Reliance Defence had last month signed a Strategic Partnership Agreement with ANTONOV Company of Ukraine for Assembly, Manufacture & MRO of Antonov Platforms in India, both for the Commercial and the Military Market.
Reliance Defence together with ANTONOV would jointly address various requirements including 50-80 seat passenger aircraft program of the HAl, in its basic configuration and in all its variants such as transport, maritime patrol and other military roles.
The world’s largest cargo aircraft ‘Antonov An-225 Mriya’ is scheduled to make its first landing in India on 13th May 2016 at the Rajiv Gandhi International airport at Hyderabad.