Aerospace Diary

Neelam Mathews June 15, 2015 Prme Minister Modi and Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Ya'alon, left, have taken the relationship between his nation and India "out of the closet." India’s thrust in the past year to get a greater slice of the international defense equipment pie has resulted in a host of agreements being signed in the first five months of 2015, under the new Narendra Modi government. The country is aggressively tapping the world for hi-tech equipment. Underscoring India’s aerospace technology plans, Minister of State for Defense Rao Inderjit Singh said the focus is to “open opportunities for innovative minds to exploit the globally evolving spirit of teaming up and pooling resources.” Modi has not been shy of talking openly about relations with Israel, which is a top-three exporter of arms, following India’s establishing of diplomatic relations with the country in the early 1990s (which it kept under wraps due to sensitivities). He will become the fi...

 by Neelam Mathews  - February 16, 2015, 12:51 PM Dynamatic Technologies CEO and managing director Udayant Malhoutra says the company’s appointment as a single source tier one supplier by Airbus significantly boosts the Indian content in the European airframer’s products. [Photo: Neelam Mathews] Airbus has appointed India’s Dynamatic Technologies as a single source supplier of flap track beams for A330 airliners. The agreement, announced on the eve of this week’s Aero India show in Bangalore, is the largest manufacturing contract awarded by the European airframer to an Indian private sector company and makes Dynamatic a global tier one supplier. The flap-track work will be divided between Dynamatic’s main factory in Bangalore and the Bristol facility of its UK   subsidiary Dynamatic Oldland. The   UK   plant is handling some work involving materials such as titanium and aluminum for which the Indian facility is not yet certified. Dynamatic wi...

AINONLINE by    NEELAM MATHEWS The Boeing CH-47 is suited for India's austere environment and vast distances, the government believes. (Photo: Boeing) September 3, 2014, 9:27 AM India on August 29 approved industrial offset proposals to acquire 22 Boeing  AH -64E Apache attack helicopters and 15  CH -47F Chinook heavy lift helicopters for the Indian Air Force, a transaction valued at $2.5 billion. The country’s defense acquisition process requires that contracts in excess of $50 million require 30 percent offsets. Last year, Boeing signed a memorandum of understanding with Dynamatic Technologies of Bangalore to manufacture aft pylon and cargo ramp assemblies for the Chinook in anticipation of the larger agreement. The Indian government has declared manufacturing and export as priorities. The allowable limit for foreign direct investment in defense has been increased from 26 percent to 49 percent. The caveat that the ...

Posted by- Neelam Mathews  July 12, 2011 Five agreements signed by EADS last month have extended the scope of the company’s technology licensing outreach with new industrial partners in India and Europe, says the company. The deals include a contract with Germany’s Grenzebach Automation for metallic production technologies based on the friction stir welding solid-state joining process, along with four Letters of Intent with one German and three Indian companies for metallic and composite manufacturing processes.   The Letters of Intent, backed by an EADS engineering services package include- • India’s Dynamatic Technologies for metallic manufacturing processes such as friction stir welding, as well as EADS patented composites production technologies  • Maini Precision Products for metallic and composites technologies • Tata Advanced Materials Limited, covering a broad range of composites and related manufacturing processes, including the EADS-developed and patented Va...