Aerospace India Ltd. has begun delivery of combat helicopter fuselage from its manufacturing facility in Hyderabad.
Announcing that the delivery was made ahead of schedule, the company said that it had come within a year of the aerospace joint venture facility becoming operational. The fuselage is to be transported to manufacturing facility for integration into the final assembly line.
Union Minister of Defence Nirmala Sitharaman had inaugurated the facility, located in Adibatla, on the outskirts of Hyderabad, in March this year. It is spread over 14,000 square metres, and at full production, employs 350 skilled workers.
The facility is the sole global producer of fuselages for helicopter delivered to its global customers. The facility would also produce secondary structures and vertical spar boxes for the multi-role combat helicopter. Describing the delivery as “a major step forward in Advanced Systems’ commitment to make advanced, high quality aero structures,” Aerospace India Ltd. officials said that co-development of integrated systems in aerospace and defence was one of the future opportunities that the joint venture would look at.
‘Big boost’
“The delivery of the fuselage within a year of the facility becoming operational is a big boost to indigenous manufacturing and also demonstrates our commitment to deliver high quality products within a short span of time,” said Aerospace India Ltd. officials
Aerospace India Ltd. is first equity JV in India from a 2015 partnership agreement with TASL. Construction of the manufacturing facility began in 2016 and was completed a year later. Aerospace India Ltd. and TASL have worked closely to develop a pool of highly skilled aerospace talent through skill development initiatives.
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US Defense Industries and Indian Defense industries will work on more bigger projects which would be for arming, upgrading of allied forces with latest equipment and to keep the enemy out of our nations. but this doesnt means that upgrading of any allied forces doesnt means that the allied forces are not having any Defense technical industrial base for example Islamic Republic of Afghanistan and Republic of Iraq are having industrial base in production of tanks and even artillery systems.
Possibilities of Joint ventures between US and Indian Defense Industries will even have LEMOA stands for Logistics Exchange Memorandum of Agreement (LEMOA)
specific version of the Logistics Support Agreement (LSA), which the U.S. has with several countries it has close military to military cooperation.
