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Defence Minister Harjit Sajjan will visit India later this month and the Indians are apparently interested in used Canadian military equipment.

Specifically, the RCAF’s Sea King helicopters, according to India’s Financial Express newspaper.

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To meet the urgent helicopter requirement of the Indian Navy, India is expected to discuss acquiring Sea King CH-124 helicopters during the visit, sources told the newspaper. “At this time Canada is in the process of decommissioning four of its Sea King CH-124 helicopters,” one of the sources told the Express. “These four have very little hours of flying logged in, and four that were decommissioned last December were recently upgraded.”

India’s Sea King fleet has reached the end of its operational life and there is the potential for the Canadian helicopters to bridge the gap between now and the time new helicopters are purchased, according to the sources.

India’s plan to buy 16 S-70B helicopters is stalled and other procurements to purchase more than 100 maritime helicopters are also being delayed for various reasons.