Aircraft
Yet More Mil Mi-17s Going to India
A sale worth more than $1 billion is likely, along with the choice of private Indian company Pipavev to assemble them.
Mil Mi-17V5 helicopters are supplanting large numbers of the earlier Mi-8 in Indian service. (Photo: Vladimir Karnozov)
Mil Mi-17V5 helicopters are supplanting large numbers of the earlier Mi-8 in Indian service. (Photo: Vladimir Karnozov)

The Indian defense ministry has asked Russia for the sale of an additional 48 Mil Mi-17V5 helicopters worth an estimated $1.1 billion. The new order was discussed at the Aero India show earlier this year, and apparently again during a meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi earlier this month in the Russian city of Ufa. Historically, big sales of Russian equipment into India have been agreed in principle at personal meetings between Putin and his Indian counterparts.


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