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Massive order for the HTT-40!
First flight was in 2016!
This is a great sign of things to come.
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It's a really big deal for the IAF to go back to an Indian designed basic trainer, after the PC-7 Mk2. To be fair, the PC-7 Mk2 has been excellent for the IAF, after all the troubles it faced with the HPT-32 Deepak.
here's an old advert for the HT-2 that was posted recently on Twitter. Way back in the 1950s, designed and built by Hindustan Aircraft Private Ltd. That was before it was nationalized and converted into Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd.
But an order this large will mean thousands of crores of rupees for HAL's suppliers as well as HAL, which will help keep them going for a long time. This is the kind of thing needed to keep a vibrant aerospace industry supplier base. That was something that almost did not exist before the Tejas program began in the early 1990s.
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