HAL-SAAB likely to upgrade Tejas

[Super Falcon]

I have been confirming this for couple of months now that SAAB would be engaged on the LCA projects. Here it is

IAF would have

1) 126+ RAFALEs under MII project (MMRCA)

2) 200+ F-16s under DTTI

3) SAAB would be partnering on the LCA projects



HAL-SAAB likely to upgrade Tejas
Source: The Hitavada Date: 01 May 2016 11:55:40

By Kaushik Bhattacharya,

NAGPUR,

Apr 30,

HINDUSTAN Aeronautics Limited (HAL) is planning to do joint venture with Swedish aerospace and defence company SAAB for the upgradation of indigenously developed Tejas Light Combat Aircraft (LCA) to Tejas Mark-IA soon. SAAB will most likely insist on a Government-to-Government deal whether to collaborate with HAL on upgrading the Tejas LCA.

A team of SAAB is on a tour to India to discuss about the potential partnership. This Swedish aerospace company is trying to insist India to include their front-line fighter jet Gripen in Indian arsenal. According to sources in Ministry of Defence, “SAAB’s Gripen is a good front-line fighter jet and India needs more than 300 aircrafts of the LCA type hence exploratory talks are on with SAAB to see if they canbe a technical partner for the upgraded Tejas.”

Indian defence officials have repeatedly spoken about a possible joint venture with a foreign fighter manufacturer to upgrade the Tejas LCA over the last year–inparticular fitting the fighter jet with the more powerful General Electric F414-GE-IN56 engine.

The LCA Mark-I version is powered by a General Electric F404- GE-IN20 turbofan engine. However, his plan appears to have been abandoned for the Tejas Mark-IA since it would have required a complete redesign of the aircraft. SAAB displayed their technologies and specially the capabilities of Gripen during the recently held Def expo 2016 in Goa where this Swedish company offered Gripen to India along with Tejas. Keeping this in mind, Ministry of Defence is planning to collaborate with SAAB for upgradation of LCA.

The Tejas LCA is a supersonic, single-seat,single-engine multirole light fighter ircraft,which has been under development for the past three decades. It has been co-developed by the Aeronautical Development Agency in cooperation with HAL to replace the IAF’saging fleet of MiG-21a nd MiG- 23 aircraft. However, the Mark-I version of the Tejas fighter jet is suffering from numerous technical issues Including inadequate electronic warfare capabilities,amal functioning on board radar system, as well as reduced internal-fuel capacity among a host ofotherissues.The improved version of the fighter jet is supposed to fix all these technical issues.

http://thehitavada.com/Encyc/2016/5/1/HAL-SAAB-likely-to-upgrade-Tejas.aspx

What happen to all ur lies of indigenous
Now ur accepting it by posting it ur engineers are doing nothing asking Saab and dassault to help

LCA is 100 percent imported

We don't lie thunder is indigenous it is made by both China and Pak

We assemble 60 percent in Pak

At least be truthful to itself why u keep losing to indians

 

[AMCA]

That would make sense if the expectations were meant for an imported fighter. In this case its led to a homegrown project being almost scuttled. Basically, the IAF kept stabbing HAL in the back.

The issue in here is that the IAF has far too many options to choose its replacements from and LCA is anything beyond just a contender. It is only now the project is getting the support it required in the mid 2000's .

What happen to all ur lies of indigenous
Now ur accepting it by posting it ur engineers are doing nothing asking Saab and dassault to help

LCA is 100 percent imported

We don't lie thunder is indigenous it is made by both China and Pak

We assemble 60 percent in Pak

At least be truthful to itself why u keep losing to indians

You may say that to satisfy your Ego ! But at the end of the day LCA is Designed, developed and Manufactured in India and about JF-17 this is not the right forum to insult that machine.

 

[Indian Jatt]

So in other words, indigenous efforts were either not good enough, or weren't there at all in some cases ?

Yes they were not upto the mark for a country like india, i dont know for Pakistan..... Tejas was built to be the lightest fighter Inceptor with good payload and fighting capabilities, it lacks many things which have been listed out and have been rectified, the time we have spent and all the development and research work done has moulded the indian aerospace industry in recent past, we will make quality planes in near future...

 

[Sinnerman108]

Yes they were not upto the mark for a country like india, i dont know for Pakistan..... Tejas was built to be the lightest fighter Inceptor with good payload and fighting capabilities, it lacks many things which have been listed out and have been rectified, the time we have spent and all the development and research work done has moulded the indian aerospace industry in recent past, we will make quality planes in near future...

Care to explain the Tejas related boasting and posts prior to now ?

The forum's search button should be of help.

 

[Indian Jatt]

Care to explain the Tejas related boasting and posts prior to now ?

The forum's search button should be of help.

Sure thing sir,
But iam an optimist, i would hope for a better fighting machine, if others can make better machines, even we can try to do so.....
I won't pull JF 17 in here, according to Pakistan's need and time its one of the best fighters, but here in IAF's case they want a complete fighter once in for all...and thats not possible for even LM or even Boeing, indian army had demanded for multi barrel assault rifle, as a result not even single company or manufacturer was able to fulfill the needs......
Tejas is still incomplete and incompatible to IAF's doctrine, IAF is still potent force and is strong in asia, it just needs some time to think.....

 

[dadeechi]

HAL seeks SAAB support for LCA Tejas
With the ministry of defence (MoD) setting a 2018 deadline for making the first upgraded Light Combat Aircraft ‘Tejas’, state-owned Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) is seeking help from Swedish company SAAB.
By: Huma Siddiqui | New Delhi | Updated: May 4, 2016 8:03 AM
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SAAB CEO Hakan Buskhe had recently said the company will offer any help to the indigenous light combat aircraft project. (Express photo)
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With the ministry of defence (MoD) setting a 2018 deadline for making the first upgraded Light Combat Aircraft ‘Tejas’, state-owned Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) is seeking help from Swedish company SAAB.

T Suvarna Raju, chairman and managing director, HAL, told FE, “For enhancing the capability of the indigenous LCA, HAL is in talks with the SAAB.” “By June 2016, our company will hand over the fourth aircraft to the Indian Air Force (IAF). The four aircraft will make up for the first squadron of IAF which will be used for training,” he added.

Last June, India and Sweden had signed several agreements to boost ties and decided to restart the bilateral strategic dialogue besides finding ways for investment by the Nordic country in India’s defence sector under the ambitious ‘Make-in-India’ initiative.

Swedish defence major SAAB is likely to insist on a government-to-government (G2G) deal if they assist India in developing and manufacturing a light fighter.

SAAB CEO Hakan Buskhe had recently said the company will offer any help to the indigenous light combat aircraft project.

Ulf Nilsson, head of SAAB’s aeronautics division, had earlier told FE that, “We are open to partner with HAL in developing the next version of indigenous Light Combat Aircraft Tejas.”

According to Raju, “The plan is to give 22 indigenously manufactured LCA to the IAF by 2018. There were some teething issues with the Mark-I version of the ‘Tejas’ as well as some design issues those have been resolved.”

The Tejas LCA is a supersonic, single-seat, single-engine multirole light fighter aircraft, which has been under development for the past three decades. It has been co-developed by the Aeronautical Development Agency in cooperation with HAL to replace the IAF’s aging fleet of MiG-21 and MiG-23 aircraft.

India needs about 300 aircraft of the LCA, therefore to speed up induction of the ‘Tejas’, the MoD has decided to upgrade the aircraft with over 40 modifications. SAAB’s help would be needed in ensuring these modifications pass IAF’s tests. IAF currently plans to acquire 120 Tejas aircraft, with 100 of these having major modifications. The force wants Active Electrically Scanned Array (AESA) Radar, Unified Electronic Warfare (EW) Suite, mid-air refuelling capacity and beyond the vision range missiles.

The customer IAF, which has so far ordered just 20 ‘Tejas’ Mark I for its first squadron that will come up in Sulur in Coimbatore, is actually keen on the Mark II of the indigenous aircraft. Once the LCA obtains FOC, another 20 fighters will be built in the FOC configuration.


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[axisofevil]

SAAB made the most sense... only ANTI US sentiments and Anti nationals would get in the way.

 

[dadeechi]

India is a very important market: SAAB & Scania

The defence to automotive giant Saab believes a further opening up of the foreign direct investment policy will help foreign companies have a greater control in their Indian subsidiaries, reports CNBC-TV18's Priya Sheth.

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India is a very important market: SAAB & Scania
The defence to automotive giant Saab believes a further opening up of the foreign direct investment policy will help foreign companies have a greater control in their Indian subsidiaries, reports CNBC-TV18's Priya Sheth.


.clear_cls{};.td_cls{border: 1px solid black;padding: 15px;}.ml35_cls{margin-left: 35px;} Swedish giants Scania and SAAB are betting big on India and according to both of them the Make In India campaign is one of the cornerstones of their strategy in the country.

The defence to automotive giant Saab believes a further opening up of the foreign direct investment policy will help foreign companies have a greater control in their Indian subsidiaries.

CNBC-TV18's Priya Sheth who is in Stockholm caught up with the top bosses of both the companies and started off by asking the Vice President of Saab, Mats Palmberg whether they will look at increasing their localisation in the country


Mats Palmberg, Vice-President, SAAB

Q: How Saab is looking to invest in India under the Make in India process?

A: Saab is a company in growth and India is a growing market in all aspects and prosperous market going forward. We want to be part of that journey, so India is very important for Saab as a whole. One of the cornerstones in our strategy is the “Make in India” approach. We are a global company today, but we would like to be even more global going forward. We have operations in various parts of the world. We have just recently done a very big deal for Gripen in Brazil and we will do a lot of industrial activities in Brazil as a result for that and that’s the model that we are used to work according to and a model that can be applied also in India.

Stefan Palaskog, President, Scania India

Q: How is India as a market important for Scania?

A: The market in India is very important for us. We have done an investment since some couple of few years now and we are there to stay and we are turning 125 years this year in Scania, so we are long term thinking. We have an investment where we can do 2,500 trucks a year, 1,000 buses a year and we are prepared to double that capacity whenever needed and when the market is picking up and we can follow up that market with investments. What we can see now is that the relatively big optimism was in the year before has now turned into realism and we have to deal with that one, so the market will pick up now.


http://www.moneycontrol.com/news/business/india-isvery-important-market-saabscania_6533041.html

 

[dadeechi]

SAAB would get the LCA deals

Sweden to customise offer to push Gripen-NG fighter aircraft deal with India
The Swedish government will soon place a structured offer to India to push through the Gripen-NG fighter aircraft deal, a product of Swedish defence major Saab, which is also keen to develop production processes in India
By: Indronil Roychowdhury | Stockholm | Published: May 11, 2016 6:22 AM
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The Swedish government will soon place a structured offer to India to push through the Gripen-NG fighter aircraft deal, a product of Swedish defence major Saab, which is also keen to develop production processes in India

The Swedish government will soon place a structured offer to India to push through the Gripen-NG fighter aircraft deal, a product of Swedish defence major Saab, which is also keen to develop production processes in India. Sweden offered the Gripen-NG deal to India when a high-powered Swedish trade delegation visited the country in February this year.

The structured offer could comprise a combination of technology transfer and setting up of a local facility in India to produce aircraft coupled with investment commitments, an Indian embassy official in Sweden said, adding that Saab has already prepared a blueprint for the Indian Air Force’s entire defence system. The IAF pilots are likely to take a test flying of Gripen, a light single-engine multirole fighter aircraft, by the end of this year.

Mikael Damberg, Sweden’s minister for enterprise and innovation, told FE that Saab, which has been in India for a long time, has a proven track record and instead of looking only at exports from Sweden, it was looking at how to develop capability and production processes in India to fit into Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s ‘Make in India’ initiative.

“It has been one of the greatest successes of Saab International that many countries see that the business model is very attractive. Swedish firms and companies are doing a lot of investments in India. One of India’s successful strategies has been attracting international capital. Modern economies are not only about export. They are also about finding the right partners. There are very exiting partners in Sweden and the market in India is exiting,” Damberg told FE on the sidelines of a session of India Unlimited, an initiative of the Indian Embassy in Sweden.

Banashri Bose Harrison, the Indian ambassador to Sweden, said Saab has shown interest for a full and comprehensive technology transfer to India. Saab also has intentions to use India as a production base for supply to other countries.

Though Saab is not a government-run company, the Swedish government is fully backing the project to sell Saab’s Gripen-NG fighter to India.

Indian embassy sources in Sweden told FE that Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Swedish counterpart Stefan Lofven has already signed a joint commitment to continue dialogues in areas of aviation, air defence, combat training and maritime security systems. Following the agreement between France and India for sale and acquisition of 36 Rafale fighters for the IAF, Sweden gave a push to the Gripen-NG deal.

According to Damberg, India has the space to accommodate more than one supplier for acquiring fighter aircraft and Sweden didn’t hide its desire to get actively engaged in the aero space of Indian defence. But the Gripen issue was more at a level of dialogue and the Swedish government or Saab as a company was yet to make any structured offer. The offer might be structured on the lines of the terms set for Brazil in the $4.68-billion deal.

Other than Gripen NG, Saab is also hoping to supply advance surveillance system, electronic warfare, ground combat and naval systems to India expanding its cooperation with Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd, Pipavav Defence, Kalyani Strategic Systems, Ashsok Leyland and others. But the Saab management hoped that the Swedish government would hold government-to-government dialogues in paving the way for cooperation in such areas.

“Our dialogues with India range beyond cooperation in defence and we have signed a number of MoUs with India to take forward the Sweden–India cause,” Damberg said, adding that life science was one of the strong areas where the two nations were working together.

Though the government-to-government talks were defence-centric, it was part of the Swedish government’s plan to use international partnership to drive industrial expansion and job creation within Sweden.

There are possibilities that the Swedish government could link the Gripen-NG agreement with the multi-sector industrial investment programme, which could see rise in trade between India and Sweden down the line. Sweden’s trade in India is expected to reach over $5 billion by 2017 from a level of $2.5 billion in 2015.

Damberg said; “Sweden’s position is very clear. We are a free-trade country and we would like the India-European Union free trade agreement (FTA) to happen. But no negotiation is taking place.” He further said the Swedish business community was keeping an eye on the long-pending Indian GST and it hoped it would ultimately roll out.

(The trip to Stockholm was facilitated by India Unlimited, an initiative of the Indian embassy in Sweden)

http://www.financialexpress.com/art...n-ng-fighter-aircraft-deal-with-india/252573/

 

[dadeechi]

Saab offers next gen Gripen aircraft under Make in India initiative

By PTI | 19 May, 2016, 07.05PM IST


NEW DELHI: Swedish defence major Saab has unveiled its next generation fighter aircraft, Gripen E, which the company today said is being offered to the country under the 'Make in India' initiative with transfer of technology.

Gripen E, which was unveiled yesterday, has significantly improved avionics system when compared to previous versions of the Gripen.

The capability to carry more weapons and improved range performance, is possible with a more powerful engine and the ability to carry more fuel, the company said.

"The Gripen E is a specific configuration of Gripen NG that has been chosen by the Swedish customer. The exact configuration for another customer such as India will depend on discussions with that customer. But yes, we are offering the next generation Gripen to India, under 'Make In India' with transfer of technology," Jan Widerstrom , Country Head and Chairman, Saab India Technologies Private Limited said.

Gripen E is equipped with a highly integrated and sophisticated sensor suite including an Active Electronically Scanned Array (AESA) radar, Infra Red Search and Track (IRST), Electronic Warfare (EW) suite and datalink technology, which, when combined gives the pilot, and co-operating forces exactly the information needed at all times.

Five nations currently operate Gripen: Sweden, South Africa, Czech Republic, Hungary and Thailand. Brazil has ordered Gripen, and it has also been downselected in Slovakia. Besides that, Empire Test Pilots' School (ETPS) uses Gripen as platform for test pilot training.

In 2019, deliveries of the next generation Gripen for Sweden and Brazil will begin.

Saab, which had lost out in the Medium Multi-Role Combat Aircraft tender in 2011 which was won by French firm Dassault Aviation, anticipates that the Indian Air Force (IAF) will need more the 36 Rafale fighter jets that it is buying from France to beef up its depleting fleet.

The company has not only offered to set up a base here but also help in the development of aerospace capability for the next 100 years. It has also offered to partner in developing the next version of indigenous Light Combat Aircraft Tejas and the Advanced Medium Combat Aircraft (AMCA), being developed and designed by Aeronautical Development Agency.

The Indian Air Force had in last October said it would need at least six additional squadrons comprising 108 Rafale fighter jets or similar jets to shore up its capabilities.

With the government cancelling the multi-billion tender for 126 MMRCA, there is renewed hope in the aviation industry that India may go in for fresh bids to fill up the gaps.

Besides Saab, the US' Lockheed Martin, Boeing and the France's Dassault Aviation have offered their jets in line with the government's push for Make in India .

http://economictimes.indiatimes.com...-in-india-initiative/articleshow/52347165.cms