Sapper
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Dear,
Pakistan operates a very small Chopper Fleet, with ~40 Attack (AH-1 Cobra) , 60~80 Medium Transport (Mi17,Bell412,Puma), 20~30 Small Transport (Aluette/Lama,Fennec), and ~20 Marine. This small requirement does not warrant an economically viable Helicopter development program, since you need to produce at-least 150~200 articles to get break even.
Many defense programs like F22 and B2 have been financial burden on US economy since the 750+ F22 mark and 60+ B2 mark were not reached. The development cost of these programs was around 60 Billion USD each just for R&D.
Pakistan cannot afford to invest 200~500 Million USD on an R&D effort just to produce 30~40 articles of a single type.
Its much much cheaper to buy them off the shelf for the time being.
Regards,
Sapper
Pakistan operates a very small Chopper Fleet, with ~40 Attack (AH-1 Cobra) , 60~80 Medium Transport (Mi17,Bell412,Puma), 20~30 Small Transport (Aluette/Lama,Fennec), and ~20 Marine. This small requirement does not warrant an economically viable Helicopter development program, since you need to produce at-least 150~200 articles to get break even.
Many defense programs like F22 and B2 have been financial burden on US economy since the 750+ F22 mark and 60+ B2 mark were not reached. The development cost of these programs was around 60 Billion USD each just for R&D.
Pakistan cannot afford to invest 200~500 Million USD on an R&D effort just to produce 30~40 articles of a single type.
Its much much cheaper to buy them off the shelf for the time being.
Regards,
Sapper