Argentina to buy Indian Helicopters

[Faceless]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1681976784122937345

https://twitter.com/x/status/1682028489120296962

India has signed a letter of Intent for the sale of Light and Medium lift helicopter.
Namely the LUH and Dhruv.

A letter of intent (LOI) is a legally binding document declaring the preliminary commitment of one party to do business with another, The letter outlines the basic terms and conditions of a prospective deal, after the signing of the LoI price negotiations and other procedures will take place.

HAL Light Utility Helicopter - Wikipedia

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HAL Dhruv - Wikipedia

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[baqai]

Excellent news for India and it's industry, not sure if the same can be said for Argentina

 

[Faceless]

I wonder what the number would be,
Anything below 20 would not be worth it, given how diplomatically active we were (by Indian standards) with Argentina in the last 1 year

 

[Thəorətic Muslim]

given how diplomatically active we were with Argentina in the last 1 year

Elaborate please.

 

[Raj-Hindustani]

Excellent news for India and it's industry, not sure if the same can be said for Argentina

Over 400 HAL made helicopters are flying.

These should not be the issue.

 

[Puffin]

I wonder what the number would be,
Anything below 20 would not be worth it, given how diplomatically active we were with Argentina in the last 1 year

Why would it not be worth it ?????

Even a single sale would be "worth it" as it could lead to further future orders and how "active" have we been.
Far Far less then professional outfits from Russia France China US etc

India ONLY ABOUT 2 WEEKS AGO started the policy of having ONE defence attaché at Indian embassy where defence sales are likely.

 

[Faceless]

Elaborate please.

in last 1 year
1. HAL head visited Argentina
2. Senior HAL officials were seen with the foreign minister S jaishankar during his visit to Argentina.
3. S jaishankar visited Argentina atleast 2 times (august 2022 and Feb 2023) in the last 1 year.
4. Argentine defence minister visited India (july 2023)
5. The Argentine Chief of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Juan Paleo visited India in october 2022.
6. Argentinean Airforce officials visited India and flew tejas.

Hope this explains what I meant

 

[Puffin]

in the last 1 year
1. HAL head visited Argentina
2. Senior HAL officials were seen with the foreign minister S jaishankar during visit to Argentina.
3. S jaishankar visited Argentina atleast 2 times (august 2022 and Feb 2023) in the last 1 year.
4. Argentine Foreign minister visited India
5. Argentine defence minister visited India too (july 2023)
6. The Argentine Chief of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Juan Paleo visited India on october 2022.
7. Argentinean Airforce officials visited India and flew tejas.

Hope this explains what I meant

Not quite
Is India UNIQUE
Have the Argies NOT visited other countries facilities
Over the years this amounts to minimal contact and Foreign ministers visit for all sorts of reasons

 

[Faceless]

Not quite
Is India UNIQUE

No India is not unique, but what India is doing right now is quite unique by Indian standards, we never used to do a similar thing for a defence sale in the past.

Have the Argies NOT visited other countries facilities

Obviously they have, but it was never at this scale with any other country in the recent past.
For example they have visited both Pakistan and China but it never materialised in a sale (at least not yet)

Over the years this amounts to minimal contact and Foreign ministers visit for all sorts of reasons

India Argentina ties were at the back burner for quite a long time, we are now revitalizing these ties and the main reason for doing so is sale of defence equipments.

 

[letsrock]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1681976784122937345

https://twitter.com/x/status/1682028489120296962

India has signed a letter of Intent for the sale of Light and Medium lift helicopter.
Namely the LUH and Dhruv.

A letter of intent (LOI) is a legally binding document declaring the preliminary commitment of one party to do business with another, The letter outlines the basic terms and conditions of a prospective deal, after the signing of the LoI price negotiations and other procedures will take place.

HAL Light Utility Helicopter - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

HAL Dhruv - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

LOL - a letter of intent is a legally binding document? - only in indian media.

 

[Abdul Rehman Majeed]

Excellent news for India and it's industry, not sure if the same can be said for Argentina

Argentina will surely regret their decision like Ecuador.

After 4 Crashes, Ecuador Grounds Fleet of Indian Dhruv Choppers, Cancels Contract

In a major setback for Hindustan Aeronautics Limited, the government of Ecuador which had bought seven Dhruv Advanced Light Helicopters from India has grounded all such remaining choppers in service and has unilaterally ended a contract with the state-owned Indian company.

www.ndtv.com

 

[NG Missile Vessels]

HAL Prachand

Made in India' systems and components on HAL Prachand:
●Integrated Avionics and Display System
●Digital Automatic Flight Control System by DARE/DRDO
●Digital mission computer and pylon interface boxes
●Flight control actuator system
●Impact absorbing landing gear
●EO sensors

Argentina will surely regret their decision like Ecuador.

After 4 Crashes, Ecuador Grounds Fleet of Indian Dhruv Choppers, Cancels Contract

In a major setback for Hindustan Aeronautics Limited, the government of Ecuador which had bought seven Dhruv Advanced Light Helicopters from India has grounded all such remaining choppers in service and has unilaterally ended a contract with the state-owned Indian company.

www.ndtv.com

https://twitter.com/x/status/1629126678202187776

 

[johncliu88]

Also, make sure there will be no UK made components on those choppers.

 

[Faceless]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1696824179176403292

https://twitter.com/x/status/1696826717552414866

 

[StraightEdge]

I wrote this earlier, again I will re-post it here. How will Argentina buy anything? They are on net negative foreign exchange reserves. More than anything Indian officials should ask how will Argentina pay for the purchases?

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50 helicopters for entire Argentina football team should be a good deal IMO.