{"id":486952,"date":"2025-10-10T00:07:17","date_gmt":"2025-10-10T00:07:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/486952\/"},"modified":"2025-10-10T00:07:17","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T00:07:17","slug":"u-k-pms-india-visit-updates-u-k-signs-468-million-deal-to-supply-india-with-missiles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/486952\/","title":{"rendered":"U.K. PM\u2019s India visit updates: U.K. signs $468 million deal to supply India with missiles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Britain said on Thursday (October 9, 2025) that it had signed a 350 million pound ($468 million) contract to supply the Indian army with U.K.-manufactured lightweight missiles, as part of a deepening weapons and defence partnership between the two countries.<\/p>\n<p>In its statement on the defence deal, the British government said the new contract for Lightweight Multirole Missiles made by Thales in Northern Ireland would secure 700 jobs at a factory which currently makes the same weapons for Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe deal paves the way for a broader complex weapons partnership between the U.K. and India, currently under negotiation between the two governments,\u201d it said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Reuters<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Britain said on Thursday (October 9, 2025) that it had signed a 350 million pound ($468 million) contract&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":486953,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[748,393,4884,110218,106088,160996,160990,160991,160992,160994,1144,712,16,160995,160993,15,1764],"class_list":{"0":"post-486952","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uk","8":"category-united-kingdom","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-india-uk-trade-agreement","13":"tag-india-uk-ties","14":"tag-jetco","15":"tag-keir-starmer-in-india","16":"tag-keir-starmer-in-mumbai","17":"tag-keir-starmer-modi-meeting","18":"tag-keir-starmer-pm-modi-meet","19":"tag-northern-ireland","20":"tag-scotland","21":"tag-uk","22":"tag-uk-pm-in-india","23":"tag-uk-prime-minister-keir-starmer-visits-india","24":"tag-united-kingdom","25":"tag-wales"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115346960821576538","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486952","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=486952"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486952\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/486953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=486952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=486952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=486952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}