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SP's Aviation - ISSUE No 2-2019

Issue Features

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  MILITARY | COMBAT AIRCRAFT
  Rebuilding the IAF Fighter Fleet Long Road Ahead
  By Group Captain A.K. Sachdev (Retd)

  The IAF’s preoccupation with fighting a two-front war was evident in the planning and conduct of Exercise Gagan Shakti; but its capability to do so was not demonstrated convincingly.

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  MILITARY | FORCE MULTIPLIER
  Multiple Requirements
  By Joseph Noronha

  In view of limited budgetary support, the IAF needs to carefully select cost-effective force multipliers that will speedily enhance its operational potential, power and reach

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  MILITARY | BOEING
  Boeing positions itself for India’s new $20 Billion fighter competition
  By Vishal Thapar

  Tie-ups with HAL, Mahindra and Tata aimed to give edge to the F-A/18 Super Hornet offer

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  MILITARY | UAS
  Unmanned Systems Options for India
  By Group Captain A.K. Sachdev (Retd)

  Unmanned systems are becoming favoured objects of desire for militaries across the world especially as they get wedded to Artificial Intelligence in almost every segment of military technology

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  MILITARY | IAI
  IAI presents new Anti-Submarine Capabilities for RPAs
  By SP’s Correspondent

  Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) is upgrading its capabilities for the maritime arena with anti-submarine capabilities in its marine Remotely Piloted Air Systems (RPAS).

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  MILITARY | IAI
  India is one of IAI’s important markets
  

  Shalom Revivo, Vice President Marketing, India talks to SP’s Aviation about IAI’s business in India

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  INTERVIEW | VIVEK LALL
  “We aim to build enduring, long-term relationships and partnerships with India”
  

  Leading Lockheed Martin’s business activities for India is Dr Vivek Lall, Vice President of Strategy and Business Development.

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  CIVIL | LCC
  Success Comes At Low Cost
  By Joseph Noronha

  The main principles of the first successful major LCC were: point-to-point routes, single-class travel, single-type fleet of Boeing 737s to save on training/ maintenance and using only cheap secondary airports

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  CIVIL | AIRLINES
  SpiceJet Setting an Example
  By Air Marshal B.K. Pandey (Retd)

  SpiceJet added a feather in its cap when in August last year, it became the first airline in India to operate a flight using a blend of ATF and Bio-fuel.

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  INDUSTRY | EMBRAER COMMERCIAL
  A Constant Innovator
  By Satyendra Pandey

  With an unwavering focus by Embraer on producing exceptional jets with enviable economics and focus on innovation, it is a lesson for all in aviation on what is indeed possible

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  BUSINESS AVIATION | ECONOMY
  Contributor to Nation’s Economy
  By Sanjay Julka

  The Government needs to offer an environment and a playing field which is conducive to the growth of Business Aviation

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  MARKETING FEATURE
  Fifth Generation Aviation Complex
  

  Su-57 is a multifunctional 5th generation fighter designed to destroy all types of aerial targets in long-range and close battles.

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  A Word from Editor-in-Chief
  By Jayant Baranwal, Publisher & Editor-in-Chief

  The 12th edition of Aero India, though relatively somewhat subdued, still has drawn some of the major players in the aerospace and defence industry from across the world

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  HALL OF FAME
  Spitfire — Scourge of the Luftwaffe
  By Joseph Noronha

  Although RAF Hurricanes shouldered a greater burden against the Luftwaffe, the Spitfire’s superior performance gave it a far higher victory-to-loss ratio against the German fighter aircraft

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  LAST WORD
  Defence Industrial Corridors
  By Air Marshal B.K. Pandey (Retd)

  Real success in the long term will come only if the products of the aerospace industry in the Industrial Corridor measures up to the stringent global standards.

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  NEWS | DIGEST
  Pradeep Singh Kharola appointed as Secretary, Ministry of Civil Aviation
  

  Pradeep Singh Kharola, an officer of the 1985 batch of the Indian Administrative Service from Karnataka cadre, has been appointed as Secretary, Ministry of Civil Aviation with effect from February 6, 2019.

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  NEWS | DIGEST
  Dassault Announces 2019 Falcon Regional M&O Seminars Schedule
  

  Dassault’s 2019 Falcon Maintenance & Operations (M&O) Seminars will kick off April 9 in Denver, Colorado, and April 10-11 in Paris, France.

• NEWS | DIGEST
  Appointments
  

  Boeing announced the appointment of Salil Gupte as president of Boeing India, effective March 18. Raytheon Company has appointed Ravi Nirgudkar as the President of Raytheon India, effective immediately.

• NEWS | DIGEST: MILITARY | ASIA PACIFIC
  Antonov-32 lands at one of the highest airfields in India
  

  The IAF has landed its Antonov-32 transport aircraft at the Pakyong Airport in Sikkim only four months after Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated the airfield.

• NEWS | DIGEST: MILITARY | ASIA PACIFIC
  Successful test of anti-satellite missile
  

  Russia has conducted another successful flight test of its new anti-satellite missile system last month, according to a classified US intelligence report.

• NEWS | DIGEST: MILITARY | ASIA PACIFIC
  Russia’s fifth-generation fighter jet
  

  Russia’s state hi-tech corporation Rostec told TASS on January 11, 2019 that a new composite material with enhanced radar wave absorbing properties was used to make the cockpit canopy of the most advanced Sukhoi Su-57...

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  NEWS | DIGEST: MILITARY | AMERICAS
  Transport Aircraft contract for Lockheed Martin
  

  Lockheed Martin has won a contract worth $131.6 million for sustainment engineering services for the C-5 military transport aircraft.

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  NEWS | DIGEST: MILITARY | EUROPE
  Rafale Aircraft Upgrade
  

  France has contracted Dassault Aviation with a $2.3 billion for 28 upgraded Rafale aircraft which will be delivered in 2023. The aircraft will include some of the F-4 standard’s function.

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  NEWS | DIGEST: INDUSTRY | EUROPE
  A380 to Cease Production
  

  Airbus will stop production of the world’s largest passenger aircraft, the A380, in 2021. The decision follows the Dubai-based airline Emirates – the largest operator of this iconic aircraft – cutting down its order book for the A380 by 39 aircraft from 162 to 123.

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  NEWS | DIGEST: INDUSTRY | EUROPE
  Architecture study by Airbus and Dassault
  

  According to senior French officials, France and Germany have awarded a two-year, €65-million contract to Airbus Defence and Space and Dassault Aviation to define the general architecture, and the industrial organisation, of their nextgeneration combat aircraft on January 31, 2019.

• NEWS | DIGEST
  Quick RoundUp
  

  The first of 16 Airbus Helicopter H125 training platforms have arrived in Qatar. The Ministry of Defence ordered the platforms in 2018.