New Delhi: With us older General Electric (GE) Now finally delivering the first of the 99 contracted engines for the Mark-1A tile combatants after a delay of about two years, Hindust Aeronautics (HAL) is expected to enter the production of the delayed indigenous plane.
Hal, of course, will also have to solve other development problems, such as the pending test of the Missile Air-Aire-Aire Missile Test of a single engine and the integration of a couple of critical systems, which have contributed to production delays.
The IAF air chief, the Marshal Marshal AP Singh, in recent weeks, has publicly laughed in the Defense PSU, noting that his strength was “very disabled in numbers” and needs to induce at least 40 combatants every year to maintain the combat list.
Toi had previously reported that the first of the 99 Turbofán engines F-404That Hal hired 5,375 million rupees in August 2021, would come in March, and Ge promised to deliver 12 engines in the first year and 20 each year from then on.
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GE Aerospace announced on Wednesday that he had delivered the first engine to Hal, which implied the “complex and challenging task” of restarting the F-404 production line after it had remained inactive for five years and forward with the global supply chain for it.
Hal, on the other hand, argues that production can progressively expand to 20 tiles per year, and then to 24 per year, with the third production line now functional in Nashik to add the two existing in Bengaluru.
Until now, IAF has only 38 of the first 40 Texas-1 combatants ordered by 8,802 million rupees under two contracts signed in 2006 and 2010. The first “improved” aircraft of tiles-1A, of the 83 contracted of HAL under the RUPIAS Agreement of 46,898 in February 2021, has not yet been carried out. The order for other 97 Mark-1A tile combatants per RS 67,000 million rupees is also in process.
These 220 aircraft, along with 108 variants of Mark-2 tiles with more powerful GE F-414 engines in the 98 Kilonewton thrust class, are critical for IAF. The force is due to only 30 combat squads when 42.5 is authorized to address the twin challenge of China and Pakistan
Hal and GE, of course, are now carrying out the final technological negotiations for the co-production of the GEN-F414 engines in India, with 80% of the transfer of technology for around $ 1.5 billion.