18-May-2015 Source: The Economic Times
Hidden in the details of the government’s Wednesday big-bang ‘Make in India’ push in the defence production was the fine print about the Russian deal, by nomination not tender, to manufacture 200 Kamov Ka 226 light helicopters, so desperately needed to replace the ageing Cheetah fleet which services one of the world’s highest military deployments on the Siachen glacier. Work on this had begun right after Russian President Vladimir Putin’s visit in December. See Full Story