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The MMRCA deal, which is expected to be concluded by the end of this year, will require pre-payments for the flyaway aircraft to be supplied by Dassault Aviation, followed by regularised payments that will total up to $20-billion, making it India's largest single defence deal in hiStory. The Indian Army is in the final stages of evaluating contenders for $6-billion deal for very short-range air defence systems (VSHORADS). The Indian Navy, after years of delay, is finally ready to push out a formal requirement for six conventional attack submarines under the P75I programme. There is no suggestion yet that any of these programmes will be directly delayed or impacted, though a budget slash is almost always a cause for concern for acquisition managers and the armed forces, since the squeeze will involve inter-service prioritisation as far as procurements are concerned. Other big-ticket programmes currently in various stages, include the procurement of 16 multi-role helicopters for the Navy (to be followed by 75 more under the NMRH programme), the medium-range maritime reconnaissance aircraft (MRMR) for the Navy, 56 naval utility helicopters (NUH), 56 replacement aircraft for the IAF's old HS-748 Avro transports and several others.