July 18, 2006India has agreed to buy 80 Mi-17 combat transport helicopters from Russia in a contract that may be worth anything between $400 million to $500 million. The contract is due to be signed in 2006.
http://www.talkingtarmac.com/copter/copter-dhruv.asp
So, India is dictating terms in purchase deals now! Interesting!!
if one goes by the remarks it got at Farnborough Air Show, it is pretty impressive piece of equipment. Here is the link
http://tinyurl.com/l3jao
rgds
VT-ASJ
Seen a dhruv, been in a dhruv.....awesome fire spitting specs.
Good for Russia.