The Indian Navy received two MH 60R multi-role helicopters from the United States at the Cochin International Airport on Thursday.
The delivery of all the 24 MH 60 R multirole helicopters will be completed by 2025.
The Indian Navy received two MH 60R multi-role helicopters from the United States at Cochin International Airport on Thursday. The helicopters were delivered by the Special Air Assignment Mission Flight of the US Air Force.
The helicopters were part of the 24 MH 60 R Multirole helicopters being procured by India from the United States at a cost of over 14,000 crore rupees. The first three helicopters delivered last year in the US in 2021 are being utilized for training the Indian Navy crew. Another helicopter is scheduled to be delivered on August 22.
The first tranche of #MH 60R helos were received by #IndianNavy at @KochiAirport with the traditional welcome ceremony.
Delivered by @usairforce Special Air Assignment Mission Flight, these add to the 3 delivered earlier in Jun 21 in #UnitedStates.@SpokespersonMoD pic.twitter.com/sTQ3LSxV0t— SpokespersonNavy (@indiannavy) July 28, 2022
Delivery of all 24 MH 60R helicopters will be completed by 2025.
The induction of state of the art mission capable platforms will significantly boost the integral #ASW capability of @indiannavy.https://t.co/eACf08LssI pic.twitter.com/cPT24NoZhm
— PRO Defence Kochi (@DefencePROkochi) July 28, 2022
“The delivery of all the 24 MH 60 R multirole helicopters will be completed by 2025. The induction of these helicopters will significantly boost the integral Anti-Submarine Warfare (ASW) capability of the Indian Navy,”said the Indian Navy officials.
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