Press Trust of India,
BERLIN: In a bid to strengthen the offensive prowess of its armed forces, Indian government has issued a Request for Proposal (RFP) to acquire 22 attack helicopters.
The RFP document, which includes offset clauses, was issued last week to major global helicopter manufacturers who were given three months time to respond, sources said here.
Confirming this, a senior Eurocopter official said “we have received the RFP and are looking into it. We have to reply by August.”
“We will be participating in the bid process and will offer our Tiger helicopter. We are studying the RFP document and preparing our plan of action,” Bruno Boulnois, General Manager of Eurocopter (India) told PTI.
Besides Eurocopter which is part of the defence and aviation consortium EADS, the other major contenders for this competition are Boeing's AH-64D, Augusta Westland's AW-129 Mangusta and Russia's MI-28N NightHunters.
