Iran in Talks to Buy 45 Airbus Choppers

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My point was, why make all these grand announcements about mass producing SABA and then turn around and bring in russian Helios .

South Korea started Hyundai in th late 80S . It was a disaster; they were complete POS of a car . They turned to Mitsubishi for a decade and now they build their own engines on various levels . I can tell from
experience they are junk at 100k compared to Honda, Toyota, VW ( engine gets sludge.
bearings go out ) but they went from below 0 to a competitor at world stage.

Iran should stick with one platform and start to produce it. I wish we would have a basic utility Helo and expand from there instead of importing from Airbus.

I agree.

We are also the victims of such grandiose announcements, only to have to swallow it back.

I don't know which country your leaders are confident about when it comes to co-developing helicopters. Maybe you should start with something like a Ka-226T. You'll have to order about 200+ in order to justify Russia's TOT to your country.