New Delhi: Boeing Co.appears set to get about $2.4 billion in military contracts from India, with a senior official saying that the country's the U.S. company's Chinook and Apache helicopters, and that commercial negotiations will begin soon.
India plans to buy a total of 15 Chinook CH-47F heavy-lift helicopters and 22 AH-64D Block III Apache helicopters, the official said.
He added that Boeing's twin-rotor Chinook was chosen recently as the preferred bidder over Russia-based MiL Moscow Helicopter Plant's Mi-26, while the Apache was selected over the Mi-28.
05/11/12 Santanu Choudhury/Wall Street Journal
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India plans to buy a total of 15 Chinook CH-47F heavy-lift helicopters and 22 AH-64D Block III Apache helicopters, the official said.
He added that Boeing's twin-rotor Chinook was chosen recently as the preferred bidder over Russia-based MiL Moscow Helicopter Plant's Mi-26, while the Apache was selected over the Mi-28.
05/11/12 Santanu Choudhury/Wall Street Journal
