{"id":8867,"date":"2017-02-20T20:24:22","date_gmt":"2017-02-20T14:54:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kashmir.today\/?p=8867"},"modified":"2017-02-20T20:24:22","modified_gmt":"2017-02-20T14:54:22","slug":"russia-to-start-deliveries-of-helicopters-to-india-in-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=8867","title":{"rendered":"Russia to start deliveries of helicopters to India in 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>Moscow:<\/strong> Russia will start initial deliveries of military helicopters to India in 2018, with assembly and manufacturing to follow in Asia&#8217;s fastest growing economy, the chief executive of state-owned manufacturer Russian Helicopters said on Monday.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>India and Russia signed an agreement in October to jointly manufacture 200 of the KA-226T helicopters for the Indian Armed Forces.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Both countries have agreed to cooperate in energy and defense as India seeks to modernise its armed forces and build a nuclear industry and sanctions-hit Russia looks for investment and new markets.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;The joint venture is in process and the first delivery will start in 2018. After-sales service will also be provided in India,&#8221; said Andrey Boginsky, who took over as CEO in January.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Some 60 helicopters will be delivered to India and the remaining 140 will be assembled or manufactured in India, he said at the International Defence Exhibition in Abu Dhabi.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The company has started production of the advanced medium multirole Mi-171A2 helicopter, with four deliveries set for Russia this year, he said.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>China has shown an interest in the Mi-171A2, he added, without elaborating.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Overall sales in 2017 are expected to grow at least 15 per cent as demand for civil helicopters increases.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;We expect to sell 220 helicopters this year,&#8221; he said compared to 190 sold in 2016. Military helicopters account for two-thirds of sales.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;There is demand for civil helicopters and we plan to increase volumes,&#8221; he said, adding that a key market is Iran, where there is demand from the oil and gas sector<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Moscow: Russia will start initial deliveries of military helicopters to India in 2018, with assembly and manufacturing to follow in Asia&#8217;s fastest growing economy, the chief executive of state-owned manufacturer Russian Helicopters said on Monday. India and Russia signed an agreement in October to jointly manufacture 200 of the KA-226T helicopters for the Indian Armed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8868,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8867","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8867"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8867\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}