27 juillet<\/a>, sur cette nouvelle offensive US, pleine de projections optimistes et de projets enthousiastes. Un exemple des grandes manuvres US pour investir l’Inde est donn\u00e9 concernant un contrat portant sur 197 h\u00e9licopt\u00e8res l\u00e9gers, qui semblait verrouill\u00e9 avec EADS (Eurocopter) et qui est remis en cause par les habituelles m\u00e9thodes US:<\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00abIn what is being seen as an example of Washington managing to exercise pressure over Indian defense purchases, it appears that the contract for the supply of 197 light helicopters for US$600 million is still wide open as decisions already made have been put on hold.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbThe Ministry of Defense had said this year that it had short-listed Europe’s Eurocopter, a consortium of French, German and Spanish companies, for the deal, over its only contender, the US-based Bell. At that time, a parliamentary committee castigated the government for delays in the helicopter contract, which pushed New Delhi for a final decision.<\/em> <\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbHowever, this month, Defense Minister A K Antony said it is under process when asked about reports that the Eurocopter AS 550 C3 Fennec had gotten the nod ahead of the Bell-407.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbIn May, US officials and Bell are said to have met with India’s ambassador in Washington, Ronen Sen, to express their reservations about the deal going to Eurocopter.<\/em>\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n\tDivers projets sont d\u00e9taill\u00e9s, dans diff\u00e9rentes circonstances, qui sont tous marqu\u00e9s, \u00e0 la r\u00e9flexion, par la complication et l’absence de clart\u00e9. Comme le note Srivastava, \u00ab[t]here have always been questions and nebulous areas in the way Indian defense deals are struck<\/em>\u00bb. Face \u00e0 cette situation, les Am\u00e9ricains, qui ont l’habitude de foncer comme un \u00e9l\u00e9phant dans un magasin de porcelaines, peuvent se heurter \u00e0 des situations caract\u00e9ristiques de l’imbroglio indien de choix et de commande d’armements, une sorte de bourbier diff\u00e9rent de celui qu’ils connaissent en Irak, mais avec ses caract\u00e8res tr\u00e8s pesants.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n\tLes m\u00e9thodes US sont elles-m\u00eames marqu\u00e9es, en plus de l’imp\u00e9tuosit\u00e9, par un certain d\u00e9sordre. C’est le cas pour le march\u00e9 consid\u00e9rable (proche des $10 milliards, dont 10% en commission pour les interm\u00e9diaires indiens) pour 126 avions de combat. Les USA y sont impliqu\u00e9s depuis deux ans avec le Boeing F\/A-18E\/F Super Hornet<\/em> face \u00e0 divers autres concurrents. Mais, impatients devant les d\u00e9lais qu’imposent les Indiens, ils semblent vouloir introduire un nouveau concurrent, sans qu’on sache exactement lequel : \u00abThis month, the Indian Air Force (IAF) was given a demonstration of the prowess of the next-generation US Joint Strike Fighter, the F-35. Observers view this as an attempt to buttress Lockheed Martin’s F-16’s chances of winning the multi-role combat aircraft (MRCA) deal.<\/em>\u00bb D’autres observateurs, plus sceptiques et incr\u00e9dules devant l’id\u00e9e de vendre le F-16 en faisant l’apologie du F-35, se demandent quel avion les USA veulent effectivement vendre \u00e0 l’Inde : le Super Horet<\/em>, d\u00e9j\u00e0 en course? Le F-16, que l’Inde avait \u00e9cart\u00e9 une premi\u00e8re fois? Ou bien le JSF, l’in\u00e9vitable star<\/em> que personne ne peut se permettre de ne pas commander? Il est possible qu’\u00e0 l’imbroglio indien s’ajoute d\u00e9sormais le d\u00e9sordre washingtonien dans le march\u00e9 des armements indiens, puisqu’il appara\u00eet que cette r\u00e9cente initiative pour le F-16 et\/ou le F-35 rel\u00e8ve surtout d’une querelle interne au Pentagone sur les priorit\u00e9s de l’exportation.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\tMis en ligne le 29 juillet 2007 \u00e0 12H02<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Les Am\u00e9ricains sont confiants d’emporter l’essentiel des $30 milliards que les Indiens s’appr\u00eatent \u00e0 d\u00e9penser dans les 5 ann\u00e9es \u00e0 venir pour de nouveaux armements. Les Am\u00e9ricains ne sont jamais plus \u00e0 l’aise que lorsqu’il s’agit de vendre des armes. Cela para\u00eet \u00eatre devenu la principale marque de leur puissance. Sur ATimes.com, le journaliste indien… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3124,2623,5597,1015,3713,3378,250,2804],"class_list":["post-69064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bloc-notes","tag-armement","tag-bureaucratie","tag-exportation","tag-f-16","tag-f-18","tag-inde","tag-jsf","tag-usa"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69064","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69064"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69064\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}