Archive For May, 2018
Tata Lockheed Martin Aerostructures Ltd (TLMAL), a joint venture between Tata Advanced Systems Ltd (TASL) and Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT), today inaugurated a metal-to-metal bonding facility for aerospace sector at Adibatla near Hyderabad. The new 4,700 square-meter metal-to-metal bonding facility adds a new cutting-edge capability to the Indian aerospace industry and enables TASL to use […]
GMR Group, India’s leading infrastructure company, will set up an ‘Aerospace and Defence Manufacturing Hub’ at its Special Investment Region at Hosur in Krishnagiri district of Tamil Nadu, to encourage indigenous production of defence equipment in the country. India stands amongst the top five defence spenders in the world. However, due to an underdeveloped defence […]
The Mahindra Group announced two partnerships for its foray into new areas in the Defence business – one with Israeli company Aeronautics for naval shipborne UAVs (unmanned aerial vehicles) and the other with Japan-based ShinMaywa Industries Ltd for naval seaplanes. Aeronautics and Mahindra plans to supply UAV system that can be launched and recovered from […]
Tata Sons said it is in the process of consolidating its various businesses across aerospace and defence sectors under a single entity Tata Aerospace & Defence (Tata A&D). The necessary statutory and regulatory approvals are in the process of being obtained in this regard, the company said in a release. Tata A&D proposes to bring together over 6,000 employees, and have production facilities […]
US software-industrial conglomerate Honeywell is working on finalising a couple of collaborations with Indian companies for the local production of defence technologies. The company, which has been working with defence PSU Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd (HAL) for more than four decades, is looking at new partnerships on the lines of its tie-up with Tata Power’s Strategic […]
Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd. is boosting production capacity to manufacture locally-developed light combat aircraft, even as it strikes a strategic tie-up with American major Boeing Co. to bid to make F/A-18 fighter jets in India. Although the public sector aircraft maker has fallen behind on deliveries of the first group of 40 ‘Tejas’ planes ordered in […]