Bad effing move, unless they got TOT. That's the only time this much $$$$ for each heli make sense.
@MastanKhan : Here's another example of the bad planning. This heli costs about 10-14 million
Euros, meaning $ 14-18 million USD. Pakistan could've built it internally for this much per heli cost by paying the Turks and the Chinese for their Atak and Z-18 and Z-20 TOT. You could buy used F-16's for this much, which is a more critical need for the PAF, and spend a couple of millions more to get the STAR/LIFT and MLU!!
I don't know why these guys keep making bad decisions!! For this much money, if flying at a height was an issue, the Russians would've sold you upgraded and newer KA's, MI's, etc and 1.5 heli's for each one of these. You could've also received slightly used Black Hawks for this price tag. These heli's are single purpose only and can't be used in combat either. Very expensive bad move. I don't want to sound like IK and start crying corruption. But this deal doesn't make sense and may have a lobby or love ($$$$) component to it.