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Snehesh Alex Philip is the Editor - Defence and Diplomacy. With over 19 years of experience across newspaper, newswire, TV and digital, Snehesh comes with a wider approach to news that helps him bring out the nuances and undercurrents of a story. He has reported from over 20 countries and is also the youngest Indian journalist to be posted to Pakistan where he was Islamabad-based Chief of Bureau for 9 months while working with Press Trust of India. She can be reached at snehesh.philip@theprint.in and is available on X @sneheshphilip
The aircraft ‘slinging’ the Chinook in the picture shown, is not an Mi-26. That is a Sikorsky CH-53/S-65 helicopter.
But at what cost. You make no mention of what the Russian copter costs versus the Boeing. It makes a huge difference!