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really a nice looking copter!!!any idea about how much it costs??per piece?/
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I personally want to see ATAK in PA inventory as it will give us Home production option which we cant get with apache longbow or Super Cobra.
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really a nice looking copter!!!any idea about how much it costs??per piece?/
Surprise: Turkey favors Alenia in attack helicopter tender
Turkey on Thursday selected Italy's Agusta Westland's Mangusta A 129 model in its long-standing attack and tactical reconnaissance helicopter acquisition project, eliminating South African Denel's Rooivalk.
The most important reason for Mangusta's selection was the price differences with Denel, Defense Minister Vecdi Gönül said at the end of an around three-and-a-half-hour meeting of the Executive Committee of the Undersecretariat for the Defense Industry (SSM), the top decision-making organ in Turkish arms procurement. The committee is composed of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, Minister Gönül and Chief of General Staff Gen. Yaşar Büyükanıt. "The project [for attack helicopter acquisition] has been finalized after 12 years," said Gönül.
When asked, Gönül stated that the project cost for the production of 50 helicopters would be around $2.7 billion. TUSAS Aerospace Industries (TAI) will be the main contractor and Alenia will be sub-contractor in the project, Gönül added, noting that the project would be called T-129 from now on, marking a Turco-Italian joint partnership in developing the helicopters.
Though the minister did not reveal the figures, Denel reportedly offered slightly less than 50 percent of Alenia's bid for the production of the helicopters with a high local content. With earlier speculation that the Turkish Armed Forces (TSK) favored the US Apache or King Cobra for an off-the-shelf purchase, the SSM Executive Committee decision to select Italy's Alenia came as a surprise.
I have some doubts about that! Turkey may have the intellectual and sale rightes for this version, but it is still a version of the Agosta Westland 129 and includes also an US engine. If the US won't allow production in Pakistan for their own helicopters and parts, why should they do it for foreign competitior?
I think the WZ-10 would give more chances for such a licence production, maybe even upgraded with weapons, or avionics from Turkey.
i think till 2015 we would hav started our own attack heli program..
we dnt need wz-10 or Atak under TOT..
any one knw how much time it take to develop indegenous attack heli?
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when we can import engine frm china for our attack heli?
He said till 2015 we'll start our own heli program not productionHas Pakistan made a plan for Attack Heli, I dint know that, could You give its specs please??? I would like to read it.
Has Pakistan made a plan for Attack Heli, I dint know that, could You give its specs please??? I would like to read it.
He said till 2015 we'll start our own heli program not production
No we will start our own i am sure.
bt nt before 2014-15
For 40-50 helicopters, Pakistan would definitely not be looking at full home production, but it may look after producing some critical components which are needed regularly and are more critical sanctions prone. So that in case of any sanctions, we can produce them at home and not rely fully on abroad suppliers.
Some local production would be needed by Pakistan to offset some critical sanction prone things.
We can't digest such high tech at this stage of time, but we can become a supplier of critical parts for ourselves and also for the Turks if the platform has export success.
True for avionics from Turkey maybe, but not critical engine parts from US right? And that's what I meant, if the aim would be to get a licence production, or a sanction prove solution, then the WZ-10 with avionics and weapons from Turkey would be the better choice.