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Thursday, December 04, 2008

India to buy 80 choppers from Russia

India would buy 80 medium-lift Mi-17 helicopters from Russia for Rs 6,500 crore, the Cabinet Committee on Security (CCS) decided on Tuesday.

A senior official, who preferred anonymity, said on Wednesday that the latest version of the Mi-17 choppers, the main troop-movers for the Indian Army, would join an existing fleet of 200 Mi-17s.

The CCS's decision to buy the choppers and renegotiate the terms of the Gorshkov aircraft carrier deal came two days before the arrival of Russian President Dimitry Medvedev to India.

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