Reliance Defence signs pact with 3 Ukranian cos

New Delhi:  Reliance Defence has signed strategic partnership agreement with three Ukranian state- owned companies which will allow them to collaborate on a range of military products including transport aircraft, upgrade of armoured vehicles, maritime gas turbines and unmanned aerial vehicles. The development follows a meeting between Reliance Group Chairman Anil Ambani and Ukranian President Petro Poroshenko in Ukraine this week. “A Strategic Partnership Agreement was signed between State Owned Ukroboronprom of Ukraine and Reliance Defence, which will allow it to collaborate with Antonov for its range of military and commercial transport aircraft,” a statement by Reliance said. Under the agreement with Antonov, both companies will jointly bid for the medium military transport aircraft programme of the HAL, it said.