Ecuadorian Air Force selling its remaining Dhruv helicopters

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One can't discount this possibility. Let's not forget that this was HAL's first major export deal and that too to a customer halfway across the world where HAL has ZERO presence. The global OEMs HAL competes with (Airbus, Bell etc) have offices in pretty much every major capital and has at least a footprint in every market whether that be civilian or military. The production side is one thing but the support side is just as important and here I know HAL are working furiously on. Most military systems these days are unfathamobly complex and require extensive specialist support throughout their lifespan.

so what, you signed a piece of paper "contract" agreeing to sell them choppers and provide training and maintenance.
ok you can have a bit of slack for them being one of the first export clients, but them being half way arpund the world? no. look at peru and suriname? there just as far. and yes i know choppers are complex pieces of kit.
actually i have my eyes on a robinson r44/66 but once i get my licence.

Pretty much every top notch system out there (F-22, Rafale, Typhoon, AH-64, Ch-47, C-17, P-8 etc etc) require an increidble ammount of support from their OEMs thereafter so it would be false to try and make out the ALH was an outlier in this regard, on the contrary it is very much in line with any other modern military product out there that would become u/s in a matter of days without proper maintainence. There is no such thing as a simple cutting edge military system anymore.

thats with everything (maintainance). and the top notch is vague. the f22 and the typhoon are indeed top notch. as they are the best in their class and are ridiculously complicated. transporters are not exactly "complex as compared to the f22 or typhoon.

This was always going to be a bumpy road, one doesn't become a success overnight. Lessons will be learnt and applied for the future.

ok thats true. but the fact its been inducted quiet successfully and one messed up
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end of the day i think it more of a problem with the client.
they open a tender asking for a chopper thats cheap and cheap to maintain
sounds good right? but ask your self is it cheap to buy the parts and authenticate(making sure the works is done to spec) and you have efficiency and training. think of it like this, when you buy a an amazon kindle at a a cheap price you think its too good to be true. but once you have it and stuck with it. you realise you need to go to the amazon store to buy books and there no cheap. same thing applies to printers too. the printer it self is cheap bu the ink is not. but one can bypass that by getting refills, recently a printer manufacturer blocked third party cartridges from being used and reversed it due to the backlash

its robustness simply due to its inherited airframe from the bk117 and mbb helped with designing it.