the deal could be closed in “a few weeks or months.” India has already acquired Israeli ground-based Green Pine radars that would provide precise guidance for the Arrow interceptors, if India can win U.S. approval to buy them. U.S. officials “are studying this issue and the moment they remove this obstacle, the door will be open (to sell it to India),” said Lapid. He said that the United States has the “legal right” to reject such a sale, but that Washington has not objected to the warming relationship between India and Israel (Times of India, Sept. 11).
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