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India puts out RfI for recce, surveillance helo - IHS Jane's 360
Rahul Bedi, New Delhi - IHS Jane's Defence Industry
05 October 2014
Rahul Bedi, New Delhi - IHS Jane's Defence Industry
05 October 2014
India's Ministry of Defence (MoD) dispatched a request for information (RfI) on 29 September to local vendors for reconnaissance and surveillance helicopters for the Army Aviation Corps (AAC) and the Indian Air Force (IAF).
The Reconnaissance and Surveillance Helicopter (RSH) RfI, which requires the vendors to respond by 11 November, follows the MoD's 29 August termination of the long-pending Light Utility Helicopter (LUH) tender for 197 imported platforms.
Instead, the MoD opted to locally source around 440 single-engines, 2-2.5 ton platforms under the 'Make and Buy (Indian)' category of its Defence Procurement Procedures (DPP). This approach is in line with the BJP government's policy of indigenously developing and building weapon systems, in order to reduce dependency on imported materiel.