India bought helicopters Obama rejected as costly

February 13, 2013 10:51

US president Barack Obama had found a variant of the AW-101 helicopters too exorbitant to pass muster in 2009. But theIndian government had no such qualms while inking the Rs 3,546-crore deal for 12 plush AW-101 helicopters just a year later in 2010. Read

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