Eurofighter hopes to engage India as an industrial partner for production and future development of the Typhoon, and is proposing a navalized variant to the Indian Navy and other customers. Officially announced during the Aero India 2011 show in February, the carrier-based Typhoon would also introduce a thrust-vectored variant of the Eurojet EJ200 engine. Speaking at Aero India, Bernhard Gerwert, CEO of Cassidian Air Systems and Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Eurofighter GmbH, said:'Our ultimate objective is to win India as a key partner co-developing and co-producing future upgrades and enhancements, new sub-systems, software, etc.' Should India enter an industrial partnership with Eurofighter, it would present a significant opportunity for local industry, which would enter the global Eurofighter supply chain on a manufacturing and engineering level.
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