Such a shame they didn't go down this route rather than flog a dead horse.
Who with and what?
Eurocopter? I think not. They don' seem to be friends at the moment.
Boeing? They don't have anything that fits the bill.
McDonnell-Douglas? As above.
Bell? I don't think Agusta would be too keen on building the competitors aircraft.
Sikorsky? As above.
Mil? Interesting.
HAL? Only if you like flock wallpaper inside your aircraft. And the Dhruv makes FLynx look like an X Wing fighter.
Sort of narrows the market place down a bit doesn't it?
I think the days of kit built licensed aircraft are a thing of the pre Agusta past. It was a matter of necessity to glue other aircraft together prior to the life line chucked by Finmeccanica/Agusta. There aint a lot of 'love' between helicopter manufacturers nowadays. Westland in the GKN days used to be a reasonably 'neutral' asset for manufacturers to reach into the UK.