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India : Indian Navy to buy 37 anti-submarine helicopters

Author: idrw team | 29 July 2008 | Views: 678

BY : ANI

The Indian Navy is all set to strengthen its air fleet by acquiring 26 Sea King anti-submarine and troop carrying helicopters and 11 Kamov-28 choppers.

The Defence Ministry will soon issue the request for proposal (RFP) to procure these 37 anti-submarine helicopters. The contract for choppers is worth Rs.14, 500 million

The ministry has finalised global tenders to acquire troop carrying and anti-submarine helicopters as well as to upgrade its fleet of Sea King and Kamov-28 helicopters, a senior naval officer said.

He also said that the delivery of 12 single-seat MiG-29K and 4 two-seat MiG-29KUB would start by the year-end. They will be later deployed on the Admiral Gorshkov aircraft carrier being refitted in Russia.

The first batch of four aircraft for the Navy is likely to fly into the naval air station at Goa.

The officer also said that the Navy is also looking for its own Airborne Early Warning Aircraft.

The navy operates 14 Sea King and 12 Kamov anti-submarine helicopters. In addition, the Sea Kings are also used for reconnaissance, search and rescue operations, and for ferrying personnel and supplies.

Meanwhile, in a major drive to modernise the armed forces and expand aviation wings of the Services, the Defence Ministry today issued a RFP to procure 197 helicopters. The proposed procurement is worth Rs.30, 000 million.
The armed forces will modernise their helicopter fleet by 2010 by replacing the age-old Cheetah and Chetak, which have been in service for last 40 years.

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#1 Author: sanja (30 July 2008 11:27)

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The Indian forces only know how to buy from foreign vendors. Why don't they support their national R&D institutions to produce great things themselves?

With this mentality of buying from other nations, Indian forces will never become really independent.

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#2 Author: OneSanakyan (1 August 2008 21:37)

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Buying foreign goods is a lucrative business, for the seller as well as the buyer. The foreigners are ever willing to give kickbacks because that kickback is also part of the offered price. Only the idiots who receive the kickback think that they are given from the sellers profit.THAT IS NOT THE WAY BUSINESS IS DONE!

Apart from the monetary bribes other perks are also thrown in to make the offer more attractive. When sex starved army personnel and the dirty babus are given foreign sluts for a romp, they think they are given women of class. What they don't understand is that prostitutes can be got for a sum for anyone.

To an Indian in the Armed Forces or the betel chewing babus, any other slut of a different hue than that of an Indian is JUST GREAT, EVEN TO THE EXTENT OF SELLING OUT THE COUNTRY'S INTEREST.

As long as people like Lt Gen Bharadwaj are around, their goal in life is to promote foreign defence products and to undermine indigenous R&D and products. If you are looking for low-life scum and vermin in India, you just have to look at the Armed Forces and the Babooos in GOI.

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