New Delhi: India’s twin plans of replacing its vintage Avro carriers for the air force and opening up the military aviation sector for private companies appear to have hit a roadblock.
In May, the Defence Ministry issued a global tender for a Rs 12,000-crore programme to acquire 56 carriers for replacing Indian Air Force's vintage Avros fleet. While the first 16 aircraft will be delivered by a foreign manufacturer in flyaway conditions, the remaining 40 will be made in an Indian production facility, be it in the public or private sector. The underlying aim was to open up military aviation for private companies.
But foreign vendors are now raising red-flags. They are showing their discomfort to tie up with an Indian company and start a production facility only for the sake of producing 40 aircraft.
“It will be not be easy because the aircraft to be produced are not so many,” officials from one of the companies participating in the tender process told Deccan Herald.
READ nes in Ful 22/07/13 Kalyan Ray/Deccan Herald
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