India’s Foreign Investment Promotion Board cleared a proposal to set up a helicopter assembling unit by Indian Rotorcraft Limited, a joint venture between AgustaWestland and Tata Sons. Indian Rotorcraft will now undertake the final assembly of helicopter model AW 119Kx in lieu of AW 119Ke as proposed earlier, and these...
Indian Navy Opts for Sikorsky Helicopters
Sikorsky's commercial bid for multi-role helicopters (MRH), submitted some time ago, will be opened later this month, after which final price negotiations for 16 units will begin. Two bidders had previously been approved in the technical trials stage but the other contender was eliminated due to financial scandals. The S-70B...
India's Navy to spend $1 billion on Utility Helicopter, releases Requests for Proposal
The Indian Navy has sent requests for proposals (RFPs) to all major rotorcraft vendors, including Bell Helicopter Textron, EADS's Eurocopter, Finmeccanica's AgustaWestland, Russian Helicopters and Sikorsky. According to Aviation Week, the navy requires vendors to offer twin-engine helicopters that can operate in adverse weather day/night conditions for SAR and conduct...