HAL BOEING AND MDS Jointly Announce Partnership for FA-18 Hornet Make-in-India Initiative

·   Partnership to deliver affordable combat–proven fighter capabilities with growth potential and industrial capability to build India’s aerospace industry.

·        Partnership  to strengthen and build on HAL –Boeing-MDS’ Make in India success

Chennai, India, April 12, 2018 – HAL today announced a partnership with Boeing and Mahindra Defense systems (MDS) for manufacturing the FA-18 Super Hornet in India and pursuing the joint development of future technologies. The partnership will transform India’s aerospace and defense eco-system further building on its ‘Make in India’s success.

Speaking on the occasion, MR. T. Suvarna Raju, CMD-HAL Said, “HAL has always been at forefront of development in India’s aerospace sector. This partnership with Boeing and Mahindra Defense Systems will create an opportunity to develop capabilities of the aerospace industry and strengthen indigenous platforms in India thereby contributing to the Make-in-India activities.”

“Boeing is happy to team up with HAL, India’s leading company that manufactures combat fighters along with India’s company that manufactures small commercial airplanes, Mahindra. This partnership brings the best of Indian public private partnership (PPP mode) together with world’s largest aerospace company. Boeing to accelerate a contemporary 21^st Century eco-system for aerospace & defense manufacturing in India” said Mr. Pratyush Kumar, President , Boeing India.

Future production with Indian partners will involve maximizing indigenous content and producing the FA- 18 in India thereby creating a 21^st Century aerospace eco-system.

The Super Hornet Make in India proposal is to build an entirely new and state-of –the-art production facility that can be utilized for other programs like India’s Advanced Medium Combat Aircraft (ACMA) program.

This partnership is intended to bring HAL, Boeing and MDS global scale and supply chain its best-in-industry precision manufacturing processes as well as the unrivaled experience designing and optimizing aerospace production facilities to both expand India’s aerospace eco-system and help realize the Make in India vision.

@Sunrise Mirror @@!!!