PARIS — India agreed to buy multi-role missiles manufactured by Thales in the United Kingdom in a deal worth £350 million ($468 million), the U.K. government said on Thursday.

The deal to deliver the Lightweight Multirole Missile to the Indian Army was signed during U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s two-day visit to Mumbai, paving the way for a broader partnership in complex weapons that the countries are negotiating, the British government said in a statement .

The missile deal “paves the way for a deeper relationship between U.K. and Indian defense industries,” U.K. Secretary of State for Defence John Healey said in a post on social media . “This is how we are making the U.K. defense industry an engine for growth.”

The U.K. has been eyeing a larger share of the Indian armamen

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