Archive For October, 2013
It is learnt that Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh chaired a meeting on 9 July at New Delhi to review the proposed national project to design, develop and produce a ‘futuristic’ civil airliner. This would involve creation of a special purpose vehicle (SPV) to include Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) along with the National Aerospace Laboratories […]
A unit of Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd. (HAL) will be established at Bidarehallakaval in Gubbi taluk of Tumkur district, according to MP Mr G.S. Basavaraju. He told presspersons that 772 acres and 7 guntas of government land was available at Bidarehallakaval. The unit would come up at an estimated cost of Rs. 4,000 crore and it […]
Thanks to expanding overall defence cooperation with Russia, India considerably widened its footprint at the 11th International Aerospace Show, MAKS‐2013 held last week in Zhukovsky , a satellite town of the Russian capital. This year the premier Indian aerospace giant Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) and New Delhi‐based Indo‐Russian joint venture ‐ BrahMos Aerospace Limited set […]
The Indian version of the fifth‐generation fighter aircraft (FGFA) being developed with Russia will be lighter, more powerful and less visible to enemy radars than the original Russian version, according to a senior executive at Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd. India will modify and customise the prototype Russia has developed independently. “While the Russian version of the […]