HAL to invest Rs 600 cr in new fighter plane unit

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HAL to invest Rs 600 cr in new fighter plane unit

Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd will invest Rs 600 crore in its new fighter plane facility in Bangalore.

The company signed an MoU with the State Government on Thursday during the Global Investors' Meet. The facility will come up on 40 acres of HAL land at Challaghatta, next to the old airport, the defence enterprise said.

The unit will licence-produce the fourth-generation fighters – the MMRCA or medium multi-role combat aircraft – for the Air Force. The Government is negotiating with the French aviation major Dassault for the purchase of the MMRCA .

HAL is creating two new divisions, one for aircraft assembly and testing and the other for engine assembly and testing.

Chairman, Mr R.K.Tyagi, said, “The new unit requires access to the runway. It is a time-bound programme to establish the infrastructure, production facilities and supply of the aircraft.”

The new facility is expected to potentially employ 1,200 people directly and another 3,600 by way of related services and outsourcing.

 

[DrSomnath999]

well let's hope HAL can replicate france's industrial base in building the great legendary "LA RAFALE"

& can deliver rafale in time

 

[T90TankGuy]

i think this will be the third major facility of HAL to produce fighters.

 

[farhan_9909]

just 40 acres?

isnt it way too much small

i mean the another unit of PAC in nawabshah is said to be over 500 acre

 

[AbhijitSingh]

just 40 acres?

isnt it way too much small

i mean the another unit of PAC in nawabshah is said to be over 500 acre

That facility includes the airfield.. Here there is an airfield already existing..

 

[farhan_9909]

That facility includes the airfield.. Here there is an airfield already existing..

in the same vary thread
a persn reported that the airfield is operational

and that land was recently acquired that time

 

[Adnan Faruqi]

just 40 acres?

isnt it way too much small

i mean the another unit of PAC in nawabshah is said to be over 500 acre

in the same vary thread
a persn reported that the airfield is operational

and that land was recently acquired that time

Yaar talk with some sense.

HAL is the aircraft manufacturer who have manufactured the largest numbers of aircraft and engines in South Asia and ur teaching HAL how much area it required to have a manufacturing plant.

 

[India defense]

Bangalore has 3 airfield and 2 of them for airforce