I'm the one making up stuff?
Arey forget Navy NUH. They're competition not getting anywhere and right now their looking at leasing Airbus Panther.
Nope, such terrible comparison.
What next? You will imply LUH and Mi-17 are in same class?
The point is, the RFI was perfectly okay with a helo like Eurocopter Fennec - which is in
EXACT SAME WEIGHT & PERFORMANCE CLASS AS HAL LUH, in fact it's slightly worse.
This whole thing about twin-engine, better handling blah blah is something you are making up to justify a purchase AFTER the fact. If those were original requirements, then Fennec would never have been allowed to compete.
You've been utterly unable to address this point.
Operational cost of twin-engine helo is same as single engine ?
If you are feeling insane, do get help
So you think maintenance cost of a engine is directly proportional to how much power it produces?
And as of frequency, FYI, all Turbomeca engines have more or less similar TBO figures.
Yeah, that's why they forgot to put it in RFI, until uncle Flying Dagger reminded them
Go read some history.
Look up how MiG-29s came in when what IAF wanted was more Mirage-2000s. How Kilos came in when what they wanted was more Type-209s. Maybe if you gain some perspective on how forces were historically stared down by political masters, you'd act a bit more informed.
Either something is political that you have to pay exorbitant amounts to buy it even if it doesn't make any sense (like Ka-226, Mig-29, AK203, Vikramditya, Talwar Batch-3, Kilo etc list is endless), or something is so tactically important that you have to buy it even when US threatening sanctions (like S400).
You can't have it both ways buddy.
At least make up your mind as to what your argument is.
Is it political? Or is it tactically relevant? If it was relevant why scrap earlier RFI (where Fennec was frontrunner) and go for G2G? In case of Rafale we did it as numbers had to be reduced as license production scrapped, but here numbers were same, and none of the license production rules changed, so why?
In one post you say its because there is legit requirement, in one post you say its for hedging bets, in another you say deals always political
WTF, make up your mind