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Thursday, August 19, 2010

Russia continues to dominate Indian military aviation

Su-30MKIRussia is set to win another Indian order for 59 multi-role helicopters in addition to the 80 ordered earlier, retaining Moscow’s traditionally dominant lead in selling military aircraft to India.

The Indian Air Force (IAF) chief, Air Chief Marshal P.V. Naik, told India Strategic defence magazine (www.indiastrategic.in) in an interview that the delivery of the first lot of 80 Mi-17 V5 helicopters, ordered in 2008, would begin from later this year while it is now processing another order for an additional 59 machines.

The IAF’s recent request for 42 Sukhoi SU-30MKIs has already been cleared by the defence ministry, taking the number of the air dominance combat jets on order to a sizeable 272.

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