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...
USA defense suppliers prepare for India's DefExpo Show next week
News about India’s top ranking as an arms importer come as the country prepares to host one of the region’s largest weapons trade shows, Defexpo India 2012, in New Delhi, from March 29 to April 1, according to the NDIA blog site National Defense. U.S. manufacturers are expected to display...
Textron receives $250 million bomb contract
The U.S. government announced on Thursday that it had cleared the sale of 512 CBU-105 sensor-fused bombs to India by awarding a contract to Textron Systems Corporation, under foreign military sales (FMS) program. Textron Systems Corp. in Wilmington, MA received the $257.7 million contract to provide the sensor-fuzed weapon/ CBU-105...