10月4日下午,由印度国防部长安东尼担任主席的国防采购办委员会宣布了两项大型海军采购项目,计划从美国增加购买4艘奥斯汀级两牺船坞登陆舰及4架P-8I型远程巡逻机,总价值2060亿卢比(约合46亿美元),成为有史以来最大的一宗印美防务贸易。紧接着,10月18日,美国参议院又批准转让2艘 On the afternoon of October 4, the Defense Procurement and Trade Commission, chaired by Indian Defense Minister Antony, announced two large-scale naval procurement projects and plans to increase the purchase of four Austin-class two-ship dock landing craft and four P-8I long-range patrols from the United States The machine, worth a total of 206 billion rupees (about 4.6 billion U.S. dollars), became the largest ever Indian-US defense trade. Then, on October 18, the U.S. Senate approved the transfer of two more ships