The Comptroller and Auditor General in its report has pulled up the Indian Air Force (IAF) for framing its service specifications in the tenders for heavy lift and attack helicopters to suit “products of a particular vendor.” The IAF had chosen Chinook and Apache helicopters of Boeing from an evaluation process. The deliveries will begin this year.
The CAG also found in the audit that for the Apache attack helicopters, the United States government was supplying missiles from their stock whose “normal life of 10 years has expired.”
