Thats why Dassault is eager to works with Reliance.
Reliance would import whole production line from Dassault because they have nill facility for that & then they could only assemble Dassault supplied kit which dassault may be manufactured in India. So, Dassault have complete control of technology & Reliance would only absorb Screwdriver technology.
Exactly and Reliance as most privat industry players is driven by making profits, no matter for what part they produce. The long term gain for Indian aviation, or future Indian developments has no priority and that's divides offset production or assembling of kits, which our industry had done for decades, with proper licence production under critical ToT, as well as joint developments that we have access to today.
@sancho i think IN should scrap this tender and go for a mix of N-Dhruv and N-LUH.
We still don't know if that system will be an automatic one, but I doubt that HAL's LUH will fit the requirements, while N-ALH surely could if that problem is solved.
The N-ALH is too heavy for the IN's N-LUH requirements
Buddy you keep claiming that for years, but it still remains to be wrong:
https://defence.pk/threads/naval-ut...ke-indian-category.338361/page-3#post-6818047
The emptyweight is the important one, to compare the alternatives, not the MTOW, because the latter is dependent on the load or specific mission, while the earlier is deciding if the helicopter can be operated from the vessels we intend to. Besides that these LUH only do SAR and light utilitly roles, with the heaviest duty being lifting slung loads from one vessel to another, but that again after the take off!
The IN can't wait around forever for HAL to maybe, potentially, offer something that meets their needs one day.
They don't have to, they could had put more effort into further developing the naval dhruv and already have that problem solved, just as into the indigenous development of an NMUH, but they didn't, because they want foreign helicopters!
If they had invested the money they wasted on N-LCA, into developing an indigenous naval helicopter fleet, they would had benefited way more, because they would get 100s of aircrafts, specifically designed for their needs, with the full needed capability to take on every mission. While NLCA will remain a low capable fighter in limited numbers.
As it stands they can have new N-LUHs in service to replace their 40+ year old Chetaks within 3-4 years
And how long would it take to develop an automatic folding system for N-ALH? Not to mention the faster induction and far lower costs (unit, maintenance, upgrades).