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Nearly Rs 1500 crore spent on preliminary design of Fifth Generation Fighter Aircraft project: Government
Published August 4, 2015 | By admin
SOURCE : PTI

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The government has incurred an expenditure of nearly Rs 1,500 crore in the preliminary design stage of the Fifth Generation Fighter Aircraft project, but is yet to sign the contract for research and development with Russia.

In a written reply to Rajya Sabha, Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar said the preliminary design stage of the FGFA programme has been completed in June 2013 based on contract signed in December 2010 with the Russian side.

As per the Inter Governmental Agreement, Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) is the designated implementation organisation from Indian side. In turn, HAL is supported by DRDO, Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) and other Indian agencies.

“The expenditure incurred so far on preliminary design stage of FGFA programme is Rs 1,483.15 crore,” Parrikar said.

The next stage of development of FGFA will commence upon signing of the Research and Development contract.

As per the draft R&D contract, the delivery of FGFA to Indian Air Force has been envisaged to commence 94 months from the start of R&D contract.

“The contract has not been signed yet,” Parrikar said.

According to defence sources, final R&D contract, which was to be signed by 2012, is still to be finalised. The contract would pave the way for prototype development and flight testing.

Though India is investing 50 per cent of the cost of the multi-billion dollar programme, its work share in the research and development and other aspects of the programme has come down to only around 13 per cent, something which Indian officials were not happy about.

They say this will impact India’s indigenous capabilities to develop such an advanced fighter aircraft. However, sources say this roadblock has been removed.

The sources also said that there are issues related to other aspects of the plane too.

The FGFA project is based on the Russian Air Force’s Sukhoi T-50 PAK-FA platform. The Indian version will be tweaked to add some more advanced features. The total programme is expected to cost India about $25-30 billion.
 
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Ministry of Defence
04-August, 2015 17:15 IST
Primary Design Programme for Construction of Fifth Generation Fighter Jets

The preliminary design stage of the Fifth Generation Fighter Aircraft (FGFA) programme has been completed in June 2013 based on a contract signed in December 2010 with the Russian side. As per the Inter-Governmental Agreement (IGA) signed in October 2007, Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) is the designated implementation organization from the Indian side. In turn, HAL is supported by Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO), Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) and other Indian Agencies.The expenditure incurred so far on Preliminary Design stage of FGFA programme is Rs.1483.15 crore.

The next stage of development of FGFA would commence upon signing of the Research & Development (R&D) contract. As per the draft R&D contract, the delivery of FGFA to Indian Air Force (IAF) has been envisaged to commence after 94 months from the start of the R&D contract. The contract has not been signed so far.

This information was given by Defence Minister Shri Manohar Parrikar in a written reply to Shri KC Tyagi in Rajya Sabha today.

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Light Combat Aircraft (LCA) Tejas Mk-II would be an improved version of LCA Mk-I. Some of the new systems / technologies, like Active Electrically Scanned Array (AESA) Radar, Unified Electronic Warfare (EW) Suite, On Board Oxygen Generation System (OBOGS), Upgraded Avionics, etc. are to be included in LCA Tejas Mk-II to make the aircraft more contemporary. Technologies, systems engineering and experience gained during development of LCA Tejas Mk-II would benefit the development of Fifth Generation Aircraft indigenously.
 
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May be ! This is deal expected to be signed by this year . And many issues including development of new variants is been discussed. Russia want India to accept modifications on PAKFA than cresting new fighter from the scratch . So the time line is reduced considerably.

This has to be sorted out by heads of both countries ..So I guess there is much more to expect from PM Russia visit . I agree with the Russians .
 
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