Indian Air Force: News and Discussions - III

Which aircraft will win the MMRCA competition

  • Dassault Rafale

    Votes: 75 37.5%
  • MiG-35 Fulcrum-F

    Votes: 5 2.5%
  • JAS-39 Gripen IN

    Votes: 11 5.5%
  • F-16IN Super Viper

    Votes: 3 1.5%
  • Eurofighter Typhoon

    Votes: 89 44.5%
  • F/A-18E/F Super Hornet

    Votes: 17 8.5%

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A film to highlight IAF’s prowess in sky

Kolkata: The Indian Air Force (IAF) is all set to screen its latest film in the city on the capabilities of the country’s air defence. Aakash Yodha, a 45-minute film is the updated version of an earlier film released with the same name in 2003. The film provides an insight into various aircrafts and supporting equipment that the IAF uses under diverse conditions.

More importantly, the film is the first one commissioned by the IAF that includes a glimpse of the indigenously-developed Tejas Light Combat Aircraft.

The Tejas is being developed by the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) and has given rise to much scepticism in the IAF during its development stage. Predictably, the Tejas features at the very end of the film for a short duration as compared to the already-inducted fighter planes like Mirage 2000H, MiG 29 and MiG21bis.

A senior IAF officer said: “We don’t want to be saddled with outdated technology in the name of indigenous development. Developing a world-class fighter aircraft in India is very important and welcome. Importing foreign-made aircraft is hugely expensive, both to the national exchequer as well as the IAF budget. But the Tejas or any other indigenously developed fighter plane must use world-class technology.”
 

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AESA one up on the PESA

While most conventional airborne radars rely on some form of mechanically scanned antenna to transmit and receive signals, active electronically scanned array (AESA) sensors employ a fixed aperture.

This steers their outputs via the individual control of the phase of the transmitted/received signal at each of the radiating elements that make up the aperture.

Use of such an electronic rather than mechanical scanning approach facilitates extreme beam agility in near real time (with one source suggesting that an AESA can move an output beam from one point to another in "less than a millisecond").

When added to the 'active' element of the technology, this increases overall system reliability, allows for simultaneous multi-mode functionality and opens the door to the possibility of using a single aperture for radar, electronic warfare and communications tasks.

Confusion can arise between AESA and passive electronically scanned array (PESA) technology. The crucial difference lies in the AESA's use of an array of active transmit/receive (T/R) modules to drive its radiator elements and the PESA's employment of a central transmitter and arrays of electronically-controlled phase shifters that are located behind each radiating element or column of radiating elements. The necessary shifts in signal phase are controlled via a dedicated beam steering controller or the architecture's central processor.

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India's MiG-29s are safe, says Air Force chief

KOLKATA: Chief of Air Staff, Air Marshal Fali Homi Major, assured that the MiG-29 aircraft used by the IAF were safe, amidst media reports that

Russia had grounded a large number of its MiG-29 fleet because of structural defects.

"I have read the report. But you must understand that MiG-29s are of various series. I don't know the details of what series of aircraft the Russians are talking about. We had carried out checks with our aircraft and we have no problem with them," Major told newsmen here.

He said the induction of new aircraft into the Air Force was going on "wonderfully well" as per schedule. "We are getting everything that we had asked for. There is government support and things are falling in place as per our plans."

Asked to comment on the crash of the indigenous Saras aircraft near Bangalore on March six, Major said an enquiry was on and only after its completion could it be ascertained what went wrong. "But you must understand that this is a development aircraft. Such things do happen."

On the situation prevailing in Pakistan, he said it would affect India if it worsened. "But we are at a level of preparedness which is very high and there is nothing to worry about."
 

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Centre for Airborne Systems' AEW & CS Detailed

CABS’ AEW & CS Detailed


In a path-breaking development, Brazil and India on July 3, 2008 inked a US$210 million agreement to jointly develop an airborne early warning and control system (AEW & CS) for the Indian Air Force (IAF). The agreement was signed by Dr S Christopher, Director, of the Indian Defence Research & Development’s (DRDO) Bangalore-based Centre for Airborne Systems (CABS), and Luis Carlos Aguiar, Embraer’s Executive Vice President (Defence and Govt Market), in the presence of Marco Brandao, Brazilian Ambassador to India, and M Natarajan, Scientific Adviser to India’s Defence Minister and Secretary, DRDO.

India, incidentally, had earlier acquired five EMB-135BT ‘Legacy’ executive jets, under a Rs7.27 billion contract with Embraer, to ferry VVIPs around the country and abroad. Under the latest deal, Embraer will modify its EMB-145 regional jet aircraft to carry the Active Array Antenna Unit (AAAU), developed by the CABS, on the aircraft’s fuselage. Three modified EMB-145s will be developed under this agreement, with the first being delivered by 2011. The various sub-systems of the AEW & CS’ mission management system will be integrated into the ‘modified green’ EMB-145 by CABS and the full-fledged AEW & CS will be flight-tested in India by CABS and the Indian Air Force (IAF) from 2012.

The AEW & CS’ S-band pulse-Doppler active phased-array radar will operate within the 2GHz to 4GHz bandwidth. The 8 metre-long, 900kg antenna (using 1,280 phase shifters) will be mounted on the upper dorsal spine of the aircraft’s fuselage. The radar’s dorsal unit (DU) will include the carbon-fibre radome, antenna array, RF distribution network, and 192 transmit/receive modules that will be cooled by ram-air. Each such module will comprise a power amplifier for the transmitted microwave signal, low-noise amplifiers as front-ends for the receiver channels, and phase shifters for accurate control of the signal phase in both transmit and receive modes. In the latter, amplification of the signal will be controlled as well. The phases and amplitudes will be continuously calibrated.

Each T/R module will be connected to one vertical slotted waveguide on each side. An electronic switch in the module will select the side. By feeding the slotted waveguide separately in the upper and lower half, the beam will be shifted in elevation for height measurement. This shifting will be conducted by single-step phase shifters in the front-ends of the modules. A module-control databus will provide control of the modules to achieve instantaneous antenna beam-steering and the very low sidelobes required. A receiver/exciter processor will generate the pulsed microwave signals and send them to the antenna. It will also accept the received signals from the DU and generate both digitised video signals for signals processing as well as data signals for steering the beam. The transmit drive signal will be generated by a frequency synthesizer and will be up-converted and modulated for pulse compression (using polyphase coding), and will be amplified before being sent to the DU.

A programmable signal-and-data processor will receive the returned radar signals from the receiver/exciter via optical data links in digitised quadrature video format. The radial velocity of detected airborne targets will be determined from the Doppler frequency via combined signals from the T/R modules. By combining these signals, the processor will modify the effective antenna sidelobe pattern to place nulls in the direction of hostile jammers. The processor will also perform coherent integration by Fast Fourier Transform that will form a Doppler filter bank. This will be followed by pulse compression, constant false alarm rate processing and binary integration. Due to all this, the AESA radar’s processor will generate clutter- and interference-free position data for all targets.

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The two identical antennae in the DU will comprise a row of vertical slotted waveguides each with two sections that will each contain five slots providing low vertical sidelobes. By shifting the signal phase from the upper and lower parts respectively, two tilted lobes will be provided for measuring target altitudes. By adjusting the gain, a proper sidelobe in azimuth will be obtained. The AESA radar will provide 270-degree airspace surveillance coverage and have an instrumental range of 450km and detection range of 350km in a dense hostile electronic warfare environment. The radar’s optimum performance (with very low sidelobes) will be over the 120° azimuthal sectors on each side of the aircraft. In addition, the radar will also have a secondary sea surveillance mode.

For the IAF, the radar will be configured for detection, tracking and height finding of airborne contacts, automatic track initiation and continuous tracking of up to 300 airborne targets, moving ground target detection and area ground mapping. In a severe EW environment the radar’s adaptive sidelobe cancelling feature will severely diminish the effects of hostile EW jamming. Pulse compression will be resorted to improve range resolution, while frequency agility will be used to avoid the negative effects resulting from hostile jamming. Doppler processing in both low- and medium-pulse repetition frequencies will be the main target detection mode amidst ground clutter, while horizontal antenna polarisation will provide an indication of the altitudes on which the tracked contracts are flying. High instantaneous bandwidth and Doppler resolution will enable the AESA radar to undertake target analysis via non-cooperation recognition techniques. For detecting hostile airborne aircraft, two mean antenna scan rates of 12 degrees/second or 3 degrees/second will be used, while a scan rate of 3 degrees/second will be used for detecting terrain-hugging or sea-skimming cruise missiles. Warships will be detected using a low-PRF without Doppler filtering. An adaptive radar control mode will control beam scheduling to share the total available time between search, confirmation of detections, and track updates. The radar will also include an L-band IFF transponder.

Inside the AEW & CS will be five tandem-mounted multifunction display/processor consoles that will make up the Central Tactical System (CTS) for providing tactical data management solutions via tactical aids, cues, alerts and bookkeeping functions. The platform will also have a communications suite comprising dual HF and five sets of V/UHF radios for enabling the exchange of tactical data with friendly land, sea and air forces as well as communicating with civilian ATC networks. A Link 16-type data link will provide automatic clear or secure communications channels via one of the HF radios and one dedicated UHF transceiver. The data link will be used for relaying information such as tracking cues, contact range, bearing, velocity, altitude and intercept vectors to friendly airborne combat aircraft, while the IAF’s ground-based Sector Operations Centres (SOC) will be networked with the AEW & C platform via the Ground Interface Segment (EGIS) that will provide two-way exchange of data between the airborne AEW & C platform and ground-based SOCs.

For self-protection, the AEW & CS will have on board a fully integrated defensive aids suite that will include multi-spectral optronic sensors and an ESM suite, designed for the protection of aircraft against infra-red/laser-guided MANPADS). This will in turn be fully integrated with wingtip-mounted lightweight chaff/flare countermeasures dispensing systems. Designed from the outset as a fully integrated modular system, the fully integrated defensive aids suite will combine radar/laser/infra-red/ultra-violet missile approach warning and countermeasures dispensing functions in a single systems controller. Another component will be the ESM suite that will combine the radar warning receiver and countermeasures dispensers with interferometer antenna arrays, a missile approach warning system, laser warning system, defensive aids controller, and a display-cum-control unit.—Prasun K. Sengupta


http://trishulgroup.blogspot.com/2008/10/cabs-aew-cs-detailed.html
 

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Sukhois to arrive at Tezpur by June-July: Air Marshal Bhan


Kolkata March 14: The Air Force Station in Assam's Tezpur would be ready by the middle of next month to house the much-awaited Sukhoi aircraft which were expected to arrive around June, chief of Eastern Air Command, Air Marshal S K Bhan said on Saturday.

"The base should be ready by the middle of next month. The Sukhois, in my opinion, would arrive by June-July," Bhan told newsmen here.

Deployment of the highly-integrated, twin-finned Sukhois for the first time in the Eastern sector would give India an air advantage over neighbouring China. The aircraft could fly upto 3,500 km without refuelling and upto 5,000 km with additional fuel.

Asked about the importance of the deployment of Sukhois at Tezpur given its proximity to China, he said, "it is very significant."

Spread over 20.55 acre, Air Force Station Tezpur had remained closed for the past one year for the upgradation work required to house the Sukhois.

Before the close-down, the station had three squadrons of MiGs, which were undertaking both operational and training roles.

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http://www.zeenews.com/nation/2009-03-14/514884news.html
 

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Look Everywhere

Given that the Indian armed forces have an overwhelming dependence on Russian defence equipment, the news that Russia has grounded its entire
fleet of MiG-29 aircraft due to structural defects — and subsequently found a large percentage unsafe to fly — is ominous.

The immediate implications for India are worrying. The IAF operates over 60 of the aircraft and is in the midst of procuring 45 more to fly off the much-delayed Admiral Gorshkov and indigenous Cochin-built carriers. And in a larger context, this is the latest in a series of developments over the past few years that suggest it is time for India to diversify its sources of defence equipment.

Russia’s defence manufacturing base is facing shortfalls in capabilities and capacities, leading to contract deadline overruns and increased costs, as seen repeatedly in the case of the Gorshkov.

Poor quality and a lack of spare parts only worsen the situation, as do its moribund R&D facilities which compel it to rely on technology dating back to the 1970s and 1980s. India’s ambitious plans to upgrade its military
technology and the changing profile of its requirements mean that it can no longer afford to persist with a strategy that depends on Russia as its primary supplier.

And given the recent boost in its defence budget, with various countries scrambling for a slice of the pie, it does not need to.In monetary terms, Israel is already India’s largest defence supplier. US and European companies are engaged in fierce bidding as well.

There are issues with regards to Indian demands for technology transfer, but with the US agreeing to look at these concerns, there is no reason why they should prove insurmountable.

Taken together with India’s massive contract for 126 multi-role fighter aircraft, the retirement of the MiG-23 and plans to phase out the MiG-21, these burgeoning ties suggest that the time has come to look at multiple sources for India’s defence supplies.

India could also move to liberalise the indigenous defence industry. Opening it further to private and foreign investment and forming consortia geared to implementing specific projects can provide a boost here,
bringing about much-needed structural improvements in the sorely lacking defence industry at home.

This is not to suggest that India should downgrade its Russian defence links entirely. That is neither feasible nor
necessary. Such ties can prove to be advantageous in certain instances, as in the case of the BrahMos missile or T-90 tanks.

But unreasoning adherence to a decades-old strategy is no longer viable. Perhaps the increased competition and growing defence relationship with other countries will help New Delhi to drive a good bargain with Russia as well.


http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/...MENT--Look-Everywhere/articleshow/4268618.cms
 

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IAF personnel to be on first manned space mission

NEW DELHI: When India's first manned space mission takes off, likely in 2017, it will have Indian Air Force (IAF) personnel on board.

The IAF is to train two of its personnel for the mission, in collaboration with the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), said a senior IAF official. The proposed manned space mission follows India's successful lunar probe launch last year.

The manned space mission will carry a two-member IAF crew - becoming the second Indians to go into space after Squadron Leader Rakesh Sharma, who was part of the joint space programme between India and Russia in 1984.

Though the ISRO wanted one of its scientists on the mission along with an IAF pilot, the air force proposed that both should be IAF personnel.

"The crew will consist of two members. We had a meeting with the ISRO scientists and they insisted on sending one scientist and one air force pilot, but we have proposed to depute one of our engineers also with them for training till the mission happens," a senior IAF official told IANS.

Under the ambitious $2.5 billion plan, India's space agency has proposed to put two people into space orbit at 274 km above the earth for seven days.

For the Human Space Flight project, the IAF is also gearing up its infrastructure for training the astronauts.

"We may have an IL-76 (Russian-built Illyushin-76 transport aircraft) modified to familiarise our crew with zero gravity situation. The mission will be unique as the spacecraft will also have an ejection capsule which would help the crew eject safely in time of emergency," the official added.

If the mission takes off, India will be the fourth country - after the US, Russia and China - to send a manned space mission. India is not the only Asian country in the new space race - Iran recently announced that it will attempt a manned space flight by 2021.

Dismissing the criticism of the huge costs involved in India's proposed manned mission, another senior IAF official listed its military advantages. He said the space mission will help India acquire ICBM (Inter-Continental Ballistic Missile) capability.

"To place a spacecraft in orbit we will require a bigger rocket booster. This large rocket booster will help India acquire the ICBM (Inter-Continental Ballistic Missile) capability," the senior official said requesting anonymity. He also said it would boost the country's reconnaisance capability. "To be in constant touch with the astronauts as they revolve around the earth, we will need to interlink our satellites, which in turn will boost our reconnaissance capability. Presently we are able to get 15 minutes' feed daily from our satellites. The space mission will give us 90 minutes' feed," the official added.

The decision to send astronauts into space follows the launch last October of India's first unmanned lunar mission, Chandrayaan-1, which signalled the country's entry into an elite club of nations that have reached the moon. Chandrayaan-1 is now orbiting the moon to compile a 3-D map of its surface among other things. India is planning to launch its second unmanned lunar mission - Chandrayaan-2 - in 2011.

India's decision to go for a manned mission into space comes in the wake of China making great strides in its space pursuits. China completed its first space walk last year, and also shot down one of its own satellites in 2007
 

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IAF detected ‘corrosion’ on some components of MIG29s

NEW DELHI, March 20 (APP): Indian Air Force has detected corrosion on some parts of its MIG‑29 fleet deployed on Pakistani border.

Media reports quoting Air Marshal Gautam Nayyar, Air Officer Commanding‑in‑Chief, Maintenance command in Chandigarh said “corrosion is seen” on some parts of the MIG 29 fighter aircraft which will be tested now. Russia has grounded some 100 MIG‑29s after detecting defects.

Nayyar said the IAF will conduct ultra sound examination of certain components of the MIG 29 at 11 Base Repair Depot (BRD) of the force.

Nayyar who was on his farewell visit to the 3 BRD in Chandigarh said the

IAF will acquire fully assembled 80 medium helicopters ‘MI 17 V5’ from Russia in June 2010.
 

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Air Marshal Naik to be new IAF chief

The Centre on Friday appointed Air Marshal Pradeep Vasant Naik as the next chief of the Indian Air Force (IAF). He will takeover will take over from Air Chief Marshal Fali Homi Major who retires on May 31, an IAF spokesperson said.

Naik, currently the vice-chief of the IAF, was commissioned into the Air Force in 1969 as a fighter pilot. With his appointment, the top job in the IAF went back to a fighter pilot after a gap of almost three years.

Major was a helicopter pilot and his selection for the chief’s job created a debate as barring one exception, the chief’s job traditionally goes to a fighter pilot.

The main argument against Major was that since he is a helicopter pilot, he may not be able to understand the needs and sensitivities of fighter pilots. But Major proved everybody wrong.

Green horn pilot

Besides many command and staff postings in the last four decades, Naik – as a green horn pilot – participated in the 1971 war also.

More recently, he was the architect behind last year’s successful Indian campaign behind the Red Flag exercise in the US Air Force base at Nellis, one of the world’s most sought after air exercises.

Before taking over as the vice-chief, Naik was the Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief of the Allahabad based Central Air Command.
 

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IAF to conduct tests on MIG 29 fleet

CHANDIGARH: The Indian Air Force will conduct tests on certain components of its MIG 29 fighter aircraft to ascertain their air worthiness, weeks after the Russian Air Force grounded its fleet of the war planes following detection of defects in them.

"The IAF will conduct ultra sound examination of certain components of the MIG 29 at 11 Base Repair Depot (BRD) of the force," Air Marshal Gautam Nayyar, Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief, Maintenance command, said.

Nayyar, who was on his farewell visit to the 3 BRD here, told reporters that "corrosion is seen" on some parts of the MIG 29 fighter aircraft.

He said that the IAF will get fully assembled 80 medium helicopters 'MI 17 V5' from Russia in June 2010.

The IAF is in the process of modernizing, renovating hangers and upgrading infrastructure so that the new technology of medium helicopter is adopted.

"The repair, maintenance and overhauling of the medium helicopter will be undertaken at 3 BRD of the IAF," Nayyar said.
 

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that is how we have to go ahead.....Indian arms industry is virtually unknown abroad......this is a small deal..but small deals like this will advertise our arms industries across the world.
 

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that is how we have to go ahead.....Indian arms industry is virtually unknown abroad......this is a small deal..but small deals like this will advertise our arms industries across the world.
We ought to actively target the African and Arab nations to sell our wares... I think that is where we have the largest scope... And possibly also in some locations in South America...
 

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http://www.financialexpress.com/news/hal-plans-to-develop-truboprop-plane/437592/

HAL plans to develop trubo-prop plane

New Delhi: As the Indian Air Force (IAF) prepares to phase out its basic trainer aircraft, state-owned Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) is planning to develop a turbo-prop plane to cater to the force's requirement for training its pilots.

"IAF is planning to phase out the HPT-32 'Deepak' aircraft by 2014. We are planning to develop a new turbo-prop for training IAF's entry-level pilots in the Air Force Academy (AFA)," HAL officials told PTI here.

The new aircraft, they said, would be equipped with latest training gadgets, head-up displays, ejection seats and retractable landing gears.

"It will have on-board computers and latest display equipment to helping the pilots to hone their flying-skills," officials said.

Unlike the HPT-32s, the new tandem-seat aircraft will have an air-conditioned cockpit allowing the cadet and trainer to have a "cool" flying experience, they said.

Powered by a single-engine, the aircraft will fly at a maximum speed of around 400 kms with a service-ceiling of 6000 metres.

HAL officials said that configuration and performance specification of the aircraft would be finalised after discussions with the IAF.
 

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HAL plans to develop trubo-prop plane

HAL plans to develop trubo-prop plane

New Delhi: As the Indian Air Force (IAF) prepares to phase out its basic trainer aircraft, state-owned Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) is planning to develop a turbo-prop plane to cater to the force's requirement for training its pilots.

"IAF is planning to phase out the HPT-32 'Deepak' aircraft by 2014. We are planning to develop a new turbo-prop for training IAF's entry-level pilots in the Air Force Academy (AFA)," HAL officials told PTI here.

The new aircraft, they said, would be equipped with latest training gadgets, head-up displays, ejection seats and retractable landing gears.

"It will have on-board computers and latest display equipment to helping the pilots to hone their flying-skills," officials said.

Unlike the HPT-32s, the new tandem-seat aircraft will have an air-conditioned cockpit allowing the cadet and trainer to have a "cool" flying experience, they said.

Powered by a single-engine, the aircraft will fly at a maximum speed of around 400 kms with a service-ceiling of 6000 metres.

HAL officials said that configuration and performance specification of the aircraft would be finalised after discussions with the IAF.
http://www.financialexpress.com/news/hal-plans-to-develop-truboprop-plane/437592/
 

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CAE and HAL finalise contracts and financing to establish C$60 million helicopter training centre in Bangalore, India

March 23, 2009

A joint venture of Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) and CAE has finalized all necessary contracts and non-recourse financing to begin construction and development of a new C$60 million (Rs 240 crore) helicopter training centre in Bangalore, India.

The Helicopter Academy to Train by Simulation of Flying (HATSOFF), the joint venture equally-owned by HAL and CAE, has secured long-term, non-recourse financing to support the development of the HATSOFF Helicopter Training Centre. HATSOFF will have a CAE-built full-mission simulator featuring CAE's revolutionary roll-on/roll-off cockpit design, which enables cockpits representing various helicopter types to be used in the simulator.

HATSOFF expects to begin training at a new purpose-built facility in the second half of 2010. When fully operational, HATSOFF will be able to train up to 400 helicopter pilots each year and expects to generate annual revenues of up to approximately C$20 million (Rs 80 crore).

"HATSOFF will serve a critical need for enhancing safety and mission readiness by offering high-quality simulation-based helicopter training programs to India and the surrounding region," said Marc Parent, CAE's Chief Operating Officer. "We are also pleased that financial institutions recognize the value of our business plan and the required training assets, which gives us the ability to raise non-recourse financing to support our expansion efforts in India."

Initially, HATSOFF will offer comprehensive training to civil and military customers operating four helicopter types: the Indian Army/Air Force variant of the HAL-built Dhruv, the civil variant of the Dhruv, the Bell 412 and the Eurocopter Dauphin.

The training centre will feature multimedia classrooms, computer-based training, brief/debrief facilities, and a training management information system. The CAE-built full-mission simulator for HATSOFF will feature a common motion system, vibration platform, and visual display system, and four separate cockpit modules that can be used in the full-mission simulator. When a cockpit is not used in the full-mission simulator, it will be used as a fixed-based flight training device (FTD). The simulator will be certified to Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and Joint Aviation Authority (JAA) Level D, the highest qualification for flight simulators.

"We are excited to be part of the first Level D simulator training facility to be built in India for helicopter pilots and maintainers," said Mr. Ashok K Baweja, Chairman, HAL. "HAL is committed to being India's premier aerospace organization, and part of that commitment includes enhancing safety and efficiency throughout the aerospace community. The HATSOFF Helicopter Training Centre will play a key role in Press Release training and producing skilled and mission-ready crews."
 

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India cancels attack helicopter tender-EADS exec

NEW DELHI, March 24 (Reuters) - India has cancelled a tender for 22 attack helicopters, an official from EADS said on Tuesday.

"We have been informed," Yves Guillaume, chief executive of EADS' India unit, told reporters. He said the company had been told of the cancellation last week but was not given any reason. A spokesman for Indian defence ministry could not immediately offer any comment.

Last year, India had sought bids for the combat helicopters from at least seven international firms and EADS' Eurocopter unit had offered its Tiger military choppers, Guillaume said.
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