Indian Air Force: News & Discussions

[rishivashista13]

we should make a separate new team of scientists which will work / reaserch for fifth gen technology with gripen . So that it will be beneficial for us as well as them .
Considering that , it should not affect LCA program .

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[Blackwater]

Sweden/Saab is offering some lucrative bribes to the IAF and the media. Hopefully Parrikar will stop it sooner or later.

grippen is anytime better option then LCA.

 

[rishivashista13]

grippen is anytime better option then LCA.

but we dont required it , it is not what we want , we want a true MMRCA . And gripen is not .

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[Blackwater]

but we dont required it , it is not what we want , we want a true MMRCA . And gripen is not .

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atleast grippen fly unlike LCA

 

[rishivashista13]

atleast grippen fly unlike LCA

Oh ! Come on , Stop crying like kids

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[Blackwater]

Oh ! Come on , Stop crying like kids

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you cant ignore the fact. the new grippen has better radar engine weapons load capacity than LCA mark 2

Saab is ready for TOT. and make in india

come out of false izzat and pride and accept the fact that arjun and LCA is waste

 

[rishivashista13]

For how much time can we relay on other countries ? And what if one day they stop helping ?? Projects like Tajes , Arjun , etc are our future .
Why SAAB , America are trying to give these things gripen , F 16 to India and interfering in our programs ?
They want to stop India , they are watching that how fast the defence sector of India is growing , and they dont like it .
For present we cant close gates of our future .


By the way Arjun mk 2 is one of the beast tank of the world .


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[rishivashista13]

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[cobra commando]

India's First Women Fighter Pilots Get Wings

 

[Abhi9]

Good to see this thread being used finally. Every other news does not have to come become a separate thread
IS F-15 bettter
rafales move forward
Gripen this gripen that, rafale this rafale that.We have one Rafale thread from the very start. Tired of seing this trend

 

[cobra commando]

India acquires Litening targeting pod

Rafael will supply 164 examples of its Litening targeting pod to the Indian air force, for use on four types of combat aircraft including New Delhi’s Sukhoi Su-30 fighters. Guy Oren, director of Rafael's electro-optical systems unit, says the pods will be delivered in the next couple of years. An advanced version of the Litening 4 – the Litening 4 I – will be supplied. The improved system has been equipped with upgraded infrared cameras and a charge- coupled device colour camera to help identify targets on the ground, particularly dense areas, Rafael says. The company adds that the new version doubles up as a surveillance and reconnaissance system in addition to being a targeting pod. In February it was announced that the planned Litening acquisition would fall under a larger $500 million deal between India and Israel, which would also see the Rafael Spice 250 precision-guided bomb provided to New Delhi. India acquires Litening targeting pod

 

[Prashant12]

UPES to develop payload prototype for 'C-130 J Super Hercules Military Aircraft

New Delhi, June 30 (ANI): University of Petroleum and Energy Studies (UPES) is developing a payload prototype for military aircraft C-130 J Super Hercules with the help of a research grant of 40,000 US Dollars from Lockheed Martin.

The Payload will be used towards improved Humanitarian Aid Support, Disaster Relief Operations, Medical Evacuation and Environmental / Weather missions.

The payload being developed by UPES will help in ensuring prompt response during extreme situations and saving initial response time which is usually spent in setting up working head-quarters from where relief teams can operate in case of a disaster occurrence.

"We are extremely proud of this achievement by our students, supported by our faculty members. This is a fitting testimony of the technical competencies developed by the students during the course of their studies, our focus on research and development and industry-academia interface," said CEO and President UPES, Utpal Ghosh.

Currently, in relief operations during disaster situations facilities like water purification system, sanitation facilities, electricity and powerhouse etc. are set up separately, which eats up significant amount of crucial 'golden hours' i.e first 72 hours after a disaster occurrence.

The payload being developed by UPES team will help in saving considerable set-up time when every second counts.

"In disaster situations and during relief operations a lot of initial response time is spent in setting up working head-quarters from where relief teams can operate. Our winning payload structure and its internal architecture has been developed to reduce initial response time as much as possible, technologically," said Dean College of Engineering Studies (CoES) at UPES, Dr. Kamal Bansal.

"We aim to finish this project by next year and look forward to developing ideal head-quarters for large scale relief operations," adds Bansal.

The team developing the prototype is backed by Technology giants Lockheed Martin, Tata Advanced Systems, DRDO, IAF officials and NDRF. This is also being developed keeping in mind the in-depth understanding of ground-zero realities to make it suitable for scenarios like air drop and long storage period.

Additionally, UPES students have been part of Indian and global missions and competitions in the past.

Smiti Maini, a student of 2006-2010 aerospace engineering batch at UPES, was part of mission control team for the launch of India's Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM) in November 2013 and Mars Orbit Insertion in September 2014.

She worked on spacecraft control systems design, analysis and simulation, and also designed the thruster failure detection, isolation and reconfiguration (TFDIR) for autonomous functioning of the spacecraft. (ANI).

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/...es-Military-Aircraft/articleshow/52991170.cms

 

[cobra commando]

Boeing, Mahindra Defence Systems Open C-17 Training Center for Indian Air Force

 

[kamaal]

you cant ignore the fact. the new grippen has better radar engine weapons load capacity than LCA mark 2

Saab is ready for TOT. and make in india

come out of false izzat and pride and accept the fact that arjun and LCA is waste

I still don't think that Gripen is the best available option for IAF. SAAB is just too desperate to offer these birds, but I think best choice available for IAF is F-18 super hornet with AESA, with offer price of 55-60 million $ per plane. But still think IAF buys EF Typhoon,EFT was my favorite choice over Rafale , but it would be very expensive bird for IAF's inventory.

Plus LCA MK2 and Gripen should not be linked, LCA MK2 is as ambitious as MK1, MK1's success will prove India's ability to design, manufacture and produce a 4.5 gen jet and MK2's success will define the ability to complement the efforts put in MK1 and ability to design a competitive fighter which can fight in the enemy territory.

 

[Blackwater]

I still don't think that Gripen is the best available option for IAF. SAAB is just too desperate to offer these birds, but I think best choice available for IAF is F-18 super hornet with AESA, with offer price of 55-60 million $ per plane. But still think IAF buys EF Typhoon,EFT was my favorite choice over Rafale , but it would be very expensive bird for IAF's inventory.

Plus LCA MK2 and Gripen should not be linked, LCA MK2 is as ambitious as MK1, MK1's success will prove India's ability to design, manufacture and produce a 4.5 gen jet and MK2's success will define the ability to complement the efforts put in MK1 and ability to design a competitive fighter which can fight in the enemy territory.

pakistan ke waaaste F-18 hi le lo , kuch to lo

 

[Indx TechStyle]

India to Build Airfield in Parma Valley - Sputnik News

 

[alphacentury]

So, an AN-32 on its way to Port blair has gone missing since morning. Any thread/discussion going on here?

 

[Rizvi Khan]

So, an AN-32 on its way to Port blair has gone missing since morning. Any thread/discussion going on here?

I know did not find any thing on the thread but our plane is missing in the IOR

 

[Indx TechStyle]

For how much time can we relay on other countries ? And what if one day they stop helping ?? Projects like Tajes , Arjun , etc are our future .
Why SAAB , America are trying to give these things gripen , F 16 to India and interfering in our programs ?
They want to stop India , they are watching that how fast the defence sector of India is growing , and they dont like it .
For present we cant close gates of our future .


By the way Arjun mk 2 is one of the beast tank of the world .


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[Indx TechStyle]

Make in India for Air Force

Make in India for Air Force​

A seminar on Make in India for Indian Air Force was conducted on 19th April, 2016. Main suggestions received during the seminar are as follows:

Nurture aerospace Research & Development (R&D) in India through full funding and encouraging incentives to private Indian industry. Establishment of an aerospace R&D centre to identify, design and develop equipment required for maintenance and sustenance of combat platforms.

Programmes may be conducted through leading academic institutions or in Public Private Partnership (PPP) mode for knowledge and skill development in the identified areas of R&D, Manufacture, Quality Assurance, Maintenance etc. in military aviation.

Periodic interaction with Indian industry.

The major projects planned to be processed under Make in India for Air Force are: Light Combat Aircraft, Light Combat Helicopter, Light Utility Helicopter, Basic Trainer Aircraft, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles, Medium and Short Range Surface-to-Air Missiles, Air-to-Air Missiles, Radars, other Avionics, aggregates and ammunition etc.

The Government has implemented several policy initiatives to promote Make in India, such as liberalisation of FDI policy & Industrial Licensing Policy, simplification of export procedures, creating level playing field for Indian private and public sector companies, giving preference to Buy (Indian- Indigenously Designed, Developed and Manufactured), Buy (Indian), Buy and Make (Indian) categories of capital acquisition over Buy (Global) category in Defence Procurement Procedure.

The various initiatives taken to promote Make In India for manufacture of defence equipment are given below:

Make Procedure: The salient features of Make procedure in the Defence Procurement Procedure-2016 (DPP-2016) are as follows:

There shall be two categories of Make projects first, those funded by the MoD, and the second, that are self-funded by the developers.

Funding of the projects by the MoD has been increased from 80% to 90%.

In case the RFP for the product is not issued within two years of successful development of the prototype, the balance 10% shall also be re-imbursed. In case of second category of projects, the entire cost of development shall be re-imbursed.

The development agencies will also be able to get a mobilisation advance of 20% of the estimated cost of development.

Projects with an estimated cost of development of upto Rs.10 crore, under MoD funded projects, and upto Rs.3 crore, under self-funded projects, will be earmarked for MSMEs.

Buy (Indian-IDDM): Another notable feature of DPP-2016 is the introduction of a new procurement category Buy [Indian-Indigenously Designed, Developed and Manufactured-(IDDM)]. This category refers to procurement from Indian vendors of products that are indigenously designed, developed and manufactured, and have atleast 40% indigenous content. If the product is not designed and developed indigenously, it will have to have 60% indigenous content. The Buy (Indian) category, in which the product is to be procured from Indian vendors, will now require to have an indigenous content of 40%, instead of the 30% present requirement.

There shall be preference to Buy (Indian-IDDM), Buy (Indian). Buy and Make (Indian)categories of capital acquisition over Buy and Make or Buy (Global)category in Defence Procurement Procedure.

Industrial Licensing: The Defence Products List for the purpose of issuing Industrial Licenses (ILs) under Industries (Development & Regulation) (IDR) Act, 1951 has been revised and most of the components, parts, sub-systems, testing equipment and production equipment have been removed from the List, so as to reduce the entry barriers for the industry, particularly small & medium segment. The initial validity of the Industrial Licence granted under the IDR Act has been increased from 03 years to 15 years with a provision to further extend it by 03 years on a case-to-case basis.

Defence Exports: The list of military stores has been finalized and put in the public domain so as to make the process transparent and unambiguous. The process of receiving applications for No Objection Certificate (NOC) for export of military stores and for issuing NOC has been made online to reduce the delay and to remove human interface in the process. The Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) for the issue of NOC for export of military stores has been revised. Under the revised SOP, the requirement of End User Certificate (EUC) to be countersigned/stamped by the Government authorities has been done away with for the export of parts, components, sub-systems etc. Recognizing the need for promotion of defence exports to make the Indian defence industry economically sustainable, Defence Exports Strategy outlining the various steps to be taken, has been formulated and put up in public domain.

Defence Offsets: Offset implementation process has been made flexible by allowing change of Indian Offset Partners (IOPs) and offset components, even in signed contracts. Foreign Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs) are now not required to indicate the details of IOPs and products at the time of signing of contracts. Services as an avenue of offset have been re-instated with certain conditionalities.

Foreign Direct Investment (FDI):Under the Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) Policy, foreign investment upto 49% through automatic route and beyond 49% through Government route has been allowed in defence sector wherever it is likely to result in access to modern technology or for other reasons to be recorded. The foreign investment in defence sector is further subject to Industrial license under the Industries (Development & Regulation) Act, 1951; and Manufacturing of small arms and ammunition under the Arms Act, 1959.

Level-Playing Field: Issues related to level playing field between Indian vs. foreign manufacturers and public sector vs private sector have also been addressed. These include the following:-

Exchange Rate Variation protection has been made applicable for Indian private sector at par with Public Sector Undertakings for all categories of capital acquisitions.

The preferential treatment given to Defence Public Sector Undertakings in excise duty/custom duty has been discontinued. As per the revised policy, all Indian industries (public and private) are subject to the same kind of excise and custom duty levies.

Outsourcing and Vendor Development Guidelines: To promote the participation of private sector, particularly SMEs for defence manufacturing, Outsourcing and Vendor Development Guidelines for DPSUs and OFB have been formulated. The guidelines mandate each DPSU and OFB to have a short-term and long-term outsourcing and vendor development plan to gradually increase the outsourcing from private sector.

Make in India Portal: Make in India portal for Defence Production has been launched. The portal provides information related to all policy and procedural issues relevant for defence manufacturing industry. It provides link to industrial promotion polices and program of various states and UTs. Another highlight of the portal is that the Test facilities of DPSUs/OFB/DGQA/DGAQA/DRDO/ Forces which can be utilized by the private sector, have been displayed. The portal also gives an opportunity to an individual company to seek clarifications or ask questions related to Defence Production.

This information was given by Defence Minister Shri Manohar Parrikar in a written reply to Shri Amar Shankar Sable in Rajya Sabha today.

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