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Russia to begin deliveries of upgraded Mi-171 by year end
Moscow, Feb 02: Russia will commence deliveries of upgraded Mi-171 helicopters to India by the end of this year, under the USD 662 million deal signed by the two countries last December.
"We have already received the down payment and hope that the first helicopters will be delivered to India before the end of the year," Viktor Komardin, the deputy DG of arms exporter Rosoboronexport Corporation, said today.
The Mi-171 is an export version of the Mi-8 Hip transport helicopter featuring more powerful turbo-shaft engines and can transport up to 37 passengers.
The Indian Air Force had successfully used the older Mi-17 helicopter to drop a commando team to liberate the hostages during the siege of the Nariman House Jewish Centre in the terror attacks in Mumbai on Nov 26.
According to some reports India already has 150 Russian-made Mi-8 and Mi-17 medium-lift helicopters, which experts claim is the only transport chopper of its class capable of effective operation in high mountains.
In the past Russia has also supplied similar helicopters to Pakistani Army.
Moscow, Feb 02: Russia will commence deliveries of upgraded Mi-171 helicopters to India by the end of this year, under the USD 662 million deal signed by the two countries last December.
"We have already received the down payment and hope that the first helicopters will be delivered to India before the end of the year," Viktor Komardin, the deputy DG of arms exporter Rosoboronexport Corporation, said today.
The Mi-171 is an export version of the Mi-8 Hip transport helicopter featuring more powerful turbo-shaft engines and can transport up to 37 passengers.
The Indian Air Force had successfully used the older Mi-17 helicopter to drop a commando team to liberate the hostages during the siege of the Nariman House Jewish Centre in the terror attacks in Mumbai on Nov 26.
According to some reports India already has 150 Russian-made Mi-8 and Mi-17 medium-lift helicopters, which experts claim is the only transport chopper of its class capable of effective operation in high mountains.
In the past Russia has also supplied similar helicopters to Pakistani Army.
P-8I Reconnaissance Aircraft Deal: Boeing to Tie Up with L&T, BEL, Wipro, HCL and HAL
Dated 2/2/2009
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American plane maker Boeing Co. will buy aerospace structures and aviation electronics products worth at least $600 million, or Rs2,941 crore, from seven firms in India as part of the so-called offsets against winning a $2.1 billion contract early in January to supply eight P-8I reconnaissance planes to the Indian Navy.
According to two persons familiar with the development, the offset contracts are being placed with Larsen and Toubro Ltd (L&T), Bharat Electronics Ltd (BEL), Wipro Ltd, HCL Technologies Ltd , Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd (HAL), Dynamatic Technologies Ltd and Macmet Technologies Ltd, a unit of Canada's aerospace simulator maker CAE Inc. They did not share details about the contract division.
On 9 January, Boeing said the first of the P-8I, a variant of the P-8A Poseidon, the long-range marine patrol and anti-submarine warfare aircraft, will be delivered to the Indian Navy, its first non-US customer, by 2011. The remaining will be delivered by 2015. "Our team is working on the offset strategy and will be in touch with industry partners in a while," said Swati Rangachari, a spokeswoman for Boeing in India. "We will concentrate in the areas of avionics (aviation electronics) and aerostructures."
Wipro, HCL, L&T and HAL declined to comment.
Ravish Malhotra, chief operating officer at Dynamatics, confirmed that the firm had been chosen as a vendor. A BEL executive said the firm had entered into an agreement with Boeing on the offsets contracts, but a contract was yet to be signed. "The scope of work includes supply of communication equipment, radars, electronic warfare systems and contract manufacturing," said I. V. Sarma, director for research and development at BEL.
Boeing's is so far the largest offset commitment for an Indian defence deal since the government mandated foreign arms makers to source at least 30% of the value of the contract of more than Rs300 crore from local firms. On 1 December, Astra Microwave Products Ltd, a Hyderabad based-firm building microwave wireless technologies, said it won a Rs57 crore offset contract from Israel's ELTA Systems Ltd, against supply of microwave wireless sub systems for India's defence radar programme. L&T is the other firm to win part of the Rs243 crore deal from ELTA.
India's imports of military hardware and software could reach a cumulative $30 billion by 2012, according to a study by industry lobby Associated Chambers of Commerce and Industry of India or Assocham. In the same period, Assocham said, Indian companies are expected to get offset orders from global military equipment makers of nearly Rs49,000 crore, or $10 billion.
The biggest of such orders will come from local sourcing in a purchase of 126 fighter aircraft, estimated to cost Rs42,000 crore. "The focus (to source locally) for foreign vendors, at least in the short term, would be in avionics and software, in which India is strong, and also in structural components," said Ratan Shrivastava, director for aerospace and defence at the New Delhi offices of research firm Frost and Sullivan.
Dated 2/2/2009
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American plane maker Boeing Co. will buy aerospace structures and aviation electronics products worth at least $600 million, or Rs2,941 crore, from seven firms in India as part of the so-called offsets against winning a $2.1 billion contract early in January to supply eight P-8I reconnaissance planes to the Indian Navy.
According to two persons familiar with the development, the offset contracts are being placed with Larsen and Toubro Ltd (L&T), Bharat Electronics Ltd (BEL), Wipro Ltd, HCL Technologies Ltd , Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd (HAL), Dynamatic Technologies Ltd and Macmet Technologies Ltd, a unit of Canada's aerospace simulator maker CAE Inc. They did not share details about the contract division.
On 9 January, Boeing said the first of the P-8I, a variant of the P-8A Poseidon, the long-range marine patrol and anti-submarine warfare aircraft, will be delivered to the Indian Navy, its first non-US customer, by 2011. The remaining will be delivered by 2015. "Our team is working on the offset strategy and will be in touch with industry partners in a while," said Swati Rangachari, a spokeswoman for Boeing in India. "We will concentrate in the areas of avionics (aviation electronics) and aerostructures."
Wipro, HCL, L&T and HAL declined to comment.
Ravish Malhotra, chief operating officer at Dynamatics, confirmed that the firm had been chosen as a vendor. A BEL executive said the firm had entered into an agreement with Boeing on the offsets contracts, but a contract was yet to be signed. "The scope of work includes supply of communication equipment, radars, electronic warfare systems and contract manufacturing," said I. V. Sarma, director for research and development at BEL.
Boeing's is so far the largest offset commitment for an Indian defence deal since the government mandated foreign arms makers to source at least 30% of the value of the contract of more than Rs300 crore from local firms. On 1 December, Astra Microwave Products Ltd, a Hyderabad based-firm building microwave wireless technologies, said it won a Rs57 crore offset contract from Israel's ELTA Systems Ltd, against supply of microwave wireless sub systems for India's defence radar programme. L&T is the other firm to win part of the Rs243 crore deal from ELTA.
India's imports of military hardware and software could reach a cumulative $30 billion by 2012, according to a study by industry lobby Associated Chambers of Commerce and Industry of India or Assocham. In the same period, Assocham said, Indian companies are expected to get offset orders from global military equipment makers of nearly Rs49,000 crore, or $10 billion.
The biggest of such orders will come from local sourcing in a purchase of 126 fighter aircraft, estimated to cost Rs42,000 crore. "The focus (to source locally) for foreign vendors, at least in the short term, would be in avionics and software, in which India is strong, and also in structural components," said Ratan Shrivastava, director for aerospace and defence at the New Delhi offices of research firm Frost and Sullivan.
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Boeing to buy products worth $600 mn from seven Indian companies
Boeing said the first of the P-8I, a variant of the P-8A Poseidon, the long-range marine patrol and anti-submarine warfare aircraft, will be delivered to the Indian Navy by 2011
Bangalore: American plane makerBoeing Co. will buy aerospace structures and aviation electronics products worth at least $600 million, or Rs2,941 crore, from seven firms in India as part of the so-called offsets against winning a $2.1 billion contract early in January to supply eight P-8I reconnaissance planes to the Indian Navy.
According to two persons familiar with the development, the offset contracts are being placed with Larsen and Toubro Ltd (L&T), Bharat Electronics Ltd (BEL), Wipro Ltd, HCL Technologies Ltd , Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd (HAL), Dynamatic Technologies Ltd and Macmet Technologies Ltd, a unit of Canada’s aerospace simulator maker CAE Inc. They did not share details about the contract division.
On 9 January, Boeing said the first of the P-8I, a variant of the P-8A Poseidon, the long-range marine patrol and anti-submarine warfare aircraft, will be delivered to the Indian Navy, its first non-US customer, by 2011. The remaining will be delivered by 2015.
“Our team is working on the offset strategy and will be in touch with industry partners in a while,” said Swati Rangachari, a spokeswoman for Boeing in India. “We will concentrate in the areas of avionics (aviation electronics) and aerostructures.”
Wipro, HCL, L&T and HAL declined to comment.
Ravish Malhotra, chief operating officer at Dynamatics, confirmed that the firm had been chosen as a vendor.
A BEL executive said the firm had entered into an agreement with Boeing on the offsets contracts, but a contract was yet to be signed. “The scope of work includes supply of communication equipment, radars, electronic warfare systems and contract manufacturing,” said I. V. Sarma, director for research and development at BEL.
Boeing’s is so far the largest offset commitment for an Indian defence deal since the government mandated foreign arms makers to source at least 30% of the value of the contract of more than Rs300 crore from local firms.
On 1 December, Astra Microwave Products Ltd, a Hyderabad based-firm building microwave wireless technologies, said it won a Rs57 crore offset contract from Israel’s ELTA Systems Ltd, against supply of microwave wireless sub systems for India’s defence radar programme. L&T is the other firm to win part of the Rs243 crore deal from ELTA.
India’s imports of military hardware and software could reach a cumulative $30 billion by 2012, according to a study by industry lobby Associated Chambers of Commerce and Industry of India or Assocham. In the same period, Assocham said, Indian companies are expected to get offset orders from global military equipment makers of nearly Rs49,000 crore, or $10 billion.
The biggest of such orders will come from local sourcing in a purchase of 126 fighter aircraft, estimated to cost Rs42,000 crore. “The focus (to source locally) for foreign vendors, at least in the short term, would be in avionics and software, in which India is strong, and also in structural components,” said Ratan Shrivastava, director for aerospace and defence at the New Delhi offices of research firm Frost and Sullivan.
Boeing to buy products worth $600 mn from seven Indian companies
Boeing said the first of the P-8I, a variant of the P-8A Poseidon, the long-range marine patrol and anti-submarine warfare aircraft, will be delivered to the Indian Navy by 2011
Bangalore: American plane makerBoeing Co. will buy aerospace structures and aviation electronics products worth at least $600 million, or Rs2,941 crore, from seven firms in India as part of the so-called offsets against winning a $2.1 billion contract early in January to supply eight P-8I reconnaissance planes to the Indian Navy.
According to two persons familiar with the development, the offset contracts are being placed with Larsen and Toubro Ltd (L&T), Bharat Electronics Ltd (BEL), Wipro Ltd, HCL Technologies Ltd , Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd (HAL), Dynamatic Technologies Ltd and Macmet Technologies Ltd, a unit of Canada’s aerospace simulator maker CAE Inc. They did not share details about the contract division.
On 9 January, Boeing said the first of the P-8I, a variant of the P-8A Poseidon, the long-range marine patrol and anti-submarine warfare aircraft, will be delivered to the Indian Navy, its first non-US customer, by 2011. The remaining will be delivered by 2015.
“Our team is working on the offset strategy and will be in touch with industry partners in a while,” said Swati Rangachari, a spokeswoman for Boeing in India. “We will concentrate in the areas of avionics (aviation electronics) and aerostructures.”
Wipro, HCL, L&T and HAL declined to comment.
Ravish Malhotra, chief operating officer at Dynamatics, confirmed that the firm had been chosen as a vendor.
A BEL executive said the firm had entered into an agreement with Boeing on the offsets contracts, but a contract was yet to be signed. “The scope of work includes supply of communication equipment, radars, electronic warfare systems and contract manufacturing,” said I. V. Sarma, director for research and development at BEL.
Boeing’s is so far the largest offset commitment for an Indian defence deal since the government mandated foreign arms makers to source at least 30% of the value of the contract of more than Rs300 crore from local firms.
On 1 December, Astra Microwave Products Ltd, a Hyderabad based-firm building microwave wireless technologies, said it won a Rs57 crore offset contract from Israel’s ELTA Systems Ltd, against supply of microwave wireless sub systems for India’s defence radar programme. L&T is the other firm to win part of the Rs243 crore deal from ELTA.
India’s imports of military hardware and software could reach a cumulative $30 billion by 2012, according to a study by industry lobby Associated Chambers of Commerce and Industry of India or Assocham. In the same period, Assocham said, Indian companies are expected to get offset orders from global military equipment makers of nearly Rs49,000 crore, or $10 billion.
The biggest of such orders will come from local sourcing in a purchase of 126 fighter aircraft, estimated to cost Rs42,000 crore. “The focus (to source locally) for foreign vendors, at least in the short term, would be in avionics and software, in which India is strong, and also in structural components,” said Ratan Shrivastava, director for aerospace and defence at the New Delhi offices of research firm Frost and Sullivan.
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The order for 80 Mi-17V-5 military transport helicopters intended for India will be placed at OAO Kazan' Helicopter Plant. As the official Tatarstan Republic server reports, the enterprise's deputy general marketing, sales ands service director, Vitaliy Vasyutkin, made the announcement.
A decision that the helicopters for India will be assembled in Kazan' was adopted initially, the top manager emphasized. In his opinion, such a choice is explained by the fact that "there have not been and are no other type of rotary-winged aircraft manufactured in this country except Kazan's. "They make a fine showing of themselves. The contract will be fulfilled in 2010 - 2013. Indian specialists will arrive in Kazan' to accept the helicopters," Vasyutkin specified.
As the plant's marketing director emphasized, "along with the Indian contract there are order of different federal structures being fulfilled and to be fulfilled." "So it is not surprising that the Kazan' Helicopter Plant has not stopped hiring qualified workers," Vasyutkin specified.
It is recalled that it became known in December 2008 that Russia and India entered into a contract for the delivery of 80 Mi-17V-5 military transport helicopters. The contract was signed as a result of the discussions of Russia's president Dmitriy Medvedev and India's prime minister Manmohan Singh.
An agreement in principle on the purchase by the Indian air force of the Mi-17 helicopters was reached in March 2007 at a meeting of the Russo-Indian intergovernmental commission on military and technical cooperation.
The Mi-17V-5 assault transport is a modification of the Mi-8MT helicopter developed taking into account combat experience. In particular, drop time, which is especially important in combat conditions, has been minimized. Thus, 36 men can get out of the helicopter in only 15 seconds. Moreover, the Mi-17V-5 is equipped with a non-parachute assault system ((SISTEMA BESPARASHYUTNOGO DESANTIROVANIYA)) that allows lowering ((SPUSK)) four men simultaneously.
The order for 80 Mi-17V-5 military transport helicopters intended for India will be placed at OAO Kazan' Helicopter Plant. As the official Tatarstan Republic server reports, the enterprise's deputy general marketing, sales ands service director, Vitaliy Vasyutkin, made the announcement.
A decision that the helicopters for India will be assembled in Kazan' was adopted initially, the top manager emphasized. In his opinion, such a choice is explained by the fact that "there have not been and are no other type of rotary-winged aircraft manufactured in this country except Kazan's. "They make a fine showing of themselves. The contract will be fulfilled in 2010 - 2013. Indian specialists will arrive in Kazan' to accept the helicopters," Vasyutkin specified.
As the plant's marketing director emphasized, "along with the Indian contract there are order of different federal structures being fulfilled and to be fulfilled." "So it is not surprising that the Kazan' Helicopter Plant has not stopped hiring qualified workers," Vasyutkin specified.
It is recalled that it became known in December 2008 that Russia and India entered into a contract for the delivery of 80 Mi-17V-5 military transport helicopters. The contract was signed as a result of the discussions of Russia's president Dmitriy Medvedev and India's prime minister Manmohan Singh.
An agreement in principle on the purchase by the Indian air force of the Mi-17 helicopters was reached in March 2007 at a meeting of the Russo-Indian intergovernmental commission on military and technical cooperation.
The Mi-17V-5 assault transport is a modification of the Mi-8MT helicopter developed taking into account combat experience. In particular, drop time, which is especially important in combat conditions, has been minimized. Thus, 36 men can get out of the helicopter in only 15 seconds. Moreover, the Mi-17V-5 is equipped with a non-parachute assault system ((SISTEMA BESPARASHYUTNOGO DESANTIROVANIYA)) that allows lowering ((SPUSK)) four men simultaneously.
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Amazing pics, i saw some of NSG commando a few weeks ago just behind my house in Delhi. In the woods ( ridge area ). Man they actually look so attantive and kind of spooky, but i had a talk with them and these buggers were funniest bloke down town. and yeh friendly too. salute em'
Amazing pics, i saw some of NSG commando a few weeks ago just behind my house in Delhi. In the woods ( ridge area ). Man they actually look so attantive and kind of spooky, but i had a talk with them and these buggers were funniest bloke down town. and yeh friendly too. salute em'
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is this pic of lca
looks like LCA ,there is a indian flag on it sir . but never seen from this angel . although nice pic tyagi sir .
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Forces launch combat drill off Gujarat-India-The Times of India
Forces launch combat drill off Gujarat
6 Feb 2009, 0318 hrs IST, Rajat Pandit , TNN
NEW DELHI: The armed forces are now aggressively sharpening their combat skills to take the battle right till enemy shores. Soon after the huge tri-Service amphibious warfare exercise codenamed `Triveni', the forces have launched yet another major combat drill dubbed `Tropex' on the west coast.
Army, Navy and IAF are working closely together to finetune their new joint amphibious warfare doctrine in the Tropex wargames, in a major thrust towards practising blitzkrieg assaults on enemy territory from the sea.
The armed forces, in fact, are rapidly moving towards brandishing a potent `marine expeditionary force', on the lines of US, which can undertake `operational manoeuvres from the sea', said sources.
The endeavour's seriousness can be gauged from the fact that the Tropex off the Gujarat coast comes close after the Triveni exercise was held around the Lakshadweep Islands in December-January.
As was first reported by TOI, India had gone ahead with Triveni, with warships from the eastern fleet joining the western fleet in the Arabian Sea, as a show of force despite heightened tensions with Pakistan after 26/11.
Pakistan, of course, remains apprehensive of its Karachi coast being attacked after the bombing and blockade of the city by India during the 1971 war.
As for Tropex, the `final beach assault' is planned at Madhavpur in Gujarat on February 9, when the 16,900-tonne amphibious transport warship INS Jalashwa and other warships will `disgorge a brigade group' of around 3,000 soldiers on the `enemy' beach in `one single wave', said sources.
In full battle gear with their armoured personnel carriers, the soldiers will use the four landing craft on board INS Jalashwa as well as helicopters, while IAF's maritime strike Jaguars will provide `air cover' during the manoeuvres.
Navy's strategic `sealift capability' has got a big boost with the induction of the second-hand INS Jalashwa, known as USS Trenton earlier, and its six UH-3H Sea King troop-carrying helicopters for a total of $88 million from US in 2007.
The second largest Indian warship after 28,000-tonne aircraft carrier INS Viraat, INS Jalashwa can transport four landing craft, six helicopters and a battalion of 900-1,000 fully-armed soldiers or a squadron of tanks over long distances.
After INS Jalashwa's induction, the armed forces have swung into frenzied activity to boost their amphibious warfare capability in `a synergistic manner', with a flurry of exercises to `test and validate' the new `joint doctrine for amphibious operations'.
The Army, on its part, has three specifically-earmarked `amphibious brigades', with almost 10,000 soldiers, one based in South India, another in West India and the third in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands.
"Inherently mobile and flexible, amphibious operations are probably the most complex of all military manoeuvres. They require all types of warships, aircraft, weapons, landing and special forces acting in a well-oiled concerted manner to establish beachheads,'' said a senior officer.
Forces launch combat drill off Gujarat
6 Feb 2009, 0318 hrs IST, Rajat Pandit , TNN
NEW DELHI: The armed forces are now aggressively sharpening their combat skills to take the battle right till enemy shores. Soon after the huge tri-Service amphibious warfare exercise codenamed `Triveni', the forces have launched yet another major combat drill dubbed `Tropex' on the west coast.
Army, Navy and IAF are working closely together to finetune their new joint amphibious warfare doctrine in the Tropex wargames, in a major thrust towards practising blitzkrieg assaults on enemy territory from the sea.
The armed forces, in fact, are rapidly moving towards brandishing a potent `marine expeditionary force', on the lines of US, which can undertake `operational manoeuvres from the sea', said sources.
The endeavour's seriousness can be gauged from the fact that the Tropex off the Gujarat coast comes close after the Triveni exercise was held around the Lakshadweep Islands in December-January.
As was first reported by TOI, India had gone ahead with Triveni, with warships from the eastern fleet joining the western fleet in the Arabian Sea, as a show of force despite heightened tensions with Pakistan after 26/11.
Pakistan, of course, remains apprehensive of its Karachi coast being attacked after the bombing and blockade of the city by India during the 1971 war.
As for Tropex, the `final beach assault' is planned at Madhavpur in Gujarat on February 9, when the 16,900-tonne amphibious transport warship INS Jalashwa and other warships will `disgorge a brigade group' of around 3,000 soldiers on the `enemy' beach in `one single wave', said sources.
In full battle gear with their armoured personnel carriers, the soldiers will use the four landing craft on board INS Jalashwa as well as helicopters, while IAF's maritime strike Jaguars will provide `air cover' during the manoeuvres.
Navy's strategic `sealift capability' has got a big boost with the induction of the second-hand INS Jalashwa, known as USS Trenton earlier, and its six UH-3H Sea King troop-carrying helicopters for a total of $88 million from US in 2007.
The second largest Indian warship after 28,000-tonne aircraft carrier INS Viraat, INS Jalashwa can transport four landing craft, six helicopters and a battalion of 900-1,000 fully-armed soldiers or a squadron of tanks over long distances.
After INS Jalashwa's induction, the armed forces have swung into frenzied activity to boost their amphibious warfare capability in `a synergistic manner', with a flurry of exercises to `test and validate' the new `joint doctrine for amphibious operations'.
The Army, on its part, has three specifically-earmarked `amphibious brigades', with almost 10,000 soldiers, one based in South India, another in West India and the third in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands.
"Inherently mobile and flexible, amphibious operations are probably the most complex of all military manoeuvres. They require all types of warships, aircraft, weapons, landing and special forces acting in a well-oiled concerted manner to establish beachheads,'' said a senior officer.
