Airbus Helicopters has planned to jointly make military helicopters with India's Mahindra & Mahindra, Reliance Industries and Tata Group to comply with rules aimed at helping the nascent local defence industry. The company is offering to build its light utility AS550 Fennec and the medium lift EC725 for India's armed forces, which are heavily dependent on an ageing fleet of Cheetah and Chetak helicopters
Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd (HAL) has signed a technology transfer agreement with Sagem (Safran) to manufacture and maintenance of Sagem's SIGMA 95 laser gyro navigation systems. According to the agreement, HAL will be able to produce SIGMA 95 units for the Indian air force, and also provide level 3 front line maintenance
RUAG Aerostructures and TAL Manufacturing Solutions Ltd has entered into partnership for manufacturing and supply of aero structural components and sub-assemblies. Under the $150 million contract, TAL will manufacture and supply over 550 sheet metal components, machined parts and sub-assemblies to RUAG, for Airbus A320 programme
Airbus announced today that it has signed an agreement with Dynamatic Technologies Ltd for procuring flap-track beams for A330 aircraft. The agreement is the largest manufacturing contract between Airbus and a private sector company in India and elevates Dynamatic to a global tier-1 supplier
Airbus has won a $220.5 million contract from the US army for procurement of more 41 UH-72A Lakota helicopters equipped with Airborne Radio Communications 231 radios
Tail sections of C-130 aircraft for Lockheed Martins global customers are being made in India, Phil Shaw, chief executive of Lockheed Martin India told defenseworld.net
Airbus and the Indian MoD are set to sign a contract to procure the multirole tanker transporter (MRTT) aircraft based on the A330 platform. Well informed officials told Defenseworld
South Korean Defense Acquisition Program Administration (DAPA) has delayed its $8 billion KF-X program, Korea Times reported Tuesday. “The KF-X program has been delayed as only one competitor has submitted a bid,” an unnamed official from DAPA was quoted as saying by the newspaper
Indian defense ministry is likely to decide on the sole Airbus-Tata joint bid to replace Indian Air Forces (IAF) fleet of 56 Avro aircraft fleet with C-295 military transport carrier in the coming week. Defense ministry sources said the next meetings of the defense acquisition council (DAC) would deliberate on the bid worth multi crore rupees
Airbus Helicopters has delivered 471 helicopters from the companys civil, parapublic and military product lines and booked 402 net orders last year. In addition, the backlog was adjusted to include a reduction of 33 NH90s