Russia to open helicopter flight training center in India

• Russian Helicopters Holding (part of Rostec Corporation) intends to open a flight training center to train flight and mechanical personnel for Russian helicopters in the near future.
• Personnel undertaking training will include “both members from the Indian Ministry of Defense as well as the civilian sector.
• Russian produced helicopters began to be supplied to India in the 1950s. Initially, Indian pilots received the Mi-4, then helicopters along the Mi-8/17 model. The heavy Mi-26 helicopter, the military Mi-25/35, and the marine Ka-25, Ka-28 and Ka-31 also fly in Indian skies.
• Russian Helicopters informed RIA Novosti that as part of an earlier contract, in 2012-14, Russia had supplied 148 military transport Mi-17V-5 helicopters out of 151, the contract is planned to be completed by the end of the year.

Source: Defence News