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Third Time Lucky? Five-way Indian Light Copter Contest Begins

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India's tragicomic efforts to buy new light reconnaissance and surveillance helicopters (RSH) for the Indian Army and IAF, aborted last year for the second time in over a decade, has officially begun again. With the deadline for interest ending on March 31, five platforms will now prospectively compete for an unspecified (but known to be nearly 400) number of helicopters, all of which will have to be made in India by a winning Indian partner.

Livefist can confirm that the MoD has received more than ten responses to its request for information that expired on March 31. And yes, that's multiple bids per platform on five different helicopters, as follows in no particular order:

  1. Airbus AS550 C3 Fennec
  2. Kamov Ka-226T Sergei
  3. Bell 407GT
  4. AgustaWestland AW119
  5. HAL Light Utility Helicopter
An RfP to kickstart the contest is expected to be out later this year. Two rounds of Q&A between MoD/Army/IAF acquisition managers between October 2014 and March 2015 have narrowed down the broad requirements (and several prevailing blanks) in the RFI. The RfP will, hopefully, hammer things down further. Several points of interest in the composition of the new competition:
  1. Bell Helicopter returns to the contest after sitting out the last attempt (they decided not to bid then because of the offsets requirements).
  2. AgustaWestland has responses in through two Indian firms for the militarised AW119 Koala.
  3. HAL has also expressed interest in the contest. With its Light Utility Helicopter (LUH) expected to
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    , the company has decided to throw its hat in the ring for good measure.
This hardly needs saying anymore on Indian helo procurement: Expect a lot of downwash before things really get going.
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I REALLY like this picture of the Vikramaditya and the Viraat carriers operating in formation together. Beautiful picture and quite the accomplishment for which the Indians can and should be proud.

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Two fixed wing carriers operating and in service together. A very exclusive club.
 
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L&T Wins $228 Million Contract For Indian Offshore Patrol Vessels

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Larsen & Toubro (L&T) has won $ 228 million contract from the Indian Ministry of Defence to construct seven Offshore Patrol Vessels (OPVs) for the Indian Coast Guard (ICG). The contract is part of the government’s initiative to strengthen India’s coastal security, the company announced in its press release on Tuesday. OPVs under the project are long range surface ships, capable of operation in maritime zones of India, including island territories with helicopter operational capabilities. Their roles include coastal and offshore patrolling, policing maritime zones of India, control and surveillance, anti- smuggling and anti-piracy with limited wartime roles. In keeping with Government’s ‘Make in India’ focus, complete design and engineering of OPVs is planned to be undertaken in- house at L&T’s Warship Design Centre. The first OPV under the project is scheduled to be delivered within 36 months from signing of the contract. Subsequent OPVs shall be delivered at six months interval. L&T is already executing MoD contracts for design and construction of 54 fast Interceptor Boats (IBs) for the Indian Coast Guard. 25 IBs have already been delivered so far to ICG with the latest boat having been delivered 23 months ahead of schedule. L&T is targeting to complete delivery of all boats far ahead of schedule. With contracts for 54 IBs and 7 OPVs, L&T is positioned as the largest supplier of patrol vessels to the Indian Coast Guard.
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this is interestng
why on earth do we need to make frigates by ToT?

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for experience develoopement of pvt shipyards???

Russia offers to build Project 11356 frigates in India’s shipyards

Russia has made the proposal to India that Project 11356 frigates with improved performance be built in the shipyards of that country. This was reported in an interview by Vladimir Ereshenko, the head of the regional department of Rosoboronexport, with RIA Novosti.
He headed the Rosoboronexport delegation in the LIMA’15 arms exhibition held in late March in Langkawi (Malaysia).
“We presented an offer to the Indian side regarding the construction in local shipyards of additional Project 11356 frigates with improved tactical and technical properties,” said Ereshenko.
According to him, these offers are currently being considered by the customer. “Technical negotiations will be held on this theme in the near future,” said the department head.
He emphasized that Project 11356 frigates have worked well for the Indian Navy: “There is a need for ships of this class. That is why building another series in India would be a completely logical step.”
Russia has supplied India with six Project 11356 ships between 2003 and 2013. These were built at the “Baltic” factory in Saint Petersburg and the Kaliningrad “Amber” factory. The first three ships have the Russian Club-N cruise missile complex on board while the next three frigates are armed with BrahMos cruise missiles of Russian-Indian manufacture.
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Sikorsky To Make Naval Helicopters In India
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Sikorsky Aircraft Corp. will make India its only assembly location outside of the U.S. for one of its military helicopters if it wins contracts to build more than 120 helicopters from the South Asian nation, the company’s global defense business head said.



The S-70B Seahawk helicopters may be built either with the Tata Group with whom Sikorsky already has an alliance, or through a new partnership with another company in India, Samir Mehta, president of Sikorsky’s defence systems and services department, told The Wall Street Journal.


“We are very, very confident that the venture that we have now [with Tata] coupled with new relationships that we will form in the future will not only fulfill the needs of the Indian government but allow us to again fulfill requirements from other countries,” Mr. Mehta said.


Sikorsky is hoping to sell at least 139 of its S-70B Seahawk helicopters to India. In one order, on which a final decision is expected soon, it has been short listed to supply 16 of the helicopters. In a separate bid it is trying to win the order for 123 of the helicopters.

He didn’t disclose the investment that would be required to build a factory. Sikorsky now makes the S-70B helicopter in Stratford, Connecticut.



Sikorsky, a unit of United Technologies Corp., was chosen by the Indian government in December to supply 16 helicopters for its navy. The contract being discussed includes an option to buy eight additional helicopters.

The Indian Navy variant of the S-70B will include advanced sonar and 360-degree-search radar, air-to-surface missiles and torpedoes for anti-submarine and anti-surface warfare. It will also have the capability to fold up its blades and tail for easy storage on warships.

Mr. Mehta said he expects India to award the contract for the first 16 helicopters “in a matter of months.”

A senior official in the Indian Navy who asked not to be named said “commercial discussions with Sikorsky are in the final stages and the final deal will likely be signed soon.



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India buy two Airbus A-330 to become AWACS with national technology

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(Defensa.com) The Defense Acquisition Board (Defence Acquisition Council or DAC) chaired by Indian Defense Minister Manohar Parrikar has announced the development of an airborne air warning system (Airborne Warning and Control Systems or AWACS) to be installed Airbus A300 aircraft and operated by the Indian Air Force. The system will be developed by the Organization for Research and Development (Defence Research and Development Organisation or DRDO) for what you receive a budget of approximately 750 million euros for the acquisition of two systems to be based on A330 to be purchased from the manufacturer European Airbus. The program provides for the purchase of up to six airborne radar systems installed in two planes.

In April last year, the DRDO announced an international tender for the supply of six aircraft for conversion into aircraft airborne warning and control system (AWACS). The curious thing about this program is that not tendered a contract for six aircraft loaded full alert, but by six aircraft including modifications to be converted later into a platform such. For this they were contacted with aircraft manufacturers such as Boeing, Saab, Dassault Aviation, Airbus, Bombardier, or UAC (United Aircraft Corporation) that integrates Russian Ilyushin, Antonov and Sukhoi.

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This contest specified that builders must make structural modifications and certify to act as AWACS. The winner, as expected Airbus now announced, will design and manufacture the radome (the rotating antenna on the fuselage), attached to the fuselage and radome installation systems. The Centre for Airborne Systems (CABS), Bangalore, under the DRDO has specified that the radome should be ten meters. The six aircraft ordered will receive a new AWACS system developed by DRDO and would have a similar or higher than Phalcom capabilities in service but based on a more modern and inexpensive platform to operate.

Recall that the Indian Air Force currently operates as airborne air warning aircraft (AWACS) aircraft three Russian-made Ilyushin Il-76 radar systems Phalcom company Elta, a subsidiary of Israel Aerospace Industries. Furthermore, the DRDO is working on two Airborne Early Warning & Control (AEW & C) systems installed in smaller Embraer aircraft that must reach the Indian Air Force from this year.

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