Indian Navy floats $900 million tender for buying 56 choppers

[Damadji]

Indian Navy floats $900 million tender for buying 56 choppers


A global tender has been floated by the Indian Navy for procuring 56 Light Utility Helicopters (LUH) which are expected to cost over Rs4,000 crore and will replace the fleet of its vintage Cheetah and Chetak choppers.

The Navy has issued the tender for light choppers after the army and the IAF reached advanced stages of the process for procuring 197 LUHs for which Europe's Eurocopter and Russia's Kamov are in the race.

The tender for procuring 56 twin-engine Naval Utility Helicopters was issued earlier this week. It has been sent to major chopper makers including US firm Sikorsky, Eurocopter, Kamov and Italy's Agusta Westland, navy officials told PTI in Delhi.

The Navy has demanded that the helicopters should be capable of carrying out anti-submarine warfare (ASW) role and should be equipped with torpedoes and depth charges.

In the tender, the Navy has specified that the 4.5 tonne helicopters should have twin-engines to allow them to operate in rough sea conditions.

The Navy is also planning to use the chopper for its anti-piracy and anti-terrorism operations.

The request for information (RFI) for this chopper procurement has been issued twice. First was issued in late 2010 and the second was done in March last year.

The helicopters will be used for both shore-based and offshore operations and the Navy has specified they should be capable of operating from ship decks in adverse weather conditions during day and night.

The force also wants the choppers should be able to operate from snow-covered surface, sleet, sand, water and slush.

Navy floats $900 mn tender for utility choppers

Navy floats tender for buying 56 choppers - India - DNA

 

[Mercenary]

Will this be a MMCA style competition, where India proposes a tender various attack helicopters and then takes 11 years to decide which one to choose and another 4-5 years to finalize the contract and then another 3-4 years before first deliveries are made and then another 3-4 years before they are inducted into the Indian Armed Forces and by that time they are already obselete?

 

[Paan Singh]

Will this be a MMCA style competition, where India proposes a tender various attack helicopters and then takes 11 years to decide which one to choose and another 4-5 years to finalize the contract and then another 3-4 years before first deliveries are made and then another 3-4 years before they are inducted into the Indian Armed Forces and by that time they are already obselete?

typical pakistanis...

we initially went for mirage 2000 in mmrca den we have chosen rafale which is obsolete? eh....

 

[Mercenary]

typical pakistanis...

we initially went for mirage 2000 in mmrca den we have chosen rafale which is obsolete? eh....

You guys started this competion in 2001 and it took you until 2012 to finally choose a bird.

And now negotiations have just started on ToT and other finances.

These Rafale's wont be inducted into the Indian Air Force by atleast 2020.

 

[Bharthi]

Privatise HAL

 

[Damadji]

Will this be a MMCA style competition, where India proposes a tender various attack helicopters and then takes 11 years to decide which one to choose and another 4-5 years to finalize the contract and then another 3-4 years before first deliveries are made and then another 3-4 years before they are inducted into the Indian Armed Forces and by that time they are already obselete?

U mean we will get the best in the world with no strings attached and that too in good numbers

 

[INDIAISM]

Will this be a MMCA style competition, where India proposes a tender various attack helicopters and then takes 11 years to decide which one to choose and another 4-5 years to finalize the contract and then another 3-4 years before first deliveries are made and then another 3-4 years before they are inducted into the Indian Armed Forces and by that time they are already obselete?

Little correction in 2001 we thought about getting information of a fighter jets which could replace Mig 21 {like your president thought about purchasing J10 in 2006} and that's why we issued RFI in 2001......
But we issued RFP for MMRCA in August 2007 which will replace Mig 27 for which we recieved proposal till 28 April 2008.....and after that we started evaluation....That's means it took us around 5 years to finalise this deal.....Not much time for a 14 Billion dollar deal...

 

[KRAIT]

Will this be a MMCA style competition, where India proposes a tender various attack helicopters and then takes 11 years to decide which one to choose and another 4-5 years to finalize the contract and then another 3-4 years before first deliveries are made and then another 3-4 years before they are inducted into the Indian Armed Forces and by that time they are already obselete?

Actually there is no need to hurry. Who is going to attack us, while our IAF enjoys all the current ones in trials.

BTW Rafale is not obsolete, neither is M777, nor is AH-64 Apache Block III.....

 

[karan.1970]

Will this be a MMCA style competition, where India proposes a tender various attack helicopters and then takes 11 years to decide which one to choose and another 4-5 years to finalize the contract and then another 3-4 years before first deliveries are made and then another 3-4 years before they are inducted into the Indian Armed Forces and by that time they are already obselete?

And have 5 major world powers crazily wooing us during those 15 years

 

[Abingdonboy]

Will this be a MMCA style competition, where India proposes a tender various attack helicopters and then takes 11 years to decide which one to choose and another 4-5 years to finalize the contract and then another 3-4 years before first deliveries are made and then another 3-4 years before they are inducted into the Indian Armed Forces and by that time they are already obselete?

You guys started this competion in 2001 and it took you until 2012 to finally choose a bird.

And now negotiations have just started on ToT and other finances.

These Rafale's wont be inducted into the Indian Air Force by atleast 2020.

What BS are you talking? MMRCA in its current form has only been going on since earliest 2007/8, any program before that was not the MMRCA procurement we see today in the sense they were looking to procure Mirage 2000s and we're govt-govt deals. 2007/8 was the REAL MMRCA starting date in its current form ie 6 contenders before then there were only 2-4 contenders but SAAB and Boeing managed to squeeze themselves in. So ~4/5 years for technical evaluation and contractual negotiations- not bad on balance. Have you ANY idea of the mammoth task that went into analysing and evaluating 6 different platforms as varied as the 6 on offer? DO YOU? I suspect not because you are spouting the typical BS all you ignorant fan boys do. Somthing like 700 technical details had to be analysed and close 60,000 pages of evaluation reports were produced. All this had to be compiled and looked assessed then there had to be flight trials both in country and abroad in incredibly varied conditions from some of the highest airfields on earth to sea level and the barren desert, then there were weapons trails. No fighter selection has ever been carried out like this no been as complex, the fact is outsiders (WHO KNOW WHAT THE EFF THEY'RE TALKING ABOUT) have been stunned by the effeicent, proffesionlism and competency of the IAF for being able to carry out a selection process as incredibly complex as this and yet come to such logical and fair conclusions. Literally only a handful of nations and AFs could have done what the IAF has done (the PAF is defeinelty not one of them) with such stellar results. The IAF has impressed so much that they have patented their selection process and now other nations such as Brazil and the UAE who are in the midst of their own selection process have requested IAF expertise in selecting the apropriate fighter for them.


Use some intelligence before you go spouting utter nonsense pal.

 

[Ammyy]

Will this be a MMCA style competition, where India proposes a tender various attack helicopters and then takes 11 years to decide which one to choose and another 4-5 years to finalize the contract and then another 3-4 years before first deliveries are made and then another 3-4 years before they are inducted into the Indian Armed Forces and by that time they are already obselete?

Dnt worry how much time India take to choose you will not get any thing close to our MMRCA in this decade ... be happy with your Chinese maal

 

[angeldemon_007]

Indian Navy floats $900 million tender for buying 56 choppers

Per unit cost == 16 million $....what kind of chopper is IN purchasing ? Naval Fennec cost less than 5 million$...
Is IN gonna purchase a little bit larger helicopter like AS 565 MB Panther or Super Lynx 300 in this category ?

This ...

Fennec AS 555 SN

OR THESE ???

Super Lynx 300

AS 565 MB Panther

 

[SamantK]

What BS are you talking?
Use some intelligence before you go spouting utter nonsense pal.

He might be incorrect in this but he is a sane member, I would request you to use your better judgement.

 

[UKBengali]

India should spend the money to develop and procure it's own LUH.

After all they should be able to use a lot of the technology from their LCH programme.

Always going after foreign procurement will mean India will never be able to make world class weapons.

Look where China is now compared to India.

 

[EzioAltaïr]

India should spend the money to develop and procure it's own LUH.

After all they should be able to use a lot of the technology from their LCH programme.

Always going after foreign procurement will mean India will never be able to make world class weapons.

Look where China is now compared to India.

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Indigenous production? Here:

HAL Dhruv - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Yes genius we have our own UH.

Defence Research and Development Organisation - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

We have made tons of our equipment internally, and the need for foreign procurement is dwindling. Our navy is almost completely indigenous, except for it's Aircraft Carrier. By 2020 or so, our army will almost completely be reliant on indigenous production. By 2025 the Air Force will also start getting that way.