MQ-9B Drones Will Provide Strategic Capability, Enhance India’s Security: Vivek Lall

Exclusive: Vivek Lall, Chief Executive, General Atomics Global Corporation, speaks to ABP Live on India’s purchase of 31 MQ-9B drones for all three services – Army, Navy and Air Force.

Vivek Lall is the Chief Executive of General Atomics Global Corporation that has bagged a nearly $4 billion deal to sell 31 predator armed drones to Indian armed forces.

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Yelahanka, Bengaluru: Vivek Lall, Chief Executive of General Atomics Global Corporation, is a contented man. After years of trying, the US defence giant was able to finally bag a nearly $4 billion deal to sell 31 predator armed drones to the Indian Army, Navy and Air Force. The deal was approved by the US in February 2024, under the US Foreign Military Sale, or FMS, route. The Ministry of Defence approved procurement of 31 MQ-9B Predator ‘hunter-killer’ armed drones in 2023. The