Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) and Rolls-Royce have agreed to expand their partnership in India for collaboration in two significant areas – expanding the supply chain for both civil and defence aerospace and establishing an authorized maintenance centre for Adour Mk871 engines to support Rolls-Royce’s global customers.
The two companies signed an MoU to establish an Authorised Maintenance Centre for Adour Mk871 at HAL to support international military customers and operators. HAL already has the capabilities to support a larger customer base, with over 30 years’ experience in MRO of the Adour engines in India, under license from Rolls-Royce.
The two companies have also signed a ‘Letter of Intent’ (LoI) to work towards making Adour Mk871 engine parts in India for several international customers. In addition, HAL has recently been awarded new business with Rolls-Royce to supply forgings including shrouds, cases and seals for Rolls-Royce’s Trent family of engines and for the Pearl 15 engines. These parts would be manufactured at HAL’s Foundry and Forge Division at its state-of-the-art facility in Bengaluru.
MoU signed for anti-torpedo defence system
The Israeli firm, Rafael Advanced Defense Systems and Bharat Dynamics Limited (BDL) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for joint induction of an anti-torpedo defence system called SHADE for the Indian Navy on Friday, reports DHNS from Aero India 2021.
SHADE will be the first system in the world to employ a combination of soft kill and hard kill decoys, thereby providing a robust and effective defence against modern torpedoes.
This MoU will be a precursor for cooperation on futuristic systems for the Indian Armed Forces, entailing advanced ToT, and a very high indigenous content, leading to self-sufficiency in the field of cutting-edge technology in defence.
HAL hands over ALHs to Navy, Coast Guard
HAL on Friday handed over three Advanced Light Helicopter (ALH Mk III) to Indian Navy and two ALHs to Indian Coast Guard as part of its 16 ALHs contract at the ongoing Aero India 2021.
“The remaining helicopters from the contract are under various stages of production and flight tests. We plan to deliver all the helicopters within the contract delivery schedules despite production slowdown due to Covid restrictions,” said HAL CMD, R Madhavan.
Paras Aerospace develops multi-spectral camera for UAVs
Paras Aerospace, a subsidiary of Paras Defence and Space Technologies Limited, has announced that it will shortly unveil an indigenously developed affordable multi-spectral camera for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) for applications in agriculture, urban development and forest survey.
The company, which participated in Aero India 2021, wants to reduce the cost of this critical component in drones to less than Rs 3 lakh per unit.
Currently, UAVs with high-end multi-spectral cameras of international make are priced at Rs 15 lakh and above.