February 10, 2007	Saturday	Muharram 21, 1428

BANGALORE, Feb 9: Lockheed Martin, the US maker of defence equipment, sweetened its pitch for the F-16 by offering to sell India a range of additional military hardware on Friday.

Lockheed Martin and other big US defence companies are at the Bangalore air show soliciting orders from a government that says boosting military firepower to ward off future threats is one of its “biggest agendas”. The P-3C maritime surveillance aircraft, C-130J tactical airlifter, MH-60R multi-role helicopter and PAC-3 air and missile defence system will help meet both present and anticipated Indian defence needs, Lockheed officials said at the Indian air show in Bangalore.—AFP