Ready to provide VVIP choppers to India: Sikorsky
21 Feb 2015 11:15 PM GMT
United States-based helicopter manufacturer Sikorsky, which made an unsuccessful bid to supply its S-92 choppers to India, on Friday said it was ready to provide VVIP transport helicopters whenever the government chooses to re-tender them. “If and when the Indian government chooses to re-tender the VVIP (transport helicopters), we will be ready, and we know we have the solution-aircraft in the world, which is going to be for the long time the best executive transport,” a top official of United Technologies Company, parent company of Sikorsky, told reporters on the margins of the Aero India 2015 here.
Sikorsky, which pitched its S-92 helicopter but lost to AgustaWestland in the initial tender, was ready to take part once again, Vice President (Defense Systems and Sevives) Robert Kokorda said.
India had cancelled the deal for 12 VVIP helicopters with Italian defence group Finmeccanica’s AugustaWestland unit last year over an alleged scam in the deal. These helicopters are used to carry high-ranking officials.
Sikorsky, which pitched its S-92 helicopter but lost to AgustaWestland in the initial tender, was ready to take part once again, Vice President (Defense Systems and Sevives) Robert Kokorda said.
India had cancelled the deal for 12 VVIP helicopters with Italian defence group Finmeccanica’s AugustaWestland unit last year over an alleged scam in the deal. These helicopters are used to carry high-ranking officials.
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