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So they don't get sanctioned under CAATSA.

GoI is using it as a bargaining chip for S-400 waiver.

$72.6 million for the French offer, $109 million for this, the Italians are blacklisted but their ASW chopper is $107 million.

Airbus has offered its H225M helicopter in response to the Indian Navy's initial tender for 123 Naval Multi Role Helicopters (NMRH) https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/defence/airbus-offers-to-set-up-global-production-hub-in-india-for-panther-helicopter/articleshow/63771956.cms?from=mdr

The things they are going to buy with COMCASA clearance.

When the price of the Caracal is $72.6 million including ASW kit and the SeaHawk is $109 million, it is clear who should be L1. Caracal had won L1 in Poland with a contract already signed and then a pro-US government change reneged on the deal after we had cancelled sale of Mistral to Russia at...

The point of these forums is to examine a set of jumbled facts and to piece them together to find those reasons. If everyone here was making independent conclusions they are living in a bubble and not challenging themselves to find the truth. I challenge the premise of others so I can find...

The best you can find is one loss of the civilian version of the helicopter? There were 18 crashes of Black Hawks just in 2018.

Cougar is not the Caracal, Germany doesn't have any. Cougar was made before I was born.

NH-90 was never an option as Leonardo is blacklisted. The offer from us was the Caracal, a completely French helicopter and superior in every way to MH60.

US defence lobby most likely, their tentacles run deep. What other method is there?

I doubt it, France is home of Thales Underwater Systems, the world leader in anti-submarine warfare. Even the US buys kit from them. It would make sense if it was cheaper than our offer, but it isn't.

French helicopters are the most capable in their weight class but are expensive, to pay more for a less capable American chopper doesn't make sense. It is clear why Russia is successful, dirt cheap for something that just works.

Why would you pay that much for an inferior helicopter?

This would be good political leverage, if Trump wants to sell these in exchange for an S-400 CAATSA waiver.

Will the IN be buying Dhruv Mk3?

They must be pretty high requirements, what little testing the ADF has done shows: We have fired the thing over 200 times and have success rates well into the 90th percentile. Australia is mad it is over budget and doesn't want to spend the money to integrate it to airbourne platforms or buy...

Why? Because Aussies are too cheap to fund integration for airbourne platforms? :lol:

Some things just won't be known until you put it in the field. It is covered under contract at NHI expense to fix the problem.

Considering the windshield is made by a UK sub-contractor, it doesn't really bode anything about the complex aspects of the aircraft. It is not something that is simulated for faulty English plexi.