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EOS_Anzeige_Aerospace_Seminarmagazin_indien.indd 1 04.04.2014 14:48:38 Uhr Contents 43 7 Tejas inducted into 45 squadron of Indian Air Force

8 Radiant surge : Tejas Soare

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38 SportJet by Sukhoi unveiled

40 ADMS 2016: A grand success

48 Thales, Elettronica strengthen ties in Electronic Warfare

51 Boeing, Mahindra Defence Systems Open C-17 Training Center for IAF

52 Foundation stone laid for DR. Kalam memorial

55 Farnborough International Airshow records $123.9bn deals

59 DPP to ensure corruption free Defence : Parrikar

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6 Tejas inducted into 45 squadron of IAF

he Light Combat Aircraft (LCA), on flight testing of LCA prototypes. planned in a phased manner. The IOC Tejas, has been inducted into Tejas is the first advance Fly-by- aircraft are armed with close combat TNo. 45 Squadron of Indian wire (FBW) fighter aircraft designed, air to air missiles, helmet mounted Air Force (IAF). The squadron, also developed and manufactured in India. display and precision guided weapons called the ‘Flying Daggers’, was last Conceived as a MiG-21 replacement, like laser guided bombs. These aircraft equipped with MiG-21 Bis Aircraft the aircraft has been designed are also capable of dropping unguided and operated from Nalia. It's motto and developed by Aeronautical bombs with much higher accuracy is "Ajeet Nabha". The squadron will Development Agency (ADA) and due to highly advanced indigenous operate from Bangalore for nearly two produced by Hindustan Aeronautics mission computer. The FOC aircraft years before it moves to its designated Limited (HAL). It is to the credit of its would incorporate Beyond Visual location at Sulur near Coimbatore. It is designers, manufacturer, technicians Range (BVR) missiles, improved and the first fighter squadron to be a part and test crew, that LCA has flown more better stand-off weapons and air to of the Southern Air Command of IAF than 3,000 sorties / 2,000 hrs till date air refueling capability. IAF is also headquartered at Thiruvananthapuram. without any accident. Tejas is a 4th pitching for additional LCA Mk 1A which Group Captain Madhav Rangachari, Plus generation aircraft with a glass would incorporate new generation an alumnus of the National Defence cockpit and is equipped with state of Active Electronically Scanned Array Academy, is the Commanding Officer of the art satellite aided inertial navigation (AESA) with simultaneous air Flying Daggers. He flew the inaugural system. It has a digital computer based to air and air to ground capability, flight of LCA in 45 Squadron on July attack system and an autopilot. It an integrated advanced Electronic 1, 2016. Apart from operational can fire air to air missiles, bombs as Warfare Suite, advanced versions of experience on Mirage-2000 and MiG-21, well as precision guided munitions. air to air and air to ground weapons he also has considerable experience The induction of the aircraft is being and maintainability improvements.

7 Radiant Surge:

ejas, the smallest lightweight, IAF raises the first LCA squadron called multi-role, single-engine the ‘Flying Daggers’ 45 in Bengaluru. Ttactical fighter jet in the world, Tejas, already reckoned “superior” jointly developed by Aeronautical to Pakistan’s JF-17 Thunder, that is Development Agency and Hindustan produced with the help of China, was Aeronautics Limited in India, is finally inducted into the Indian Air Force at the enlisted by the Indian Air Force as Aircraft System Testing Establishment in the centrepiece of its new Flying Bengaluru on July 1. Two combat-ready Daggers 45 Squadron, setting base in Tejas fighter jets were handed over Bengaluru. We examine how the LCA to the IAF by the State-run Hindustan has become the game-changer for Aeronautics Ltd, the manufacturer and the whole gamut of aerospace and principal partner of the LCA project, as defence dynamics in the country part of the total of six that the IAF hopes It cannot possibly substitute the to commission this year to build the first high-end medium multi-role combat LCA squadron of 20 aircraft. Tejas is the aircraft like Rafale or a heavy-weight designated replacement for the IAF’s one like Sukhoi-30 MK1, but Tejas, India’s ageing fleet of MiG-21 fighter planes. indigenously developed Light Combat For the first two years, the Flying Aircraft (LCA) – the smallest and lightest Daggers LCA squadron will be based multi-role supersonic fighter jet of its in Bengaluru, after which it will move class – promises to provide the Indian to Sulur in Tamil Nadu. The IAF has said Air Force (IAF) more than what they Tejas will feature prominently in the had asked for – a MiG-21 replacement. force’s combat plan next year and it Three decades after it went on the might be deployed in forward bases as drawing board and 15 years after it well. There are also plans to acquire over flew for the first time, Tejas is finally 80 aircraft with better specifications, joining the ranks of frontline jets like known as Tejas MK1A in the future. Sukhoi, Jaguar, and Mirage 2000, as the HF-24 Marut fighter-bombers

8 Tejas Soarswere the first indigenously built aircraft in India to be inducted into the IAF. In April 1967, IAF had formed the first operational squadron with Hindustan Fighter Maruts built by Hindustan Aeronautics. With the 1971 war, India shifted its focus to imported fighters such as the Migs, Jaguars and Mirages, and HAL was used only for licensed production of the aircraft. Altogether 147 Maruts were built, and these fighters were retired from IAF service in 1985. Even before that, the HF 24 assembly line at HAL had been shut down and the design team wound up. In the early eighties, it was realised that no organisation existed which had the total capability to develop such an aircraft all on its own. The only way left was to develop an aircraft from scratch. Radiant Move It was in 1984 that the government of India moved decisively to kick-start the process to build another indigenous aircraft. Aeronautical Development Agency (ADA) was set up by the government to develop the LCA programme. In 1986, Rs 575 crore was allocated by the government towards funding the programme. On January 4, 2001, the light combat aircraft made its first flight, a milestone in the Indian aviation industry. Then Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee named the aircraft ‘Tejas’ – which means ‘radiance’ in Sanskrit. The single-engine, compound-delta-wind, tailless LCA is designed and developed by ADA with HAL as the principal partner along with DRDO, CSIR, BEL, DGAQA, Indian Air Force and . The LCA programme was launched primarily

9 lightest weight possible and yet strong at maximum speed of 2,205 km/hr for FOC the same time. 45 per cent of its airframe, version and 2,000 km/hr for IOC version. including in the (doors and skins), wings (skin, spars and ribs), elevons, World-class Features tailfin, rudder, air brakes and landing gear Among those who have argued that doors is made of CFC materials. These as a light fighter based on requirements materials also call for fewer joints or rivets, that were last updated more than a increasing the aircraft’s reliability and decade ago Tejas would be obsolete by lowering its susceptibility to structural the time it is scrambled for a combat cracks which may be caused by fatigue. role and insisted there are better options Tejas is also distinctive with its Glass available in the world market, now Cockpit, which refers to a modern cockpit there is a grudging acceptance that for developing a replacement for India's in which all the round dialled electro- the LCA is, in many ways, world-class. ageing MiG-21 fighters which had been mechanical instruments have been Every pilot that has tested the jet has the mainstay of the Indian Air Force since replaced with Multi-Function Displays sworn by the Tejas's flight control system the 1970s, and achieving self-reliance in (MFDs) and a Head Up Display (HUD). and the ease with which it manoeuvres. design, development and production A glass cockpit uses several displays Fitted out with Israeli Elta 2032 multi- of critical weapon systems to guard the driven by flight management systems, mode radar, state-of-the-art Derby air- sovereignty of our country. The value which can be adjusted to display flight to-air missiles to attack enemy jets, and of the aerospace ‘self-reliance’ initiative information as needed. This helps modern laser designator and targeting was not simply the production of an in simplifying aircraft operation and pods to hit ground targets, the Tejas is aircraft, but also the building of a local navigation, thus allowing pilots to focus indeed as capable as the French-built industry capable of creating state- only on the most necessary information. Mirage 2000, the aircraft used by HAL as of-the-art products with commercial In terms of the weapons that it can its benchmark. Not a single Tejas fighter spin-offs for a global market. The LCA carry, Tejas is designed to host a veritable has been lost to an accident or shown programme was intended in part to plethora of air to air, air to surface, any distress in the skies or on the ground further expand and advance India's precision guided and standoff weaponry. during flight tests during 3,000 sorties. indigenous aerospace capabilities. In the air to air arena, the Tejas carries Some critics would say that the long range beyond visual range weapons. indigenous components and systems Unique Design in Tejas are insignificant – the engine is Tejas fighter jet is designed to meet the Tejas, At Last American, its radar and weapons Israeli, tactical requirements of a modern air After an inexplicably prolonged its ejection seat British, in addition to force and is a multi-role aircraft capable span of waiting, India’s indigenous several other imported systems and of comprehensive air superiority and light-weight fighter jet, Tejas, subsystems. HAL, the lead player in air defence roles. Its composites-built takes off wearing the colours the LCA project, would counter that airframe and small size enhance its and insignia of Flying Daggers 45 pointing out that leading Western stealth features translate into a small Squadron of the Indian Air Force. aircraft designs like the French Rafale radar signal, making it incredibly difficult and the Swedish Gripen also have to be detected. Other scoring points A wide variety of air to ground imported systems because it's simply include manoeuvrability, ability to carry munitions and an extremely accurate too expensive and too time-consuming weapons and weight of the aircraft. navigation and attack system allow it to to develop components that have been It also has features that make it easier prosecute surface targets over land or at perfected and are available for purchase. for the pilot to operate the aircraft. sea with unparalleled accuracy, giving the The jet itself is constructed using The LCA design was finalised in Tejas true multi/swing role capability. Indian-made carbon fibre composites 1990 as a small tail-less compound Contributing to the aircraft’s excellent which are light-weight and ultra-strong delta wing configuration with relaxed performance in a wider flight envelope alternatives to metal. A host of general static stability, optimised primarily are specific aerodynamic features: systems dealing with everything from for manoeuvrability and agility. In Highly optimised wing, with appropriate fuel management to steering of the simple terms, this means it can be variation of thickness, camber and twist nose-wheel are all made in India. The manoeuvred in any direction regardless along the span; cross-sectional area fly-by-wire system of Tejas that gives of pure aerodynamic principles. distribution along the length, adjusted computer-controlled inputs to charter the It has the fly-by-wire system, which for good high speed characteristics; flight of the aircraft is completely Indian. means that the manual flight control has Leading Edge slats, scheduled for To deal with enemy jets, the Mission been replaced by an electronic interface favourable aerodynamic behaviour; Computer which processes data provided which automatically manoeuvres the wing-shielded bifurcated air intake duct, by sensors like the radar is Indian. In fact, flight, helping it stabilise, when needed. with diverters, suitably matched with the hardware and the software of the Signals sent by the aircraft computers engine to avoid buzz and to minimise Mission Computer have been designed are translated into actions by the aircraft distortion throughout the flight envelope. around an open architecture framework itself, without the input of a pilot. Its maximum speed is supersonic at all which means that it can be upgraded The material that Tejas is made of is altitudes and it has service ceiling of in the future. A key sensor, the Tarang chosen such that the aircraft can be of the 50,000 feet. The aircraft can travel at a Radar Warning Radar, which lets the pilot

10 know of enemy aircraft or surface-to-air and development of Naval Version of missiles in the vicinity, is also Indian. LCA for operation from aircraft carriers. Tejas Specs Modern fighter aircraft, including the A significant milestone of the maiden air force's top gun, the Sukhoi - 30, are ski jump launch of the first LCA Navy First flight flown on January 4, 2001 notoriously unreliable and maintenance- Prototype was successfully carried out in Total test flights flown till date: 3,184 heavy. Less than 60 per cent of Sukhoi Goa in December 2014. The LCA's Naval Inducted into Indian Air fleet is available at any one time to variant is to be ready for carrier trials Force: July 1, 2016 conduct missions, a huge concern for and is slated for deployment on the INS Can fly at heights up to 50,000ft the Air Force. HAL says the Tejas will be Vikramaditya as well as the Vikrant class Maximum speed can exceed the available more than 70 per cent of the aircraft carrier. It will be equipped for speed of sound (1,300kmph) time when called in for missions and are carrier operation with the capability to Wingspan: 8.20m targeting a minimum of 80 per cent, far carry out ski-jump take-off and arrested Length: 13.20m in excess of what the IAF is presently able landing. It will include strengthened Height: 4.40m to achieve with most of its other jets. airframe and landing gear and the nose Weight: 6,560kg is drooped for better cockpit vision. Improved Configuration Besides the Naval variants, two-seat indigenous defence manufacturing." The first lot of 20 LCA Tejas, to which operational conversion trainer for the The credit for single-handedly pushing the two available aircraft belong, is IAF is planned along with SP-1 to SP-40 against the initial resistance of the IAF being built in what is called as Initial Series production that started in 2013. to induct the LCA Tejas, which was first Operational Clearance configuration. proposed as early as 1980s, must go to Final Operational Clearance (FOC), with Future Development Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar, who integration of all weapons like guns, laser- LCA AF MK2 is an improvement over LCA said Tejas meets the critical lightweight guided bombs and BVR (beyond visual AF MK1 with higher thrust engine. This fighter aircraft requirements of the force range) missiles as well mid-air refuelling aircraft will have improved survivability, and will also be available for export to capability, is likely to be achieved by maintainability and obsolescence friendly nations. The original plan was March 2017. With that done, 20 more mitigation. Active Electronically Scanned that six squadrons each of MMRCA and LCA will be built in that configuration. Array (AESA) Radar, Unified Electronic Tejas would replace the existing 10 MiG- From there on production of LCA Tejas warfare Suite (UEWS) and On-Board 21 and four MiG-27 squadrons. Parrikar Mark 1 will cease and 80 aircraft of Mark Oxygen Generation System (OBOGS) are said: "In the next four to five years, 1A configuration, the aircraft the IAF is some of the state of the art technologies we can add about six LCA squadrons really eyeing, will have to be made and planned to be integrated. The cockpit if we push HAL, which I am doing." proven. Tejas Mark-II version, which would design has been improved with bigger Restricting the acquisition of expensive have more powerful engines, airframe size, smart Multi function Displays (MFD) twin-engine French Rafale fighters to changes, weight and drag reduction, will and smart Head Up Display (HUD). just 36 for now, instead of the original begin to come in only by 2021 or so. LCA Navy MK2: LCA Navy Programme plan for 126 medium multi-role combat Defence Ministry's statement to is to design and develop a Carrier Borne aircraft, Parrikar had clarified that he Indian Parliament last year put the Fighter Aircraft. Two prototypes, a two was trying to plug operational gaps in figure incurred on the LCA programme seat Trainer (NP1) and a single seat airpower by improving serviceability at Rs 7,399.69 crore. The total Fighter (NP2) with more internal fuel of Sukhoi-30MKIs as well as "pushing" outlay including the naval variant is have been developed in Phase-1 of the DRDO-HAL combine to deliver Tejas estimated at Rs 14,033.2 crore. The the programme. Phase-2 of LCA Navy faster. He indicated that Tejas may even aircraft is being developed in single- Programme envisages development get some competition in the light- seat fighter and twin-seat trainer of two single seat fighter aircraft with weight fighter category. Some other variants for the IAF and the Navy. a new higher thrust engine (GE-F414- single-engine, lighter fighter other than INS6) and further design optimisation the home-grown Tejas could also be LCA Navy to reduce drag. LCA Navy MK2 would considered for a ‘Make in India’ project LCA Navy Programme to design and undergo weight reduction through a to replace the obsolete MiG-21s, he said. develop a carrier-borne fighter aircraft redesigned landing gear and associated The IAF is down to just 34 fighter was sanctioned in 2003 after the structure and increased internal fuel as squadrons when 44 are needed. successful initial flight testing of LCA critical driving factors in its design. LCA "There could be scope for a single- (Air Force) variant, Tejas. Indian Navy Navy MK2 will have enhanced mission engine fighter, which would be much has entrusted the ADA with the design performance and better maintainability. cheaper than Rafale, somewhere between the capabilities of Rafale and Unparalleled Pride Tejas," the Defence Minister said. Prime Minister Narendra Modi Augmenting the production summed up the spirit of the Nation capacity of the LCA is a big challenge on the induction of Tejas into the for HAL, which had earlier made a Air Force, saying it is a matter of valiant attempt to make the Kaveri "unparalleled pride and happiness." engine for Tejas, but failed. Modi tweeted: "This illustrates our T. Suvarna Raju, Chairman and skills and strengths to enhance Managing Director, Hindustan

11 Aeronautics Limited (HAL), said: "We have 1986 Multi-Mode Radar (MMR) for established manufacturing infrastructure Government allocates Rs575 crores LCA design work starts at HAL in Bengaluru for production of eight for the LCA programme. Programme Hyderabad division and LRDE. LCA per annum. The rated capacity to develop an indigenous power plant would be achieved once the Standard (engine), Kaveri, is launched at GTRE. 2001 of Preparation (SOP) is frozen by ADA." January 4: Historic first flight of SOP in simpler terms is the configuration, 1987 the Technology Demonstrator TD-1 design and a host of other technical Project definition commences in marking a new era in the aviation specifications which unless frozen, the October 1987 with French aircraft major history of India. Prime Minister Atal maker cannot start serial production. Dassault Aviation as consultants. Bihari Vajpayee names LCA – ‘Tejas,’ "HAL has submitted a proposal to the meaning ‘Radiance’ in Sanskrit. Defence Ministry to ramp up the rate 1988 of production from eight aircraft to 16 Project definition phase 2002 per annum. HAL is planning to establish completed in September 1988. June 6: TD-2 makes the facilities within three years from successful maiden flight. the date of approval," he added 1989 CD Balaji, Director ADA, said: Government review committee 2003 "Updates will keep taking place as expresses confidence in LCA programme. Tejas crosses sonic barrier for the aircraft is flown more often." It is decided that the programme would the first time. November 25: PV-1 Here, a quick fly-past over be implemented in two phases. makes successful maiden flight. the major milestones: 1990 2005 1980 Design of LCA is completed as a December 1: PV-2 makes Defence Research and Development tail-less compound delta winged successful maiden flight. Organisation (DRDO) gets permission relaxed static stability aircraft. Phase to initiate a programme to design and 1 (Technology Demonstrator) of 2006 develop a Light Combat Aircraft. the development is commenced December 1: PV-3 flies for the first to create the proof of concept. time for 27 minutes at an altitude of 2.5 1984 km and at a speed of Mach 0.8. PV-3 Government of India sets up 1993 is equipped with a more advanced Aeronautical Development Agency Full funding is approved from pilot interface, refined avionics (ADA) as the nodal agency developing April 1993 and development work and higher control law capabilities the LCA and managing the programme. for Phase 1 starts in June. compared with the previous versions.

1985 1995 2007 Indian Air Force generates First technology demonstrator, April 25: First Limited Series Production Air Staff Requirements (ASR) TD-1, rolls out on 17 November. LCA (LSP-1) makes first flight and reaches for LCA in October 1985. a speed of Mach 1.1 in the very first flight. 1997 PV-2 and PV-3 undergo sea-level trials at

12 INS Rajali Naval Air Station, Arakkonam flight. April 23: LCA Tejas LSP-3 makes Aircraft from the batch of 20 ‘series to study the effects of flying at sea-level, maiden flight. LSP-3 is close to the production’ flies for about 25 minutes as all earlier trials have been conducted final configuration including the new in Bengaluru, piloted by HAL’s Chief Test in Bengaluru which is 3,000 feet (910m) air-data computers, Multi Mode Radar, Pilot Air Cmde K.A. Muthanna (Retd). above sea-level. The reliability of the new communication and navigation November 8: LCA Tejas PV-6 (Prototype LCA systems under the hot and humid equipment and radar warning receiver. Vehicle 6), a final configuration two-seater conditions, as well as low level flight With this the LCA programme has trainer aircraft, successfully completes characteristics is tested. September 7: completed 1,350 test flights logging maiden flight at HAL Airport in Bengaluru. Tejas Prototype Vehicle (PV-1) makes a about 800 flying hours. June 2: First December20: First prototype of successful flight with two external drop Flight of LCA Tejas LSP-4. In addition to LCA Tejas Naval version, LCA NP-1, tanks of 800 ltrs capacity. October 25: the LSP-3 standard of preparation, the completes maiden ski-jump as part Tejas PV-1 fires R-73 (CCM) missile for the aircraft also flies with the Countermeasure of the carrier compatibility tests at first time. Trials are conducted off the Dispensing System. November 19: the shore-based test facility in Goa. Goa coast at INS Hansa Naval Air Station. First Flight of LCA Tejas LSP-5. December 11: LITENING targeting pod 2015 is successfully tested on Tejas PV-2. 2011 January 17: LCA Tejas Series January 10: Certification for Production-1 (SP1) is handed over 2008 the Release to Service. by Defence Minister Manohar May 28 to June 4: LCA Tejas prototypes Parrikar to Indian Air Force Chief Air PV-2 and PV-3 undergo hot weather 2012 Marshal Arup Raha in Bengaluru. trials at Air Force Station, Nagpur. March 9: Tejas Light Combat Aircraft, February 7: Second Prototype June 16: Tejas second Limited LSP-7 accomplishes maiden flight of the Light Combat Aircraft, the Series Production LCA (LSP- from HAL Airport in Bengaluru. NP-2, flies maiden flight from HAL 2) makes its first flight. April 29: Naval version of LCA Airport in Bengaluru. Piloted by November 7: LCA Prototype Vehicle-3 Tejas, makes maiden flight from Capt. Shivnath Dahiya (Indian Navy), makes first successful night flight. the HAL Airport in Bengaluru. the aircraft performs flawlessly. December: PV-3 and LSP-2 complete the high altitude test at Leh, world's 2013 2016 highest operational airfield. February 22: The LCA takes part in the January 21-23: Tejas for the first time Iron Fist Exercise in Pokhran, Jaisalmer. participates in an International Air Show 2009 March 31: Tejas Light Combat Aircraft, in Bahrain. The display of India's defence January 22: Tejas completes 1,000 LSP-8 accomplishes maiden flight technology comes at a time when the flights. October: PV-3 and LSP-2 complete from HAL Airport, Bengaluru. government is giving a strong push to air-to-ground weapons delivery trials. December 20: Initial Operation its flagship 'Make in India' programme. November 26: Two seater (Trainer) version Clearance – 2. Defence Minister A.K. May 18: IAF Chief Arup Raha has of Tejas (PV-5) makes maiden flight on Antony hands over the ‘Release to Service his first sortie in LCA Tejas; says it’s 26 November 26. December 7: Tejas Document’ of the LCA to The Chief of a “good aircraft” for induction. speed envelope expanded to 1,350 km/h Air Staff Air Chief Marshal NAK Browne. July 1: Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (CAS) while performing flight flutter hands over the first two Tejas aircraft test in a dive to near sea level. These 2014 to Indian Air Force which will make tests are conducted at INS Hansa, Goa. October 1: Nine months after receiving up the 'Flying Daggers' 45, the name the penultimate flight worthiness of the first squadron of the LCA. 2010 certification, IOC-2 (initial operational June 6: TD-2 makes successful maiden clearance), the first Tejas Light Combat

13 Boeing 100 From producing wood-and-fabric floatplanes to transforming how we fly over oceans and into the stars, the Boeing Company has, over a century, become the world’s largest aerospace enterprise and America’s biggest exporter. The world celebrates the legend and legacies of Boeing, marking its centennial of innovations in flight with memorable events

the decades involving some of the most prominent aerospace companies in the world, including McDonnell Aircraft, Douglas Aircraft, North American Aviation/Rockwell, Piasecki/ Vertol, ' helicopter and space companies, and Stearman etc. The legacy of those great aerospace companies reflects products such as the 7-series jets, including the first oeing is in transit from its first hundreds of thousands more skilled successful commercial jetliner, the centennial of glorious history, people working for Boeing suppliers 707; the Douglas DC jets, Douglas Btaking off to greater expectations worldwide. Sales rose six per cent World Cruiser, C-47 Skytrain and A-4 of the second century. During the last year to nearly $100 billion. Total Skyhawk; the North American B-25 past 100 years, Boeing has gone from company revenues for 2015 were $96 Mitchell, P-51 Mustang, F-86 Sabre Jet, handcrafting small canvas and wooden billion. The Boeing Company’s backlog F-100 Super Sabre, B-1B Lancer and wings for biplanes out of a converted of orders is worth half a trillion dollars. X-15; the McDonnell F-4 Phantom II, boathouse to producing strategic B-17 In the century since William Edward McDonnell Douglas F-15 Eagle, C-17 Flying Fortress and B-29 Stratofortress Boeing took the fortune he made in Globemaster III and F/A-18 Hornet; the bombers of World War II, Cold War B-52 timber and turned it to the emerging, CH-47 Chinook, AH-64 Apache and Superfortress, Minuteman missiles, moon thrilling field of aviation, his company V-22 Osprey; the B-17 Flying Fortress, vehicles, space modules and the 707 has delivered more than a few world- B-29 Superfortress, B-47 Stratojet, B-52 jetliner and the iconic 747 Jumbo Jet that changing machines. During the past 100 Stratofortress and KC-135 Stratotanker; revolutionised commercial flight, to the years, humans went from walking on the Saturn and Delta rockets and high-tech carbon-fibre composite wings Earth to walking on the moon. They went Gemini, Mercury, Apollo, Space Shuttle of the 787 Dreamliner and becoming from riding horses to flying jet airplanes. and the International Space Station. the world's largest aerospace company With each decade, aviation technology As the United States' biggest and America’s biggest exporter. crossed another frontier, and with each manufacturing exporter, Boeing Boeing jets, in service around the globe, crossing, the world changed. William supports airlines and US and allied carry 675 million passengers annually Boeing had summed up his company’s government customers in more than – the equivalent of 12 per cent of the mission: "To let no new improvement in 150 countries. Boeing products and world's population. Headquartered in flying and flying equipment pass us by." tailored services include commercial Chicago, the American multinational And sure enough, in the century since, and military aircraft, satellites, weapons, corporation that designs, manufactures nothing and no one has outflown Boeing. electronic and defence systems, and sells airplanes, rotorcraft, rockets, From its first biplane to the composite- launch systems, advanced information and satellites worldwide besides bodied 787 Dreamliner, Boeing's history and communication systems, and providing leasing and product support is filled with countless significant performance-based logistics and training. services, employs approximately moments. It is at once the history What distinguishes Boeing from all 160,000 people across the United States of one company and the story of an those aero companies that are no longer and in more than 65 countries. The industry. Boeing’s massive size today around is that it has consistently brought company also leverages the talents of reflects mergers and acquisitions over products to market that changed the

14 companies, since it is the sole customer for military planes and missiles, and it regulates virtually all commercial aerospace products. Boeing learned that lesson early, when airmail contracts with the post office kept it in business during the interwar period. After World War II, its most successful designs were adapted for use by both the military and airlines. For instance, the 707 jetliner was based on a design also used to construct hundreds of aerial refuelling tankers and radar planes for the Air Force. While the Apollo capsule was built in Downey, the second and third stage boosters that would rocket our first men to the moon were built in Seal Beach and Huntington Beach. These projects competitive landscape. For instance, Boeing's early planning for flights to were by North American Rockwell when the Army Air Corps solicited Mars in the next century is one of them. and McDonnell Douglas divisions proposals for a “multi-engine” bomber Airborne Laser Testbed (ALTB), and EA- since folded into Boeing. In 1973, in 1934, all of Boeing’s competitors 18G Airborne Electronic Attack Aircraft Boeing’s Huntington Beach site, then assumed that meant two engines. But too are part of such a versatile legacy. McDonnell Douglas, was responsible Boeing offered a four-engine behemoth There are many interesting accounts on for converting a Saturn V rocket into that became the famous B-17. Similarly, the company's successes and its failures Skylab, America’s first space station. while competitors were trying to match – notably, attempts to diversify into such Just a few years after Huntington the success of the 707 jetliner in the things as furniture, boats, windmills, Beach paved the way for humans to live 1960s, Boeing offered the first Jumbojet. potatoes, and milk. Boeing's big crash in space, Seal Beach worked to ensure That pattern of confounding was during1969-71 when the payroll we wouldn’t lose our way here on the expectations continues at Boeing was trimmed from 101,000 workers to ground. In 1978, the site developed Block today with the V-22 Osprey tiltrotor 38,000. The company later rebounded I Global Positioning System satellites, the that combines the vertical agility of a to an annual $6.5 billion profit. earliest GPS system. People relying on helicopter with the speed and range of Boeing’s Delaware Valley rotorcraft their phones to get from point A to point a fixed-wing plane. No competitor has operations are partly housed in a B wouldn’t have map apps without the anything like it. The 787 Dreamliner converted factory that once was home groundwork set by workers in Seal Beach. is far superior to anything Airbus to the Baldwin Locomotive Company. Boeing’s Anaheim facilities shut down will be offering in the near future. Baldwin was the biggest locomotive in 2006, but half a century ago the Although the European jetliner builder in the world, but it failed to area mirrored Orange County’s space house can sometimes beat Boeing on make the transition from steam to diesel feats with work in the sky and below pricing, its technology is inferior. engines, so now it is gone. Similarly, the sea. Once known as Autonetics, a In parallel with the awe-inspiring McDonnell Douglas was the world’s division of North American Aviation, legends and intriguing paradoxes, there leading fighter company in the 1960s and and then Rockwell, the sprawling are many lesser known aspects too in 1970s, but it faltered in the transition to campus was renowned for cutting its bumpy history: Boeing once went 17 low-observable (“stealth”) airframes, so edge guidance systems that supported months without seeing a single domestic it ended up being absorbed by Boeing. three generations of Minuteman jetliner and came close to bankruptcy. Boeing has learned to adapt to a intercontinental ballistic missiles and Tex Johnson, one of its legendary test changing marketplace. For instance, allowed the famed submarine, the USS pilots, unexpectedly barrel-rolled a new when the company lost its leadership Nautilus, to be the first to dive below prototype jetliner, the 367-80, into which in piston-powered fighters in the 1930s, the North Pole’s ice. At its peak, during the company had sunk one-quarter of it turned to bombers. When Airbus the Cold War, the Anaheim facility its net worth, over Lake Washington threatened its commercial markets boasted as many as 36,000 employees. during Seafair, because he thought the in the 1990s, it bulked up in defence Boeing’s Seal Beach facilities have stunt would help sell the airplane. That and offered the 777 widebody (the evolved into a major commercial airplane the Boeing Company built the first stage world’s biggest twin-engine jetliner). operations centre. Huntington Beach has of the Saturn rocket that started men Many of its competitors — Douglas, been contracted by NASA to develop a on the way to the moon, developed Martin, McDonnell — never quite Crew Space Transportation System to the Minuteman missile system, and is recovered from the loss of their founders. ferry astronauts between Earth and the now designing America's space station Boeing found a way of adapting International Space Station and recently may not be familiar stories to many. no matter what the challenge. designed a next generation underwater Some of the futuristic items in this Government’s role has been especially vehicle for ocean exploration. gripping industrial epic stand out. important in the success of aerospace Marking a century since it was first

15 incorporated as Pacific Aero Products on July 15, 1916, Boeing employees, customers, communities and fans around the globe are joining together to celebrate the centennial and imagine the technological breakthroughs and innovations yet to come. Boeing employees, family members, and retirees gathered at the Museum of Flight in Puget Sound, near the with free education resources that were co-created by Boeing engineers Celebrating 100 Years of World Changing Achievements and leading educational content providers. (http://www.boeing.com/ William Edward Boeing (Bill Boeing), born in Detroit principles/education/100-days.page) Above and Beyond: The global to a German immigrant named Wilhelm Böing, headed interactive flight and space education exhibition has opened in Nagoya, West in 1903 after his Yale education to make a fortune Japan, joining London and Seattle for concurrent engagements; since in the timber industry in Southwest Washington’s Grays launching in July 2015, the exhibit has had nearly 3 million visitors. (http:// Harbor. It’s the year of the Wright brothers’ first flight. aboveandbeyondexhibition.com)

In 1908, Bill Boeing moved up to Seattle and turned his Age of Aerospace: The documentary series chronicles aerospace history focus from timber to wood products, including a furniture through the evolution of Boeing and its heritage companies. Broadcast factory and boatyard. On July 4, 1915, Bill Boeing took around the world and available in 18 languages, the series has just his first plane ride with a barnstormer who was touring debuted in France on Aerostar TV. (http://theageofaerospace.com) the country in a floatplane during an Independence Day Centennial Experience Pavilion: celebration in Seattle. Boeing decided he could build a A special exhibition telling the innovation story of Boeing's past, better plane than the one the daredevil was piloting, and present and future was open to the public at the Farnborough International a year later he set up a small company to do that. Airshow outside London recently.

Innovations app: The Boeing company's birthplace on July 15, 2016 this company to building something Innovations app, available in iTunes to celebrate Boeing’s 100th birthday better, is alive in the generations of and Google Play, features Boeing and kick off a three-day Founders our people who continue to deliver products with interactive, 3-D models. Day Centennial Celebration. products and services that matter and More details on Boeing's centennial Visitors were treated to roaring positively change lives around the and ways to join in the celebration, flyovers and a display of historic world," said Dennis Muilenburg. "As visit Boeing100.com and search airplanes including the Douglas DC-3 we embark on our second century, #Boeing100 on Twitter. and B-25D Mitchell, which visitors could our commitment to excellence is actually climb into. A full lineup of all of stronger than ever, our potential for These are the major milestones Boeing 7-Series jets was also on display. achievement is as great as it was for our of Boeing legend and legacy: Other highlights included a light show founders, and our goals must be even projected on the body of a 747 and more bold, visionary and inspiring." 1916 a festival at the Museum of Flight. As part of the celebrations of Boeing Bill Boeing’s first twin-float sport “Few companies have achieved as completing its first century of existence seaplane, designed by Conrad Westervelt, much as we have,” Boeing Chairman, and entering into the second century, a Navy Officer, is built in a boathouse on CEO and President Dennis Muilenburg various inspirational programmes and the shores of Seattle’s Lake Union, where told the gathering. “Today we media campaigns are organised: Boeing berthed his yacht. It’s named the celebrate that legacy together while 100 Days of Learning: This educational B&W, for Boeing & Westervelt. Boeing imagining what comes next.” campaign aims to inspire the next is at the controls for the floatplane’s "The innovative spirit of our founder, generation of aerospace visionaries first flight on June 15. A month later, Bill Boeing, who 100 years ago dedicated by providing teachers and students on July 15, he founds the Pacific Aero

16 Products Co., which he renames the company makes furniture, speedboats east of the Mississippi becomes United Boeing Airplane Company the next and planes with large designed Aircraft (the precursor to the modern year. His first engineer is Beijing-born for water landings and takeoffs — behemoth United Technologies), and Wong Tsu, a new graduate of the flying boats. Boeing buys several mail everything to the west becomes the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, carriers and forms United Air Lines; Boeing Airplane Co. Embittered over who sets to work on the Boeing Model plane manufacturing and air service the airmail scandal, Bill Boeing sells his 2, also referred to as the Boeing Model C are both controlled by Bill Boeing’s stock and cuts all ties to his company plane. The design, drawing on research United Airplane & Transport Corp. July and turns to breeding thoroughbred from MIT’s wind tunnel and French 7, 1925: First flight of the Model 40. horses and hang out on his yacht. engineer Gustave Eiffel, becomes Designed to carry mail, it is also Boeing’s Boeing’s first financially successful first passenger plane. The planes fly 1939 aircraft. Two were built and sold to the passengers and mail across the country, Pan American Airlines asks Boeing for New Zealand government, becoming with the longest coast-to-coast route a long-range, four-engine flying boat the company’s first international sale. taking 27 hours each way. As technology to ferry passengers across the Atlantic advances, Boeing wins new military plane and Pacific oceans. Boeing uses the 1917 contracts. In 1927, Model 15 fighters are wings and engine pods of its giant XB-15 The legendary Red Barn, or Building barged to an aircraft carrier in Elliott Bay. bomber to develop the whale-shaped No. 105, where Bill Boeing had built his Boeing and Pratt & Whitney create a huge Model 314, nicknamed the ‘Clipper’ with yacht on Washington's Duwamish River aerospace conglomerate, called United a range of 3,500 miles. Passengers travel south of downtown Seattle, becomes the Aircraft and Transportation Corp. In1929. in luxury, with meals catered by four- first Boeing aircraft factory. Craftsmen star hotels, 74 seats that convert into and women built 1930 40 bunks for overnight trips, dressing The Boeing Model 200 Monomail of the rooms and a dining salon/bridal suite. early 1930s dropped 1940 With the onset of

parts by hand, primarily from wood the biplane configuration in favour of a World War II, Boeing camouflages its and fabric. With a US Navy order for 50 single, cantilever wing, and 575-hp Pratt factories in South Seattle to make them Model C seaplane trainers, Boeing hires and Whitney Hornet engines. All metal look like a residential area, with canvas woodworkers to build the airframes construction and retractable landing houses and fake trees on factory rooftops and seamstresses to sew fabric for gear marked it out as one of the first to hide them from aerial bombing. The the wings and control surfaces. Wong modern transport airplanes, even if the B-17 Flying Fortress plays a strategic Tsu returns to his native China, and pilot still flew from an open cockpit at role in the US Air Force’s bombing Boeing hires two graduating University the rear. The Model 200 carried mail on campaign against German industrial of Washington engineers, Clairmont the San Francisco-Chicago route, and and military targets. Among the cities Egtvedt and Philip Johnson, who would the Boeing Monomail 221 updated the hit is Wilhelm Böing’s hometown of become pillars of the company. design to carry eight passengers in a Hohenlimburg, a centre of metalworking. compartment at the front. Now that Boeing hires its first black employees in 1919 airplanes are carrying people, not just 1942. Within a span of two years, Boeing Bill Boeing delivers the last Model mail, Boeing hires a registered nurse to fly boosts production from 60 aircraft C to the Navy and has one built for with passengers. Ellen Church becomes a month to 362 a month. More than himself, which he promptly uses for the world’s first airline stewardess. 12,000 B-17s were built in one decade. the then-novel idea of airmail delivery. Bill Boeing and Eddie Hubbard make 1934 1945 North America’s first international mail A scandal erupts over how airmail Boeing submitted a proposal for the delivery, flying 60 letters to Seattle from routes have been divided among the B-29 Superfortress to the US Army in Vancouver, British Columbia, . biggest carriers. The US government, 1940, just before the country joined the using its antitrust powers, decides fray of WW II. The long-range, heavy 1920 plane makers can’t also own airlines. duty bomber was outfitted with the Boeing built propellers in the early Boeing’s United Airplane & Transport very latest tech, including a pressurized 1920s for MB-3A Army pursuit biplanes. Corp. is forced to shed United cabin and aft crew area, connected With the end of World War I, Boeing’s Airlines. The company also splits its by a long tube over the bomb bays. In plane sales plummet. To survive, the manufacturing operations: Everything one of the first uses of computers on a

17 plane, it had remote control weaponry, the mainstream. The Dash-80 morphs timber town of Everett gets the global so one gunner and fire control officer into the 707. It’s not the world’s first limelight when Boeing picks it as the site could direct four machine gun turrets. jetliner — that distinction belongs to for the 747 factory the largest building On August 6,1945, the Enola Gay, a the British de Havilland Comet — but in the world by volume. The so-called B-29, drops the world’s first atomic bomb it’s the first to get the formula right, ‘Queen of the Skies’ enters service in on Hiroshima, Japan, killing more than ushering in the Jet Age. On December 20, 1970 and it holds the distinction of 65,000. Three days later a second B-29, 1957, the 707’s maiden flight. It outsells being the world’s biggest passenger Bockscar, drops another atomic bomb on all competitors by wide margins. The plane for 37 years, until the Airbus A380 Nagasaki. Japan surrenders six days later, plane ultimately became the workhorse superjumbo comes on the scene. changing the course of world history. of the world's major airlines, as well as the first purpose-built Air Force One. 1968 1947 The 737 enters service with Germany’s The Boeing B-47 Stratojet was designed 1958 Lufthansa Airlines. Sales are slow to drop nuclear bombs on the Soviet On October 26, 1958, Pan American at first but it eventually becomes Union. It never saw combat as a bomber, World Airways flew the inaugural a best-seller, the workhorse of the but its radical new design made it transatlantic 707 jet service between industry for short-haul routes. ideal as a photographic and electronic New York and Paris, with one fuel stop in reconnaissance plane. First flown in 1947, Newfoundland. Promotional materials 1969 its 116-foot, swept back wings, and six filled with images of families promised First flight of the 747 on February 9, pod-mounted jet engines made it look a quicker, smoother, comfortable, 1969. When it entered commercial service unlike anything that in 1970, the 747- had come before, and 100 could hold helped set the design 500 people standards still used – more than today. The first models twice as many had 18 small rocket as a 707. New units in the fuselage large-thrust jet for ‘jet-assisted takeoff,’ engines took and used parachutes to it up to 570 cut the landing speed. mph. The 757 follows five 1955 months later. With military sales The down and Douglas is a mid-size, Aircraft’s propeller narrow-body planes dominating the twin-engine world’s commercial jet that air traffic, Boeing bets was designed the company on a jet and built airplane for passenger service. The and safe flight. The 707's popularity by Boeing Commercial Airplanes. It company invests all the profit it has pushed the development of airports, is the manufacturer's largest single- made since World War II on the 367-80, which needed upgraded terminals aisle passenger aircraft and was or ‘Dash 80’ prototype jet but has trouble and baggage handling for the growing produced from 1981 to 2004. persuading airlines to give it a chance. passenger numbers, as well as air traffic So President Bill Allen invites aviation control systems. But in the end the 707 1971 bigwigs to Seattle for Seafair and plans a proved too small to handle them all. The aerospace industry nose-dives simple flyover to show off the new plane. amid soaring gas prices and the high Test pilot Alvin ‘Tex’ Johnston wows 1964 cost of the Vietnam War. Then federal the crowd by executing two surprise Boeing’s 727 design shifts from funding for the SST gets cut, and barrel rolls over Lake Washington. The four engines to three, with one in Boeing is forced to slash 60,000 jobs. daring stunt in the 248,000-pound front of the tail. Hijacker D.B. Cooper aircraft works: Pan Am orders 20 within parachutes from a 727 with $200,000 1980 a month, and the plane becomes in cash in 1971 somewhere above Boeing concurrently develops the the famous forerunner of the 21,000 Southwest Washington, never to be 757 and 767 jets, as Airbus Industrie the company has built since. found, prompting Boeing to modify introduces fly-by-wire controls and the plane so its back stairs can no becomes a credible competitor. 1956 longer be lowered in flight. September 26,1981: First flight of Bill Boeing dies of a heart attack aboard the 767. The is a mid- to his yacht, the Taconite, at the age of 74. 1967 large-size, long-range, wide-body Building on the success of the 707, twin-engine jet airliner built by Boeing 1957 Boeing makes the world’s first wide-body Commercial Airplanes. It was Boeing's By the 1950s, jet engines were ready for jumbo jet, 747, for Pan Am. The sleepy first wide-body twinjet and its first

18 airliner with a two-crew glass cockpit. air travel and boost oil prices, forcing the Boeing plant in Everett. airlines to delay scores of plane orders. 1990 Boeing drastically cuts production 2009 In March1990, Boeing’s 737 becomes and lays off thousands of workers. Boeing abandons longer-term plans the world’s best-selling jetliner when for a complete replacement of the United takes the 1,832nd 737. The 2002 737 and instead offers a 737 MAX is a short- to medium-range Boeing kills its Sonic Cruiser program, model with upgraded engines. twinjet narrow-body airliner. Originally proposed in March 2001 to fly at developed as a shorter, lower-cost twin- nearly the speed of sound, as airlines 2011 engined airliner derived from Boeing's struggling with the post-9/11 outlook The 787 Dreamliner finally enters 707 and 727, the 737 has developed into say they need more fuel-efficient planes service after a three-year string of a family of ten passenger models with instead. The company’s engineers setbacks and delays. Still, the plane a capacity of 85 to 215 passengers. respond with the 7E7 (“E” standing for racks up orders at record speed. “efficient”), which becomes the 787. 1990 2012 Some 10,000 Boeing employees build 2003 Boeing decides to shutter its large portions of the B-2 stealth bomber’s Boeing formally launches the 7E7. military operations in Wichita, wing and aft fuselage in Seattle, under It’s the first jetliner made of lighter- its final presence in Kansas. contract to Northrop Grumman. As weight plastic composites instead Boeing engineers leave that program, of aluminum, and features electrical 2013 they utilize the composites expertise flight systems and new engines and The 787’s woes continue as the entire they’ve developed to conceive a lighter, wings — a combination that promises fleet is grounded globally after the stronger tail for the new 777, and later, to to reduce fuel and increase range. model’s new lithium-ion batteries create the first composite fuselage for an lead to a fire in a parked plane and airliner, the 787. The 777 is also the first 2004 smouldering in another during in flight. Boeing plane designed digitally (with Vought and Alenia, two of Boeing’s computer-aided design, or CAD) and partners for the 7E7, build their factories 2015 the first to adopt fly-by-wire controls. in South Carolina. When Boeing is forced Boeing builds its last C-17 cargo to take over the facilities and their plane and shutters its plant in 1997 troubled assembly lines in 2008 and 2009, Long Beach, California. Boeing acquires beleaguered the site gives the company a Southeast plane maker and defence contractor foothold where it later sets up a 2016 McDonnell Douglas. The merger leads to manufacturing hub to rival Puget Sound’s. Boeing started its century with woven a Boeing-Airbus duopoly in commercial- canvas and ended it with woven carbon jet manufacturing, as other rivals can no 2005 fibre. The 787 Dreamliner built from longer compete and begin to withdraw. Boeing sells its huge parts plant in one-piece composite barrel sections Boeing reports its first-ever annual loss. Wichita, Kansas, to Spirit AeroSystems, instead of aluminium sheets, is Boeing’s the culmination of a years-long strategy most fuel efficient airliner, offering quiet, 2001 of shedding facilities from Texas to heavily pressurized cabins. It’s setting Boeing announces moving its Spokane. Considerable in-house the standards for modern flight, at least corporate headquarters to Chicago. expertise goes with the various plants. until the next plane comes along. At the Renton plant, 737 production Now Boeing prepares to is put on gigantic assembly lines, 2007 develop the next generation of where the planes are tugged along The 787 Dreamliner’s first model jets by 2030 while it winds down the factory floor at 2 inches a minute. unveiled to a worldwide audience production of the 747 and 767. The Sept. 11 terror attacks devastate on July 8, 2007, at ceremonies at

19 INS Viraat sails on her own steam for one last time Indian Navy’s Aircraft Carrier, INS The ship will be towed back to Mumbai the entire globe about 27 times. She Viraat, set sail for Kochi from Naval on completion of dry-docking in played a major role in the Operation Dockyard Mumbai for essential repairs October end, for the decommissioning Jupiter in 1989 (Indian Peace Keeping and dry docking (ERDD) at the Cochin ceremony later this year. operations in Sri Lanka) and Operation Shipyard. This is the last sailing under INS Viraat was commissioned into Vijay in the year 1999 (Kargil War). her own propulsion as the oldest the Indian Navy on May 12, 1987. The The ship also participated in various serving aircraft carrier of the world is ship operated Sea Harrier (White Tigers international joint exercises like slated for decommissioning later this fighter aircraft), Seaking 42B (Harpoons, Malabar (with US Navy), Varuna (with year. Flag Officer Commanding-in- anti- submarine helicopters), Seaking French Navy), Naseem-Al-Bahar (with Chief Western Naval Command Vice 42, (Commando carrier helicopters) and Oman Navy) and has been an integral Admiral Girish Luthra and other senior Chetak (Angles - SAR helicopter) as her element of all major naval exercises. officers of the command, visited the main air elements. The Sea Harrier fleet The last operational deployment of the ship and interacted with the crew prior was decommissioned in Goa recently. ship was for participation in International to her departure. The aircraft carrier Under the Indian Flag, various aircraft Fleet Review (IFR-2016) at Visakhapatnam. was escorted out of harbour by Fast have flown more than 22,034 hours Having served the country and the Interceptor Craft and helicopters from from the decks of INS Viraat. She Navy for nearly three decades, INS the Western Naval Command. It was spent nearly 2,250 days at sea sailing Viraat handed over the mantle of carrier indeed an emotional moment for the 5,88,288 nautical miles (10, 94,215 operations to INS Vikramaditya which Navy, as INS Viraat leaves Mumbai for kilometres). This implies that Viraat has was commissioned in the year 2013. ‘one last time’ under own power. been at sea for over six years covering

The second aircraft carrier of the country has spent 29 years under the Indian Flag and 27 years with the Royal Navy (United Kingdom). The ship holds the Guinness Record for being the oldest serving warship. INS Viraat is a Centaur-Class Aircraft Carrier and served in the Royal Navy as HMS Hermes, which was the flag ship of Royal Navy during the Falk Lands Campaign of 1982. She is commonly referred to as the ‘Grand Old Lady’ among the Naval community.

20 21 Success on a plate

hen it comes to supplying Raw Materials for the Aerospace Industry, Amari Aerospace - an Aero Metals WAlliance company, based on the UK’s south coast, are probably about as passionate as it gets about ‘getting it right’. David Enright Amari Aerospace is a company that attributes its rapid growth General Manager, Amari Aerospace from its humble beginnings in 2007 to the multi-million-pound business it is today, to one thing - Service. Amari Aerospace’s

22 growth plans and current commitments have almost become a given, allowing to major OEM’s and their supply chains. us to focus our attention on the people Amari Aerospace is a The recent investment of the new that make the business as strong as it company that attributes equipment adding to Aero Metals is. They are developed, appreciated its rapid growth from Alliances’ existing bank of 20 aluminium and encouraged to treat the business its humble beginnings in plate saws, will allow Amari Aerospace as if their own. The expectation of 2007 to the multi-million- to reduce an already competitive cutting respect and a duty of care we give pound business it is today, lead time whilst maintaining its rapid our employees, seems to get passed to one thing Service. response capability for urgent and on to our customers, it works”. AOG cut plate and bar requirements. Amari Aerospace’s success has meant Enright says “We need to remainprice- it has become a strong link in the General Manager David Enright says, “In competitive of course; reducing cost Aero Metals Alliance, supporting its an industry where our product must be is high on most businesses’ agenda, other members with Aluminium plate consistent and conforming, service has however, genuine sustainable cost and bar whilst utilising the diversity become our USP. As our metals can’t reduction rarely means cheap spot prices. of metals, strength in state of the art really perform any better than those Delivering on time, every time is vital near net shape producing equipment, of any other supplier, maintaining and to a performing, profitable supply and location of the other members. finding ways to continually improve our chain. If low cost raw materialis your key Aero Metals Alliance(AMA) was created service has become an obsession”. purchasing criteria regardless of quality to meet the demands of a global Enright adds “That’s about ensuring of service, honestly - Amari are probably aerospace manufacturing industry and that our customer’s expensive machining not your best supply partner option”. centres are never without raw material Maintaining an SC21 Bronze award Amari Aerospace’s feed stock. As a distributor, stock is key, for business excellence, demonstrates the right stocks have to be available and Amari Aerospace’s ongoing commitment General Manager David well maintained in line with customer toachieving a world class raw material Enright says, “In an industry demand for both spot business and LTA’s”. supply service. Continually improving Initially an Aluminium & Steel bar its OTIF and PPM performance are where our product must be supplier and still a fundamental part essential for its current journey consistent and conforming, of the business, Amari Aerospacehas towards attaining SC21 Silver award. grown exponentially in the Aluminium service has become our Plate sector with significant investment Amari Aerospace maintains that its USP. As our metals can’t in 2000 and 7000 series plate stock and position in the global raw materials really perform any better value added processing equipment. market, achieved through consistent To meet increasing demand and reliable service is down to the people- than those of any other the need for shorter lead times, centred ethos of the business. Enright supplier, maintaining and the business has justadded a third concludes “We’ve been very fortunate Plate Saw to their plant list, supplied that our investors have always been finding ways to continually by German Manufacturer Otto there to support the business in its improve our service has Mayer Maschinenfabrik GmbH. ambitious growth endeavours”. This recent investment provides “With that financial strength behind us, become an obsession”. additional capacity to facilitate Amari’s the appropriate stock and equipment

provide a refined structure that enables a pooling of resources and technical ‘know how’ to cover the entire range of customer requirements, through a coordinated effort with worldwide reach. AMA provides materials and supply chain management services to the world’s leading aerospace companies and currently operates from ten Service Centres in five countries throughout the Americas, Europe and Asia Pacific. This enables the business to aggregate demand across a single supply chain on behalf of the world’s leading OEMs whilst at the same time providing a truly responsive local service to meet the needs of individual sub- contractors anywhere in the world.

23 Brimstone Weapon trials with typhoon success

UK Eurofighter Typhoon has successfully completed an “The integration of both the Meteor and Storm Shadow initial series of flight trials with the Air-to-Surface MBDA weapons is at an advanced stage of design and these successful ABrimstone precision strike missile ahead of firing trials as trials are an important step on that journey. The integration of part of a programme of work to integrate the weapon on to the these capabilities means the aircraft now really accomplishes aircraft. every possible role in the combat scenario.” The tests were conducted using UK Typhoon Instrumented Mario Mutti, Test Pilot for Leonardo Aircraft, said: “Meteor brings Production Aircraft (IPA) 6 and led by BAE Systems with the to Typhoon an unparalleled Air-to-Air engagement capability, support of Eurofighter GmbH, MBDA and the UK‘s Ministry of while Storm Shadow will add an attack stand-off capability to Defence. Typhoon and provide an enhanced ability to engage difficult to Conducted from BAE Systems’ site in Warton, Lancashire, the penetrate targets. The capabilities currently being tested will trials were used to test successful airborne communication bring major enhancements to Typhoon’s unmatched Air-to-Air between the aircraft and missile and gather valuable flight data abilities and combat proven Air-to- Surface capability.” to ensure a mature product is ready for initial firing trials which Andy Flynn, Eurofighter Delivery Director for BAE Systems, are due to take place in the first quarter of 2017. said: “This has been an incredibly productive time on Typhoon It is the latest in a series of successful flight trials conducted by development where the power of the partner companies is the Eurofighter partner companies in recent months as part of visible as we have active Brimstone, Storm Shadow and Meteor a major programme of work to add additional capability on to flight test campaigns in operation. The trials also form important Typhoon. Central to the programme is the weapons integration maturity points for the UKs Project CENTURION plan, which work as part of the Phase 2 and Phase 3 Enhancement (P2E/P3E) continues the UK RAF Typhoon Enhancements programme that packages, which will bring additional long range and precision will bring together the platform upgrades, improved synthetic strike capabilities to Typhoon. training and a whole force approach to capability delivery.” The integration of the deep strike MBDA Storm Shadow missile, In addition to the weapons capabilities, the enhancement led by Leonardo, is continuing. This builds on the ground trials of packages bring improvements to the radar, DASS (defensive aids the weapon and two successful releases of Storm Shadow from sub-system) and other avionics which will enhance the aircraft’s Italian IPA2 in 2015. The close collaboration between the partner lethality and survivability across all roles. companies, especially Leonardo and BAE Systems, is ensuring The integration of both Storm Shadow and the Meteor missiles the required capability is delivered in both the P2E and P3E continues throughout this year as part of the contracted P2E programmes. programme, ahead of Customer Operational Evaluation and In addition, further firing trials have been completed with Training during 2017. The continued integration of Brimstone MBDA‘s Meteor Beyond Visual Range Air-to-Air missile. The will see firing trials scheduled for early 2017 and then through to sixth in a series of firings, which were also completed in June by Entry Into Service in 2018. aircrew from Leonardo using IPA2 at the UK‘s Hebrides range, were intended to continue to expand the clearance envelope of the weapon validate the modelling and simulation that has been performed by the Eurofighter Partner Companies, Selex and MBDA. Steve Formoso, Chief Test Pilot for BAE Systems, said: “These first flight trials of the Brimstone weapon with Typhoon are a significant milestone on the path to integration and delivery of the weapon to Typhoon. Brimstone brings to Typhoon a precision-guided Air-to-Surface weapon which will effectively engage fast-moving targets with low-collateral damage.

24 CONTROP to Supply Optronic Sensor Systems for

ONTROP Precision Technologies night anti-aircraft protection by means field trials and is enthusiastic due to Ltd, a company specialising in of the advanced automatic air tracking the outstanding performance of these Cadvanced electro-optics (EO) system. The FTA cameras will be supplied optronic systems in harsh environmental and infrared (IR) defence and homeland throughout 2016–17. conditions." security solutions, has announced the The unique FTA is a ruggedized day/ CONTROP has supplied dozens of FOX supply of hundreds FTA Optronic Sensor night optronic sensor system, which thermal imaging cameras to a large Systems for the Air Defence Systems includes the FOX-250, a high performance Public Sector Undertaking (PSU) systems' programme for the Indian Army. Thermal Imaging Camera and a high integrator in India, as part of the new Naval Following extensive product assessment, performance color CCD Day Camera, each Fire Control Systems Programs. These FOX the FTA was chosen by the Indian Army with a continuous optical zoom lens. thermal imaging cameras, which include to be part of an Air Defence Systems CONTROP's VP Marketing Johnny CONTROP's proprietary Continuous Zoom programme with the modern upgrade of Carni said: "The Indian Army chose our Lens, have been interfaced with a Weapon the L-70 Air Defense Gun, providing day/ FTA System following very successful Station and with Fire Control Radar.

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25 IAI signs $40 Million SCD Introduces Cyber deals in Asia Advanced IR Detectors

emi Conductor Devices (SCD), systems, enabling visibility for dozens a leader in the development of kilometers in even the most difficult Sand manufacture of cooled and atmospheric conditions – including uncooled infrared detectors and laser humidity, rain, dust, fog and smoke. diodes, introduced three advanced Additional applications include an image IR modules for a variety of electro- intensifier replacement (for goggles, optical applications at the Defexpo weapon sights, etc.) and enhanced night India 2016 held in Goa last March. vision for driving sights. The Cardinal The PELICAN-D LW is a cooled IR detector is fully operational and provides Joseph Weiss detector for gunner sights, designed a unique, superbly clear picture. Main President & CEO,IAI for unmanned armoured vehicles, Main features include a high frame rate and a Battle Tanks (MBTs), and Armoured Fight low floor noise mode. Among its unique Aerospace Industries (IAI) Vehicles (AFVs). It enables the recognition features, the Cardinal includes a special announced signing significant cyber and identification of a NATO target at very function capability of Asynchronous deals, worth more than $40 million, with long ranges, day and night. The Type-II Laser Pulse Detection (ALPD), which customers in Asia. The deals include Super Lattice (T2SL) sensing material enables a "see spot" capability at a establishing an advanced nationwide allows ongoing reliable, high quality, and pixel level and in complex scenarios. system for monitoring and analyzing more efficient production. Based on the Baruch Glick, SCD's CEO, said: "We of cyber events an advanced cyber Pelican-D MW mechanical and electrical continue to develop the most advanced protection suite for mission critical interface, the Pelican-D LW enables solutions to enable our customers to systems. quick and easy system integration. enjoy day/night visibility capabilities Cyber security is a strategic sector Main features include a high frame rate in every application and under all and core competency for IAI. The (360HZ at full window), a camera-link environmental conditions. India is one of company is developing cyber solutions interface, and a bi-directional scan. the most important markets for us. We and unique solutions for intelligence, The VOx Imager is a low SWaP (Size, are working to bring our manufacturing, protection, monitoring, identification Weight and Power) uncooled video support, and maintenance capabilities and accessibility. These advanced core for military applications. It can be to India, in collaboration with local capabilities are possible due to the integrated with a variety of electro-optic companies and the Indian establishment." unique technologies developed by IAI’s systems, including thermal weapon research, development and excellence sights, hand-held thermal imaging centers, offering IAI's customers a devices, enhanced night vision wide range of capabilities for handling systems for armoured vehicles with evolving and ever growing cyber and MBTs, and small UAVs. threats. IAI operates four cyber research The VOxI is a 1-inch cube IR and development centres – one in module, weighing less than , one in Switzerland, and two 43 grammes, with a power in Israel – the most recent of which consumption requirement of less was opened in the city of Beer Sheba. than 1 Watt. The VOxI integrates IAI leads the Israel Cyber Company SCD's advanced, highly sensitive Consortium (IC3) which offers end-to- Bird 640\17 micron detector with end solutions for national cyber systems ceramic packaging, enabling and is comprised of leading Israel cyber long-range human target companies. recognition with small optics. Joseph Weiss, president and CEO of The Cardinal 640 is a SWIR (Short IAI, said: “Cyber is an area that generates Wave Infra-Red) detector for long- interest worldwide. IAI brings to the range surveillance and observation table cutting edge innovation, extensive experience from multiple business areas, a wide partner network, and broad know how and concepts of operation. This allows IAI to offer our customers a broad umbrella to deal with the numerous challenges they face in the cyber arena.”

26 DRDO gains success in Advanced Artillery Gun System

ndia’s Defence Research and firing capability in direct fire mode. System to meet the aspiration of Make in Development Organisation (DRDO) The development trajectory of ATAGS India initiative in defence sector. Ihas successfully conducted the proof aims at establishing indigenous critical DRDO is committed to develop and field firing of Armament system for 155mm defence manufacturing technologies ATAGS in the shortest timeframe with x 52 calibre Advanced Towed Artillery with the active participation of Ordnance active participation by leading industries Gun System (ATAGS) during the technical Factories, DPSUs and Private industries to meet the requirement of Indian Army. trials conducted recently at Proof & including Bharat Forge Limited, The first fully integrated gun system will Experimental Establishment (PXE), Tata Power Strategic Engineering be ready for user trials by early 2017. Balasore. Division and Mahindra Defence Naval ATAGS is fully indigenous towed artillery gun system project undertaken in mission mode by DRDO as a part of artillery modernization programme 155 mm x 52 Calibre Advanced of Indian Army. Armament Research & Towed Artillery Gun system in firing Development Establishment (ARDE), mode Pune, is the nodal laboratory of DRDO for design and development of ATAGS along with other DRDO laboratories. The Armament system of ATAGS mainly comprise barrel, breech mechanism, muzzle brake and recoil mechanism to fire 155mm calibre ammunitions held by Indian Army with a longer range, accuracy and precision and provides greater fire power. ATAGS is configured with all electric drive to ensure maintenance free and reliable operation over a longer period of time. It will have a firing range of 40 Kms with advanced features in terms of high mobility, quick deployability, auxiliary power mode, advanced communication system, automatic command and control system with night

27 Elbit Systems Launches SPECTROXR

and fully digital sensors Near Infrared-VNIR, SWIR-Shortwave (Medium Wavelength Infrared - Infrared), auto image enhancement, MWIR, Visible and Near Infrared augmented reality, multi-layered pictures - VNIR and Shortwave Infrared – and geo-location as a working method SWIR) and lasers with a very high to reduce operator workload. This unique level of stabilization, providing combination of characteristics, along with users with high performance advanced mission capabilities, makes it in adverse weather conditions. suitable for missions such as surveillance, The modular design enables targeting and fire control as well as search users to select the configuration and rescue. best suited their needs, both in terms of performance and cost. Elbit Systems has fully leveraged the in-house capabilities of sensors, lasers The system can be installed on and system technologies to enable a variety of platforms including: maximum performance within a small rotary and fixed-wing airborne and lightweight envelope, implementing platforms, aerostats, naval the most cost effective production and vessels and land applications. A quality control processes. SPECTROXR was wide variety of command and designed based on Elbit Systems’ 20 year control interfaces enable simple legacy in developing EO payloads such as integration of the SPECTROXR the AMPS strategic payload, the CoMPASS with various systems onboard family, with more than 1,000 systems in the easy, such as mission operational use around the world today. lbit Systems launched the computers, radar, data-links and helmet- SPECTROTMXR (Extra Range), the mounted tracking systems. Inherent Elatest and most advanced electro- in the SPECTROXR optic payload developed for Intelligence, system are additional Surveillance, Target Acquisition and features such as a Reconnaissance (ISTAR) missions, at the GPS, DVR (Digital recently held Farnborough Airshow 2016. Video Recording( and moving map that SPECTROXR is an ultra-long-range, can provide a cost day/night, multi-spectral electro- effective avionics optical ISTAR system that provides 20 upgrade with minimal payload performance in a 15 payload. space, weight and The heart of the system is a large multi- integration efforts. spectral imaging system that combines SPECTROXR multiple cameras into one, allowing it implements image to significantly improve performance fusion (MWIR- without increasing size and weight. Medium Wavelength SPECTROXR implements up to 9 advanced Infrared, Visible &

28 Leonardo-Finmeccanica to develop PROSPECT for ESA on Moon probe

eonardo-Finmeccanica signed a contract with the Chief Executive Officer and General Manager of Leonardo. “Our European Space Agency (ESA) at the recently held Space technologies allow us to explore the Universe on board LFarnborough Airshow 2016 to develop the system that will spacecraft such as Rosetta, Juno, JUICE and Cassini, monitor allow Europe to analyse the Moon’s subsoil. The project will see the environment through the Copernicus programme, study Leonardo engaged for two years in the design, construction and gravitational waves with the LISA Pathfinder and supply services

testing of the PROSPECT prototype, a key European contribution that benefit all via the Galileo constellation. We are aboard the to Luna-Resurs, a partnership between ESA and Roscosmos ExoMars mission searching for traces of life on Mars and we (the Russian Space Agency) with support from the Italian and are eager to take this opportunity to explore the secrets of the UK Space Agencies. Luna-Resurs should land a probe weighing Moon,” he added. approximately one tonne on the Moon in 2021, to search for “Delivery of PROSPECT on the lunar surface at the beginning water and raw materials that might be used for building a future of the next decade will demonstrate ESA’s strong interest permanent base. to become an important player in an international effort to PROSPECT (Package for Resource Observation, in-Situ analysis sustainably explore the and Prospecting for Exploration Commercial exploitation and surface of the Moon,” said David Parker, ESA Director for Human Transportation) is an automatic laboratory consisting of a robotic and Robotic Exploration. “Moon is one of the destinations of the drill and a suite of scientific instruments. Leonardo will develop exciting ESA space exploration strategy and programme which PROSPECT in collaboration with the UK’s Open University. The calls for sustained human operations in Low Earth Orbit and an system will drill down into the Moon’s soil to depths of up to integrated approach for exploring Moon and Mars. Assessing the two metres, taking material samples and distributing them feasibility of economically exploiting local resources is critical for to the scientific instruments aboard the probe for analysis. It sustaining future human exploration endeavours and PROSPECT will be tested by Leonardo in an environment that mimics the will deliver critical knowledge in this regard”. environment of the Moon’s South Pole where it will operate, in With a wide range of skills, from the development of hi-tech vacuum and at temperatures 170 degrees centigrade below zero. space equipment and sensors to the supply of satellite services, “This contract, which follows our provision of similar systems to the production of satellites and orbiting structures, Leonardo for the Rosetta and ExoMars missions, reinforces our global has a leading role in all the most significant international space leadership in Space drilling and sampling equipment. These missions. are cutting-edge instruments that fully express the ingenuity that Leonardo, our new name, stands for,” said Mauro Moretti,

29 IAI and Honeywell to develop Sense- and-Avoid Capability for MALE UAS

civilian airspace,” said Joseph Weiss, president and CEO, Israel Aerospace Industries. “This collaboration demonstrates IAI’s groundbreaking capabilities, innovation and technological development once again. We’re excited to work with Honeywell, a leading company in avionics and safety systems, and view this effort as the first step in a series of cooperative efforts.” "Sense-and-avoid solutions do not currently exist for UASs to operate in a national civilian airspace. With more manned and unmanned vehicles entering that airspace, the need for sense- and-avoid grows,” said Carey Smith, president, Defense and Space, Honeywell Aerospace. “We have decades of experience helping manned aircraft safely operate around the world, and now we’re applying that knowledge and inventing new technologies and solutions to create a safer airspace. With decades of experience providing the aerospace industry with countless products focused on safety, Honeywell will leverage srael Aerospace Industries (IAI) and Honeywell will jointly this and government agencies to work with IAI and provide a develop a sense-and-avoid (SAA) capability for IAI's Heron significant step forward in next-generation avionics solutions Ifamily of Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS). Approved for that address the need for sense-and-avoid.” funding from the Binational Industrial Research and Development The BIRD Foundation was established by the United States and (BIRD) Foundation, the system will be demonstrated for the first Israel governments in 1977 to stimulate promote and support time on the Heron medium-altitude, long-endurance (MALE) UAS industrial research and development of mutual benefit to both platform in 2018. BIRD selected the team following a competitive countries. review process that evaluated projects from many companies. IAI's Heron Medium Altitude Long Endurance (MALE) UAS The joint project will provide a SAA capability on a Heron is fully operational with 20 customers worldwide. With over MALE. The system concept includes Honeywell-developed 200,000 accumulated flight hours, Heron has a proven record in software, algorithms, hardware and the fusion of inputs military, security and civilian applications. It has been granted from various sensors embedded in a single prototype box or airworthiness approvals and certificates by military and civilian line-replaceable unit (LRU) and IAI's separation and collision aviation authorities worldwide. avoidance manoeuvring logic and Ground Control Station (GCS) pilot interface. The LRU will be flight tested onboard IAI's Heron UAV for the first time through the BIRD programme. It will show improved situational awareness through the tracking of other nearby aircraft, allowing the UAS collision avoidance manoeuvring and suggest alternate flight maneuvers, resulting in a safer airspace. The demonstrations and flight tests planned for mid-2018 will be conducted on the IAI Heron 1 UAS. The development work will be executed in Albuquerque, New Mexico; Minneapolis; and Redmond, Washington, as well as in Tel Aviv, Israel. Flight testing will take place in Israeli airspace. Both companies plan for the full sense-and-avoid solution to be integrated into the Heron family of MALE UAS. In the near term, the work will set the foundation for safe operation and integration of unmanned aircraft in civilian airspace and will contribute to policies and procedures allowing for certification of avionics and platform systems. With the introduction of UASs in the national airspace, Honeywell and IAI recognised the need for making the airspace safer. Honeywell’s development of a common sense-and- avoid system started years ago to meet this anticipated need, and the concept continues to be refined through flight test Carey Smith (left), President, Honeywell demonstrations. Aerospace (Defense and Space) with Joseph Weiss, “Developing a sense-and-avoid system for our Heron UAS President and CEO, Israel Aerospace Industries is a significant step forward in integrating MALE UASs into

30 TAS and Bell Helicopter SCHUNK’s Gripping Modules/ Magnetic Grippers to collaborate on

India Aviation Highest holding Tata Advanced Systems Limited (TASL) and Bell Helicopter, a Textron Inc. (NYSE: TXT) company have signed forces in small spaces an agreement to work together in support of India’s aviation and defense modernization initiatives with an emphasis on ‘Make in India’. Under this agreement TASL and Bell Helicopter will join forces to develop both commercial and government (including military) rotary wing markets in India in the Light Utility and Reconnaissance segments. The CHUNK, the competence leader low deadweight allows a high dynamic scope of this agreement is intended for clamping technology and for challenging applications. Since the to include potential production and Sgripping systems extends its grippers meet protection class IP52, they assembly capabilities, certain training series of digitally controllable magnetic are the ideal solution for flexible loading and maintenance, repair and overhaul grippers with the compact SCHUNK of machine tools. The magnets are requirements, as well as research EGM-M monopole gripper. The smallest available in pole sizes 30, 50,and 70 mm. and development programs and SCHUNK gripper so far(26 mm x 98 They can be easily equipped with pole technology sharing that will grow mm)is still precise and powerful and is extensions via thread and pin holes. industrial capabilities and result in suitable for handling parts weighing The individual holding forces of innovative “Make in India” solutions. up to 7 kg. Since its magnetic field every magnetic gripper depend on the “TASL’s alliance with Bell Helicopter reaches to the outer edge, no interfering workpiece surface quality, the material, is significant because of our shared contours will become a problem. The and the workpiece geometry. Under synergies; our defense manufacturing monopole grippers can be similarly ideal conditions, the EGM gripper has capabilities and focus on innovation used as suction cups, can be positioned gripping forces of 1.2 and 22,5 kN, is are well aligned with Bell Helicopter’s anywhere on the workpiece, and can designed for parts weighing a maximum core competence. This will build on the be flexibly combined with larger units. of 147 kg, and a material thickness partnerships that TASL already has in As all the SCHUNK EGM magnetic starting from 3.5 mm. For handling the rotorcraft market allowing it to offer grippers of this series, the monopole of thin sheets, the gripping force can a full range of products to potential grippers are working with energy- be reduced in eight stages with an customers. The collaboration, which efficient electro-permanent magnets. additional control unit. The magnetic is in line with the government’s ‘Make They do not require compressed air or gripper can be used in confined spaces in India’ initiative, holds potential not vacuum. Only a short current pulse for due to its compact dimensions. The only in the domestic market but, will 300 ms is required for actuation and maximum ambient temperature also strengthen India’s position in the deactivation. Since no energy supply amounts to 40° C, the activation or international market,” said S. Ramadorai, is required in activated condition, deactivation time amount to300 ms. Chairman of Tata Advanced Systems Ltd. the parts keep reliably gripped TASL is focused on providing even in the case of an emergency integrated solutions for Aerospace, stop or a sudden loss of power. Defense and Homeland Security. It The SCHUNK EGM-B bi-pole gripper has become a significant player in the wasdesigned for handling heavy and global aerospace market, becoming complex ferromagnetic parts. On option, the premier manufacturing partner they are available with one, two, or four for global OEMs. It has capabilities pole pairs in different arrangements. throughout the aerospace value Pole extensions allow them to be chain from design to full aircraft adjusted to the individual handling assembly, and is well positioned in objects.Different workpieces can be other areas that include missiles, alternately handled by every SCHUNK , unmanned aerial systems, magnetic gripper and five sides of the command and control systems, workpiece are freely accessible.Their optronics and homeland security.

31 IAI delivers 10th F-35 Fighter Outer Wing Ship-set to Lockheed Martin

ockheed Martin and Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) F-35. IAI is currently investing in infrastructure and machinery to marked the delivery of the 10th F-35 Joint Strike Fighter manufacture the skins and other metallic parts in-house. LOuter Wing ship-set by IAI to Lockheed Martin at a IAI's LAHAV Division is renowned for its extensive experience ceremony at the Farnborough International Air Show. Attending and knowledge in producing wings for the F-16 and T-38 aircraft, the ceremony were Orlando Carvalho, Executive Vice President, as well as aero-structure assemblies for other aircraft and Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Company; Joshua Shani, Chief customers. Executive, Lockheed Martin Israel; George Standridge, Vice “Israel Aerospace Industries is a key supplier to the F-35 President, Strategy & Business Development, Lockheed Martin; supply chain – delivering a quality product, on schedule and Rafi Maor, IAI's Chairman of the Board; Joseph Weiss, president on cost – helping the F-35 enterprise deliver affordable security and CEO of IAI, and ShaulShahar, Executive Vice President and capabilities to all of our customers. Lockheed Martin greatly GM, IAI Military Aircraft Group. values our long-standing relationship with IAI and we look IAI has produced and delivered to Lockheed Martin 10 Outer forward to their continued performance on this programme,” Wing sets so far, and plans to deliver a total of 18 sets by the end said Orlando Carvalho, Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Executive of 2016. IAI is scheduled to produce a total of 811 pairs of F-35A Vice President. wings, with a potential value of over $2 billion by 2034. Joseph Weiss, IAI's President and CEO, said: "Our partnership Following execution of the initial contract in 2014, IAI with Lockheed Martin is strategic for IAI, and constitutes an inaugurated a state-of-the-art F-35 wing production line, acknowledgment and expression of faith by Lockheed Martin investing in the automated systems, advanced infrastructure and and the US government in IAI's capabilities as a global industry technologies necessary to meet the aircraft’s innovative design. leader. We are extremely proud to deliver the 10th wing set and The production line meets all of the customer's quality targets, believe that this cooperation will continue to be strengthened in including zero FOD (Foreign Objects Debris). The wings' upper the future." and lower skins are made of composite materials, unique to the Thales to modernise shooting simulators

Thales Deutschland has received an order from the which will be equipped with a dual boot system. Federal Office for Equipment, Information Technology and This system permits the use of existing simulator Utilisation of the Federal Armed Forces (BAAINBw) for the training scenarios as well as the new functionalities modernisation of all small arms/handheld antitank weapons of the modern Sagittarius Evolution software. shooting simulator training devices (AGSHP) in use with the The modernisation provides the technical basis for Federal Armed Forces. The order volume is approximately the networking of the stationary AGSHP simulation five million Euro and to be implemented by the end of 2017. systems with each other or with the mobile systems The contract covers the software regeneration of a to be newly procured in a further step. total of 185 shooting simulators of the type AGSHP

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Undoubtedly the biggest advantage of additive manufacturing is the enormous freedom with respect to the component geometry. Design engineers do not have to watch out for draft angles or undercuts, which allows them a high degree of design creativity. For exam-ple, the channels for power supply, signals or compressed air can be integrated directly in the grippers. Complex components that would require a great deal of cost and effort to implement using conventional methods are comparatively easy with the additive method. And even moving parts such as hinges can be manufactured as one piece. Direct generation of the components in the CAD system also significantly reduces the production time. The advantages of additive manufacturing with respect to time and costs are especially evident in the case of custom solutions produced in small quantities. The low weight of the polyamide modules also generates other effects: the lightweight components provide op-timal conditions for the reduction of cycle times and energy

34 gripper, top jaws and workpiece, can be downloaded in STL format for immediate use in the system design. The first version of the design tool, which went online in early 2015, includes top jaws for the SCHUNK PGN-plus 40 to 125 universal grippers, the SCHUNK MPG-plus 20 to 64 small component grippers, and the SCHUNK EGP 25 to 40 electric small component grippers. The attractively priced top jaws are manufactured within a matter of days of lightweight, wear-resistant polyamide 12, either in the colors white or black. For use in pharmaceutical and medical applications, top jaws are also available in FDA-approved polyamide 12. Since polyamides are resistant to chemicals and suitable for use with foods, they can also be used reliably in connection with aggressive media.

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“From numerous projects we know how much engineering design and production time is needed, especially for complex gripper fingers,” explains Ralf Steinmann, Business Unit Manager Gripping Systems at SCHUNK. “Depending on the component geometry, an ex-perienced design engineer needs from two to eight hours for one pair of fingers.” SCHUNK eGRIP should now reduce the time needed to about 15 minutes. The know-how and the software for design of the gripper fingers are one of the world’s leading pioneers in 3D printing, entirely from SCHUNK. A patent on the un-derlying with whom SCHUNK has concluded an exclusive process has been applied for. The actual additive contract. The two companies have invested about manufacturing is performed by Materialise GmbH, one year of development time, and a six-digit figure in the tool. The result is convincing: the design time for gripper fingers is reduced by up to 97%. The production and delivery time are reduced by up to 88 %. In addition, the finger price is reduced by up to 50%. SCHUNK eGRIP is especially worthwhile in assembly systems requiring numerous grippers with different geometries. “In the case of a rotary table with 12 stations and 12 different pairs of fingers, savings between €2,400 and €9,600 are possible, depending on the geometry and individ-ual requirements,” Ralf Steinmann explains. Over a period of six months test customers, including experienced SCHUNK design engineers, tested the system thoroughly. On the ba-sis of their feedback it was possible to further optimize the user interface, the intuitive op-eration and the logic of the program. The program flow is now structured so that the user is guided step-by-step through all required actions. Attractive terms additionally facilitate the introduction to the software. The experience with SCHUNK eGRIP is so promising that SCHUNK is already considering offering the design tool in multiple languages and expanding it to include additional gripper series.

35 Delhi Airport selects Rockwell Collins to provide first mobile common use check-in platform in India

assengers using Indira Gandhi airports for both quality and customer International Airport (IGI) in New service.” PDelhi can now check in faster due Since 2009, IGI has benefitted from to the implementation of Rockwell Collins’ the implementation of Rockwell Collins’ new ARINC vMUSE™ mobile passenger ARINC airport solutions. In addition processing solution. IGI, India's busiest to ARINC vMUSE mobile, the airport airport and the largest in South Asia, is the has deployed ARINC vMUSE™, ARINC first airport to implement ARINC vMUSE, Providing the airport with a cost SelfServ™ Kiosks, ARINC VeriPax™ which gives airlines the ability to check in effective way to accommodate its rapid Passenger Reconciliation System and travelers wherever and whenever needed. growth without additional infrastructure. ARINC BagLink™ for baggage messaging “‘Passenger delight’ is a driving principle Enabling the airport to help airlines to facilitate passenger processing and that has helped shape our company, reduce queues during winter months reduce congestion. services, goals and all that we stand for when weather can cause irregular Rockwell Collins is a pioneer in the today,” said Jeewan Khulbe, Head of IT operations due to flight disruptions. development and deployment of at Delhi International Airport Ltd. “ARINC Providing a specialized check-in tool innovative aviation and high-integrity vMUSE mobile from Rockwell Collins is a that enables airlines to offer an added solutions for both commercial and way to improve the passenger experience level of service, like off airport check in or government applications. Our expertise and to provide our airports with cutting- seat upgrades, for elite passengers. in flight deck avionics, cabin electronics, edge solutions when traditional systems “IGI understands the value that these mission communications, simulation and are not enough.” new technologies will bring–especially training, and information management ARINC vMUSE mobile enables airline and improving operations,” said Paul Hickox, is delivered by a global workforce, and a ground handling agents to utilize a tablet- head of Airport System Sales for Rockwell service and support network that crosses based application to check in passengers Collins. “It is one of the many reasons IGI more than 150 countries. from anywhere in an airport. Key reasons has repeatedly been honored by industry IGI selected ARINC vMUSE mobile include: groups as one of the world’s leading

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38 Leonardo-BAE Gripping Systems Systems Pact to Compact mechatronic Support Avionics of UK Typhoon fleet module for flexible rotations

Following BAE Systems welcoming a 10-year partnership arrangement, expected to be worth €2.5Bn, with the Ministry of Defence (MOD) to support the UK Typhoon fleet (an initiative known as the Typhoon Total Availability Enterprise or TyTAN), Leonardo and BAE Systems are working together to include comprehensive avionics support as part of the service. Known as Joint Avionics Solution (JAS) and expected to be worth over €600M, the support arrangement will see Leonardo Airborne and Space Systems, working alongside BAE Systems to support the Typhoon’s avionics equipment for at least the next ten years. TyTAN will see the established European support model for the Typhoon reviewed, delivering improved support and cost savings for at least the next ten hen competing for the individual positions can be reliably fixed. years. A significant part of these savings highest speed, flexibility, The center hole allows feed-through will be reinvested in programmes aimed Wreliability, and efficiency in of cables, workpieces or the use of a at further developing the capabilities of production automation, mechatronic camera. the Typhoon. Work at Leonardo will be modules are rapidly gaining in carried out in both the UK and Italy. importance. The SCHUNK ERS rotary Various application scenarios Leonardo’s total industrial participation modules were developed for rotary have been considered. in the Typhoon aircraft is about 36 movements in the medium load range. per cent of the programme value, The currently most compact mechatronic In order to feed compressed air or which includes a share of the aircraft’s rotary module on the market is available signals without hoses or cables through structure, avionics and on-board in unit size 170 with a height of 66 the module, the compact module is also electronics. The company contributes mm,achieving a nominal moment of 5 available in a version with pneumatic- more than 60 per cent of the avionics Nm,and a maximum moment of up to 17 electric feed-through,by using a slip for the Typhoon including leading the Nm. It is used for implementing flexible ring or air channel of up to eight electric consortia responsible for providing the and compact system concepts. signals (24 V DC/2 A), and a fluid with a aircraft’s radar and infrared search and The core piece is a torque motor with pres-sure of up to 8 bar. The SCHUNK ERS track sensors and its electronic warfare a hollow shaft. It is light-weight and is available in three sizes 135, 170 and 210 defensive aid suite. The company has compact, and is absolutely wear-free, with outside diameters of 135 to 210 mm. a track record in delivering cost-saving making it very reliable. It can endlessly The version with feed-through is support packages for Typhoon. Notably, turn up to 250 rpm to any intermediate available with outside diameters of Leonardo provides the maintenance position at a repeat accuracy of 0.01°. 170 and 210 mm. In order to achieve service for Italian Air Force Typhoons, In contrast to rotary modules with a the highest possible flexibility for the based on aircraft availability, which conventional servo motor, the ERS control and regulation strategy, it can has proven to be a great success. Here, has no additional interfering contours be actuated with the SCHUNK Motion support is provided directly at the Air and no elasticity.This long-lasting Controller ECM (48 V version) or a Force’s Typhoon base of operations module from SCHUNK, the competence common standard. through the Avionic Maintenance Center leader for clamping technology and Every unit size is also available as a dust (CMA). The CMA model’s guaranteed gripping systems convinces with high and splash-proof IP 54 version. Supply turnaround time has ensured a high level acceleration, swiveling speed, and and actuation of all the ERS rotary of service readiness for the Typhoon precision. On request, an integrated modules is carried out by a standard since 2009, as well as reduced costs. The pneumatic holding brake ensures that plug (M9/M17). company is preparing to roll out this successful model more widely to other platforms with which it is involved.

39 R.V. Deshpande, Karnataka Minister for Large and Medium Industries inaugurating the 3rd Aerospace and Defence Manufacturing Show at HAL Convention Centre. Dominic McAllister, British Deputy High Commissioner, Bengaluru, Sunny Jerome, Managing Editor ,Aeromag Asia, Padma Vibhushan Dr. V.K. Aatre, Former Scientific Adviser to Defence Minister, Director General of Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) and Secretary Defence Research, Dr. C.G. Krishnadas Nair, President, Society of Indian Aerospace Technologies , Wg.Cmdr.Venu Gopal Menon (Retd), D.R. Subramanyam also seen. ADMS 2016: A Grand Success

he Aerospace and Defence Centre, Old Airport Road, Bangalore, was at the trade exhibition and more than 450 Manufacturing Show – ADMS attended by some of the biggest and delegates participated in the business T2016, organised by Aeromag Asia the best global aerospace and defence sessions. ADMS, in its third Edition this in association with the Society of Indian companies. Over 42 companies, including year, has created an ideal platform for Aerospace Technologies and Industries HAL, Mahindra Aerospace, Alpha Design the suppliers consisting of MSMEs to (SIATI), on July 1-2 at HAL Convention Technologies etc, exhibited their products interact and showcase their products and

Mr. Uma Maheswar Mr. Sujith Panth Mr. Prashanth Rajanna Dr. C.G. Krishnadas Nair Mr. Chetan Anand

40 R.V. Deshpande, Karnataka Minister for Large and Medium Industries inaugurating the ADMS Exhibition. Dominic McAllister, British Deputy High Commissioner, Bengaluru, Sunny Jerome, Managing Editor ,Aeromag Asia, Padma Vibhushan Dr. V.K. Aatre, Former Scientific Adviser to Defence Minister, Dr. C.G. Krishnadas Nair, President, SIATI, Former MLA, Ivan Nigli also seen.

Mr. V. Balakrishnan Air Marshal P.R.Sharma (Retd) Mr. K. P. Mohanakrishnan Mr. Kiran Divekar Mr. K Venkata Subramanian

capabilities to the buyers represented C.G. Krishnadas Nair, former Chairman Director, LCA, K. P. Mohanakrishnan, by original equipment manufacturers, of Hindustan Aeronautics, and founder Mahindra Aerospace; Amar Kulkarni,Vice Defence Public Sector undertakings and of the Society of Indian Aerospace President, PolyWorks Software India; Research & Development organisations. Technologies; and Former MLA Ivan Joe Ajay A, Industry Account Manager- R.V. Deshpande, Karnataka Minister Nigli were among the high dignitaries Aerospace, EOS GmbH India Branch Office for Large and Medium Industries and who addressed the inaugural session. ( Electro Optical Systems); Kiran Divekar, Tourism, Dominic McAllister, British Sunny Jerome, Managing Editor Senior Manager, Dassault Systemes Deputy High Commissioner, Bengaluru, ,Aeromag welcomed the gathering India Pvt. Limited; Subba Rao from Padma Vibhushan Dr. V.K. Aatre, former and Wg.Cdr. Venugopal Menon TAML; V. Balakrishnan, former Executive Scientific Adviser to Defence Minister, (Retd) proposed vote of thanks. Director, HAL Engine Division; T. Mohan Director General of Defence Research A. Selvaraj, GM, Indigenisation, HAL; Rao, Chairman, BAeC; Sanjeev Kumar and Development Organisation (DRDO) Air Marshal P.R. Sharma (Retd), Safran Jha, Additional Director (Propulsion), and Secretary Defence Research, Dr. Group; Dr. Kota Harinarayana, former CEMILAC; Kamesh Goyal, Group Director

41 Mr. Amar Kulkarni Mr. Jermias Mr. A. Selvaraj Mr. Dhiraj Mathur Mr. Anupam Gupta

(Aircraft, CEMILAC); S. Karthikeyan, manufacturing industry in the country. a prime opportunity for the Indian Director(systems)CEMILAC Anupam ADMS is aimed at supporting the industry to enhance their capability Gupta, Robert Bosch; Uma Maheswar, national campaign for increasing the by achieving new technologies and GE Aviation; and D.R. Subramanyam, manufacturing capability of Indian facilities, so that they will be well- Managing Director SLN Technologies, defence and aerospace companies equipped to meet the demand of were among the prominent delegates for reducing the imports and making the Industry and also strike strategic and resource persons who spoke at the country self-reliant in Defence. In partnerships with various defence the business sessions of ADMS 2006. order to enhance the manufacturing programmes both in India and abroad. Representatives from Defence capabilities of the Indian Defence and ADMS is an ideal platform for PSUs, Defence and Civil Aviation Aerospace Manufacturing Industry, the meeting and sharing the Indian Ministry, DRDO, Private Industry, State government has announced various industries capabilities and expectations, governments, certifying authorities incentives under the new Make in updating technologies and exploring and Armed forces took part and India programme. Defence spending opportunities in the ever evolving interacted in the two-day event of the country is growing every year Defence and Aerospace arena. envisaged for creating a vibrant with new programmes and this is

Mr. T. Mohan Rao Mr. Naresh Palta Mr. Sanjeev Kumar Jha Mr. D.R. Subramanyam Mr. Kamesh Ghoyal

Mr. Joe Ajay A Mr.Subba Rao Mr. S. Karthikeyan Wg.Cmdr.Venu Gopal Menon

42 Exponential Boom in Aerospace Cluster Karnataka has been built over a legacy of 75years and it is unbeatable. If the Mysore Maharaja Jayachamarajendra Wadiyar was magnanimous in granting 700 acres of land absolutely free to Hindustan Aircraft Company, as HAL was initially called, and thus heralding the beginning of aerospace industry in the country, successive state governments have had the foresight to give prominence to this sector which is of strategic importance to our nation. Karnataka’s close association with aerospace and defence sector continues to this day. Recognising the strategic importance of this sector for our country, last year the Government of Karnataka granted 610 acres of land at Nittur, Gubbi Taluk, in Tumkuru district for HAL’s new helicopter project free of cost. The green field helicopter manufacturing project for Defence requirement has an investment of Rs5,000 crores and an employment opportunity for over 4,000 persons with more indirect employment and R.V. Deshpande scope for larger vendor development. Minister for Large and Medium Industries The state government will support the Govt of Karnataka project for speedy implementation. Over the years many other Defence Public Sector undertakings and R&D R.V. Deshpande, Karnataka Minister for institutes have come up in Karnataka which included DRDO, ADA,ADE, GTRE , Large and Medium Industries, pledges BEL and many others. These organisations together with the scientific, innovative to make Karnataka the Aerospace and entrepreneurial spirit of the people of the state created what is today regarded Defence hub for the entire Eastern world as one of the top technology clusters in the world. Today Karnataka is not only the IT capital of India, much before R.V. Deshpande, Karnataka Minister The Government has also announced the acronym IT was coined, Karnataka for Large and Medium Industries and the new national civil aviation policy. was and continues to be the aerospace Tourism, urged the Government of These initiatives will go a long way capital of India. The aerospace industry India and the aerospace industry to in bringing greater participation in is unique and it is highly capital intensive promote Karnataka as the Aerospace the defence sector, providing further with cyclical demand and having long and Defence hub, not only of South Asia fillip to the Make in India initiative. gestation periods. Because of hi-tech but of the entire Eastern world. He was Experience from across major talent and products which are emanating inaugurating the Third Aerospace and aerospace clusters of the world suggests from Karnataka, the state ranks amongst Defence Manufacturing Show (ADMS), that presence of an anchor company, the top four technology clusters in the organised jointly by the Society of Indian availability of a strong supplier base, world. More than 400 global MNCs Aerospace Technologies and Industries availability of a highly skilled talent pool established their R&D facilities here. (SIATI) and Aeromag Asia in Bengaluru. and the quality of the local government Karnataka is also the start-up Aerospace and Defence and the Civil support determine failure or success of capital of India with over 5,000 Aviation sectors are at an inflection point, an aerospace cluster. Globally, there have start-ups with a share of nearly 40 the minister said. Government of India been many failures and only two or three per cent of all start-ups in India. has once again relaxed FDI norms and success stories. Seattle in the United This combination will ensure that has introduced many reforms to propel States and Toulouse in France are classical futuristic technologies will merge from the sector through the new Defence success stories. I proudly say that for all Karnataka. Karnataka brought out a Start Procurement Policy announced recently. of Asia, there is Karnataka. This cluster in -up Policy for the first time in the country

43 the third highest FDI in the country since April 2000. More than 33 per cent of all the FDI (Rs74,753 crores) received by the State in the last 15 years, was received during the last two financial years alone (Rs25,308 crores). In the recently organised Invest Karnataka 2016, we had focused more on the issue of infrastructure. We are committed to providing top class infrastructure in Bengaluru and across the state. Facilities like road widening, construction of flyovers, pedestrian skywalks, multi-level car parking, grade separators, solid waste management plants etc. are being created through PPP mode. To ease the transportation problem, we have embarked on the Namma Metro Project. The link between Bayappanahalli and Nayandahalli is already operational. Contracts for two reaches of Phase II have been awarded and work will commence shortly. We expect Phase II to be completed Minister R.V. Deshpande visiting the exhibition by 2020. Project report for construction of elevated roads covering approximately 100 kms, at a cost of to create a world-class start-up ecosystem SMEs which form the backbone of the Rs18,000 crores, is being prepared in the state through strategic investment Aerospace and Defence industry. and action will be taken soon to and policy interventions leveraging the The Chief Minister of Karnataka has construct this project on PPP mode. robust innovation climate in Bengaluru. already announced funds for these Keeping an eye on the future, we have A Start-up Council has been constituted projects in last year’s budget. a proactive approach to making it easy under the chairmanship of the Chief On the civil aviation side, Bengaluru’s to do business in the state. Recently, Minister of Karnataka to oversee the Kempagowda International Airport is I had a meeting of stakeholders from implementation of the start-up policy. India’s third largest airport for passenger various departments to get an update While our Defence Public Sector and cargo movement, and Bengaluru has on the progress of reforms we initiated undertakings and private sectors the potential to be a major MRO hub. last year. We have received some have been instrumental in building The state government is willing more suggestions and my officers are the aerospace industry, the state to fully support such an initiative examining them constantly. A lot of work government is at the forefront of is every possible way. is happening behind the scene. However, creating necessary infrastructure for Government of Karnataka is also I urge all to have faith in the Government the best eco system for the industry. constantly and actively engaging with and support us, Deshpande said. It is estimated that out of all aircraft and key stakeholders to understand how While congratulating the Society of helicopters available with the country’s we can further improve governance to Indian Aerospace Technologies and Defence Services, 67 per cent originate make it easier to conduct business in the Industries (SIATI) celebrating its Silver from Karnataka. This is the matter of great state. ‘Invest Karnataka’, a new company Jubilee year, and the Aeromag Asia in pride for anyone who is based in this state. is being formed to promote ‘Brand its 10th anniversary, the minister said Among the 2,300 suppliers of HAL, 1,600 Karnataka’ across the globe, which would both these organisations have been are Karnataka-based, that is 70 per cent involve the best brains in the government doing an excellent job in promoting the of the suppliers of HAL. We were the first and private sector to jointly project and interests of the sector in our country. and the only state in India to introduce promote investments in to the state. ADMS, attended by the biggest and an Aerospace policy, which was drawn Government has simplified the the best global aerospace and defence up in consultation with the Aerospace procedure for permission to purchase companies, has created an ideal platform Task Force and the industry. We have agricultural land for industrial activities. for the suppliers consisting of MSMEs to developed a world class Aerospace park Concessions have been granted under interact and showcase their products and in Devanahalli which will house the the Karnataka Land Reforms Act and capabilities to the buyers represented Aerospace Common Finishing Facility Karnataka Land Revenue Act. by original equipment manufacturers, and Aerospace Technology Centre in In the last three years we have cleared Defence Public Sector undertakings partnership with National Aeronautical more than 1,550 projects worth in and Research & Development Laboratories and HAL. Both these excess of Rs 3 lakh crores. We continue organizations, the minister said. initiatives are aimed at supporting our to rank highly on FDI having received

44 Nurturing the Bond

In February UK Trade and Investment linked up with the Indian ACMA (Automotive Components Manufacturers’ Association) to take a delegation of 18 Indian companies to various centres of engineering excellence in the UK. This visit generated a lot of interest from both sides and several discussions are ongoing. McAllister spoke about the plans to showcase UK aerospace expertise at the CII Tech Summit in November in New Delhi, and a range of engagement activities for the Aero India show in Bengaluru early next year. Among the recent collaborations, he pointed out the India-UK focused engagement at the Farnborough International Air Show through their partners ADS and UKIBC. Why collaborate with the UK? Britain’s economy is fifth largest in the world, and we are well placed to face the future. The UK is the third largest investor in India, while India invests more in the UK than the rest of the European Union combined. Mr. Dominic McAllister The UK has a world class aerospace and defence supply chain involving about 3,000 companies and is the largest Dominic McAllister, British Deputy High in Europe and second only to the US globally. Half the world’s modern large Commissioner, Bengaluru, brings into aircraft fly on Airbus wings designed and manufactured in UK. India and the UK focus new initiatives for strengthening already work together on supply chain collaboration (mainly in aerospace), low the enduring relationship between carbon automotive technologies and a range of manufacturing technologies the UK and India and getting the best including automation and robotics. Prime Minister Narendra Modi has said out of the ‘unbeatable combination’ that the UK and India are “an unbeatable combination.” At the Deputy High Commission we are tasked with delivering this partnership, but we don’t do this s India is looking to nurture, technologies are developed in-country alone. Our successes are built through incubate, fund, commercialise as part of the ‘Make in India’ initiative. working with you, McAllister said. Aand scale innovations, significant But India is still at a growing stage. In While thanking SIATI for the opportunity partnership opportunities are being this context, we need to look at ways to address this major conference for the opened up in a big way for Indian and to further strengthen the enduring aero and defence sector, in which speakers UK companies, said Dominic McAllister, relationship between the UK and India. were to explore how new thinking in British Deputy High Commissioner, In 2016 UK Trade and Investment will technology will ensure more efficient and Bengaluru. He was speaking at be launching its Global Engineering effective processes and the importance the third edition of the Aerospace Technologies (GET) Together campaign of of manufacturing and design, the Deputy and Defence Manufacturing Show which aerospace is a major component. High Commissioner cited the presentation (ADMS), held recently in Bengaluru. The campaign will focus on ‘Growing to be made by Kishore Jayaraman, Country India is moving from a model in which Aerospace Together’ in sales, supply Head of Rolls-Royce, about how Rolls- foreign technologies are adapted and chain, training, and maintenance Royce and the UK are at the forefront of manufactured here, to a scenario where repair and overhaul (MRO). cutting-edge aerospace technologies.

45 Ascent to Powerhouses

aircraft design programme is virtually stillborn. We haven’t brought out a commercially viable civilian aircraft of our own design yet. We have been talking about Regional Transport Aircraft for nearly a decade. We have come that close to starting a special purpose vehicle for the design of Regional Transport Aircraft, but for some reason we are still lagging behind. We hear about a new civil aviation policy. While civil aviation is growing, we still have a several hurdles. We sell approximately 65 million air tickets a year for a population of 1.2 billion; while a small island with a population of 5 million would sell 25 million flight tickets. US sells 700 million tickets for one third of its population. Many of our civil aircraft are still sent abroad for maintenance, repair and upgrading. We have started building Dr. V.K.Aatre excellent airports, like the ones in Bangalore, Delhi and Hyderabad, but for a country like India, the number of Padma Vibhushan Dr. Vasudev Kalkunte airports is very low; aerial connectivity to the various parts of India has to grow. Aatre, former Scientific Adviser to Defence For a country to develop high technology, first and foremost we Minister, Director General of Defence must build outstanding academic institutions. That is the way technology Research and Development Organisation gets seeded, that is where future technologies get planned, where future (DRDO) and Secretary Defence Research, technologists get trained. We have to build the kind of academic institutions calls for accelerated changes to reach which can generate the symbiotic relations that can create something like the peak of high-end technologies the Silicon Valley. We should be more proud of our academic institutions rather than our R&D institutions. India needs to take a long hard look at powerhouse in most of the technologies, As India strives to become an economic why it drags its feet from making a final especially high-end technologies. power, primarily it has to become a leap towards becoming an aeronautics There are several reasons for that. One knowledge power. The hub of this powerhouse, said Dr. V.K. Aatre, former of them is that our investment, both knowledge is science and technology. Scientific Adviser to Indian Defence in terms of finance and manpower, is Because finally it is technology, especially Minister, Director General of Defence sub-critical. We put in enough seed science driven technology that produces Research and Development Organisation money to start the technology, and we wealth for a country. For this, the country (DRDO) and Secretary Defence Research, bring the technology to a certain level, must learn to do what I often call three while addressing the inaugural session but somehow don’t pursue it, further ‘I’s - Invent, innovate and industrialise. of the third edition of the Aerospace to become a powerhouse. Powerhouse Among various technologies, I and Defence Manufacturing Show doesn’t mean 100 per cent self-sufficient; consider aeronautical technology as (ADMS), held recently in Bengaluru. no country is 100 per cent self-sufficient the most important one as it virtually We have to do lot more than what we in technology, but it should become encompasses various technologies have done to be called a country where 100 per cent self-reliant in technology. like material science, structures, Aeronautical technology is at the peak. While we have designed a few combat electronics, guidance and navigation, We have to admit that India is not a aircraft and helicopters, our civilian automation, software engineering, etc.

46 Recalling how the Light Combat Aircraft crowd; it’s a brand name, it’s a (LCA), Tejas, designed and developed power house. Our pharmaceutical by Aeronautical Development Agency industries sector is a matter of (ADA) and produced by Hindustan envy all over the world. Yet do we Aeronautics Limited (HAL), which is classify India as a fully industrialised being inducted into the 45 Squadron manufacturing country? Not yet. of the Indian Air Force, took off for the But we are on the right track. The first time on January 4, 2001 for the Federal Government is earnestly Aero India Show, and the behind the talking about development, scene drama and fierce argument that prosperity, Make in India etc. Make he had with Dr. Kota Harinarayana, the in India is not just manufacturing Programme Director (LCA) at ADA, and in India, it is designing in India, Air Marshal P. Rajkumar for the daring owing the control of the product, feat, Dr. Aatre hailed the success of the owing the intellectual property LCA, which has done over 3,200 hours of the product. When I launched of flight since without a single distress the first program designing a sonar is rather insufficient. We must accelerate either in the sky or on the ground. The for nuclear submarine, everything the changes. In the present scenario you LCA is a unique achievement. One may was embargo. I couldn’t even get a have to do all the running you can if you argue that having flown it in January 2001 proper A to D converter, multipliers, want to retain the place you are in, and why did we need 15 years to be inducted ceramic crystals, but the embargo if you want to reach somewhere else, into the Air Force; perhaps we could have was used as an opportunity. you have to run at least twice as fast. reduced the time frame by about five Several things got done in India We don’t have infinite amount of time, years. On the day we first flew the aircraft, when super computers were denied. we have spent already 70 years not we signed a contract with HAL for eight Today we have an entry into MTCR. building the kind of an eco-system, or prototypes within five minutes of the It means, those things which are industry scenario that India should and landing of the aircraft, Dr. Aatre said. denied to India, either components or could with the super amount of talent we We are gathered here at the hub of devices or systems, today theoretically have. We must accelerate. We must look the aerospace technology in India. The on paper are opened to India. at what policy changes are necessary. Department of Space has scored great I only hope you don’t go and stop India has a will to survive. success, having launched 20 satellites. importing systems because they are Irrespective of what happens to We are building several UAVs. We easily available to India, developing the world in all these economic have built massive electronic warfare them is much harder work. I also hope difficulties, India will not collapse. systems in DRDO. 30 years back when the now the systems are cleared for On the other hand India will never seem he built the first fully instrumental ocean India, other countries will not stop giving to cross the knee of the exponential going ship in India for marine research, us components and devices without curve to accelerate the growth. Whereas everybody thought that he was foolish which we cannot build technology. countries like China and perhaps US to do so, but the ship is still functioning India really doesn’t have an electronic have the will power from the will to in full steam, Dr. Aatre recollected. components and devices industry at all. survival, several steps to will success, We have designed and manufactured We are totally dependent on imports. We will to win, will to productionalise. some good sub-systems which are brain system designers; probably very Besides technological changes, are hallmarked in the world. Our good system integrators, but we are not India must change sociologically industries have done extremely well. components device manufacturers. So I too. There are lot of things to be Manufacturing is growing and India is hope we don’t say that now everything done to the societal end. a sort of destination for many of our is opened up, let’s start looking at license We can only do that if you have enough manufacturing industry. Ours is an production, and transfer of technology – money in India to distribute equitably to outstanding IT industry. It’s not just a which really doesn’t transfer technology all. We have maximum two decades to know-how but knows only how to do the do that. If you don’t do that India’s dream production. Changes are afoot in India, no of becoming a developed world power question about that. But the velocity of will just be that a dream, Dr. Aatre said. the changes in India in most of the fields

47 Sikorsky and Babcock Thales, Elettronica sign 10-Year support deal for S-92 Helicopter strengthen ties in ikorsky and Babcock Mission Critical Services Ltd signed a 10-year agreement providing Babcock’s S-92® helicopter Sfleet with extended support for its aftermarket material needs. Sikorsky’s Total Assurance Program provides Babcock continued aftermarket support to operate its S-92 fleet within a Electronic Warfare known budget, reducing the risk of unplanned costs. Babcock MCS Ltd is a division of Babcock International Group plc. Sikorsky is a Lockheed Martin Company (NYSE: LMT). hales and Elettronica have signed a Memorandum of The contract was signed in a ceremony at the 2016 Understanding (MoU) to strengthen their industrial Farnborough Air Show by Sikorsky Vice President for Strategy & Tand commercial operations and relations in the Business Development Nathalie Previte and Babcock MCS Chief aerospace and defence business. The aim of the agreement Operating Officer Andrea Cicero. is to explore joint initiatives and pursue growth business “We are pleased that Sikorsky is committed to improving opportunities in the Electronic Warfare (EW) segment. material availability to keep these aircraft flying, and we are “This MoU extends the area of our long-standing confident they will continue providing world-class support business relationship and both companies believe that it allowing us to deliver the critical services upon which our customers rely,” said Cicero. “We have worked collaboratively with Babcock MCS on a number of points over the past two years,” said Previte. “This agreement is the result of a collaborative effort to expand our support presence and meet Babcock’s fleet requirements for improved operational readiness for their critical missions in both the Northern and Southern hemispheres.” Sikorsky and Babcock have done business together since 1979. The Babcock fleet currently features more than 20 Sikorsky aircraft, operating in the North Sea, Western and Spain. Certified to meet the most stringent safety requirements around the world, the S-92 helicopter is one of the most successful helicopters in operation. Sikorsky, a world leader in helicopter design, manufacture and service, has delivered more than 275 S-92 helicopters worldwide. The global fleet recently surpassed one million flight hours. S-92 helicopters perform a variety of missions including offshore oil and gas personnel transport, search and rescue, and a variety of other transportation missions for head of state, utility and airline represents a fundamental step for growth in Europe and passengers. the International Market,” said Enzo Benigni, Chairman and CEO of ElettronicaSpA. The two companies are already leaders in aerospace and defence technology and this new collaboration will offer even more synergisms to customers worldwide, building the largest EW pole in Europe. Under this MoU Thales and Elettronica launched at Farnborough a new solution in airborne self-protection systems and will develop areas for larger cooperation in the EW segment. “The signature of this MoU strengthens cooperation between Thales and Elettronica which relies on successful partnerships in the last decades such as the French and Italian naval programmes Horizon, Fremm and the French Fighter Mirage 2000. This cooperation has allowed the French and Italian defense industry to excel in innovation” said Patrice Caine, Chairman and CEO of Thales.

48 Celebrating 50 Years Air Marshal Japan International NJS Dhillon AVSM Aerospace exhibition takes over as SASO WAC to be held in October

he Society of Japanese ShinMaywa Industries, Sumitomo Aerospace Companies (SJAC) Precision Products, Nabtesco, and Tand Tokyo Big Sight Inc. have Mitsubishi Electric. Several airlines announced the Japan International such as All Nippon Airways and Japan Aerospace Exhibition 2016 (JA 2016) to Airlines will also exhibit, as well as the be held from October 12 to 15, 2016, at Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency Tokyo Big Sight in Tokyo, Japan. (JAXA). Celebrating a 50-year milestone Overseas companies such as the since the very first Japan International Airbus Group, the Boeing Company, Aerospace Exhibition event in 1966, Arianespace, Bell Helicopter Textron, JA 2016 will be the largest ever held, Elbit Systems, Honeywell, Leonardo- with 637 companies and organisations Finmeccanica, Lockheed Martin, exhibiting at 1,176 booths in an Thales, and others will exhibit. Air Marshal NJS Dhillon AVSM exhibition hall nearly 31,000 m2 in size, Exhibiting at the US Pavilion will be located in Tokyo at the very heart of General Atomics, Pratt & Whitney, Air Marshal NJS Dhillon AVSM takes Asia’s economic activity. Raytheon, Rockwell Collins, Rolls over as Senior Air Staff Officer, Western From transformation of governmental Royce, and others. Air Command, from Air Marshal defence and space policies, revitalizing Japan’s Acquisition, Technology B Suresh AVSM VM, who assumes regional clusters, changes in the & Logistics Agency (ATLA), which appointment of Air Officer-in-Charge market, to market expectations of the was established in October 2015, is Personnel at Air Headquarters. aerospace industry, JA would convey scheduled to participate on a full scale. Air Marshal NJS Dhillon AVSM is a the very latest information from In addition to promoting international graduate of National Defence Academy, the aerospace industry, from both exchanges with defence officials of Defence Service Staff College, and Japanese and overseas companies and overseas countries, ATLA also plans National Defence College. He was organisations. to support other small and medium- commissioned as a fighter pilot in The event aims to promote trade sized Japanese exhibitor companies. In the Indian Air Force in Dec 81. He and information exchange among addition, a PR exhibition from Japan’s has over 3700 hours accident free the aerospace industry, as well as Air Self-Defence Force is also planned. flying to his credit including 3100 hrs promoting better public understanding Local governments and on all variants of MiG-21 aircraft. of the industry and stimulating interest organisations around Japan will be He topped the Fighter Strike Leader among young people. exhibiting in support of regional Course at TACDE and also served as Mitsubishi Heavy Industries and clusters and companies, including Directing Staff there as of Head of Mitsubishi Aircraft will have a booth to special cooperation from the Tokyo Training and Deputy Commandant. promote the MRJ, the first Japanese- Metropolitan Government. This He has commanded a MiG-21 Sqn made passenger airliner in half a exhibition area will be arranged in the and has been the Chief Operational century Exhibitors will include Fuji likeness of a map of Japan, and its aim Officer of a premier flying base. Heavy Industries, IHI, Kawasaki Heavy is to promote the exhibitors as well as In addition to Commanding an Industries, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, encouraging exhibition visitors. Operational fighter base, he also and Mitsubishi Aircraft, as well as KYB, Commanded a helicopter base in DR Congo as part of UN Peace Keeping Mission. He also held the appointment of Principal Director Air Defence at Air HQ and Assistant Chief of Air Staff (Inspection) at Air HQ. Prior to his present appointment, he was Air Defence Commander HQ SAC. He was awarded Ati Vishisht Seva Medal in 2013.

49 Flight Trials of E-Scan radar begin on Eurofighter Typhoon Jet

light trials of the E-Scan radar have became the aircraft’s eighth customer combat edge this brings to the platform begun following the successful earlier this year. in live flight trials. Combined with the Fcompletion of ground tests using Alan Barton, Delivery Director – Typhoon fighter’s large nose aperture and the a UK Eurofighter Typhoon test aircraft, Radar Programmes for BAE Systems, said: ability to move the radar antenna, the clearing the path towards full integration “Following the successful completion of Typhoon has a field of view of 200 of the radar. The ground tests were carried this ground testing phase, flight testing degrees and the flight tests will show the out on Instrumented Production Aircraft using IPA5 has now commenced, where discriminating advantages this will bring.” (IPA) 5 with the detection and tracking of we will prove in-flight what we have The E-Scan Radar equipment and airborne targets at significant range. Flight successfully demonstrated during the Weapons System capability will be tests began at BAE Systems’ site in Warton, ground tests. The industry teams across incrementally enhanced over the next Lancashire, where IPA5 undertook a flight Europe are working very collaboratively three years to enable the required of around one hour. A second test aircraft, to drive this key Typhoon capability capability (P3E Standard) to be available IPA8 based in Germany, was also set to programme successfully forward.” for the first deliveries to the Kuwait Air join the integration programme. Andrew Cowdery, Chairman of Force. The new radar, provided by the The trials are designed to ensure the Euroradar, said: “The Typhoon Captor-E Euroradar consortium, which is led by radar and weapons system reach the provides significantly more power than Leonardo-Finmeccanica, underpins the required capability in time for first most competing systems and we’re Typhoon’s current and future capability deliveries to the Kuwait Air Force, which looking forward to demonstrating the evolution.

50 Gene Cunningham, vice president, Global Sales, Defense, Space & Security; Gp. Capt. TR Ravi , Commanding officer 81 Squadron IAF; S. P. Shukla, group president, Aerospace & Defence Sector, and chairman, Mahindra Defence Systems; Air Marshal BS Dhanoa, Vice Chief of Air Staff, Indian Air Force and Pratyush Kumar, president, Boeing India inaugurat​​ ​ing the Boeing C-17 Simulation Training Center in Gurgaon on July 8. (Boeing photo) Boeing, Mahindra Defence Systems Open C-17 Training Center for IAF

irst training services contract operations and training and we believe future, support to aircraft and crews will awarded by India to Boeing; center this joint endeavor will help deliver be a critical element of our partnership to Fincorporates advanced simulation, the objectives of the government support the IAF’s tactical and operational courseware and computer-based training of India and the Indian Air Force of needs and to create a strong services Boeing and Mahindra Defence building capabilities indigenously.” infrastructure base in India,” said Tim Systems formally opened a center The C-17 training facility, which Noonan, vice president of Training in Gurgaon to provide C-17 training is located at the Flight Simulation Systems and Government Services. services to the Indian Air Force (IAF). Technique Centre in Gurgaon, will be a “C-17 operators from the IAF will benefit Once fully operational, the new center full-service location offering instruction to immensely from the full motion state- will be capable of conducting local aircrews that operate the 10 C-17 airlifters of-the-art simulator and associated and multi-site simulations for added that Boeing delivered to India in 2014. courseware and computer-based training realism and more robust training. The center features a complete training and provides a real world replication “The center, in partnership with solution for C-17 pilots and loadmasters of any possible training scenario.” Mahindra Defense, is another example with advanced simulation, courseware of the steps we are taking to contribute and computer-based training to Boeing is helping Indian partners to the building of a holistic aerospace practice the complete range of tasks build a strong aerospace industrial base ecosystem in support of Make in required for military airlift operations that is globally competitive. It is rapidly India,” said Pratyush Kumar, president, and humanitarian missions, along increasing its footprint and investing Boeing India. “This demonstrates with other scenarios such as aerial with companies that are helping our commitment to provide reliable refueling and emergency procedures. create the indigenous aerospace and support and services for our customers The facility includes weapons systems defense infrastructure and ecosystem throughout the lifecycle of a product.” and loadmaster station trainers that can envisioned through “Make in India.” In “We are delighted to partner with be employed individually or networked addition, the C-17 fleet has been a vital Boeing in this venture,” said S. P. Shukla, together to rehearse complete missions. part of the Indian Air Force strategic group president, Aerospace & Defence The simulator’s flight deck supports airlift capability which has successfully Sector, and chairman, Mahindra training with night vision goggles for conducted relief and humanitarian Defence Systems. “We have credible comprehensive mission training. missions domestically and internationally. expertise in this specialized area of “Boeing believes that in the coming

51 Foundation stone laid for Dr. Kalam Memorial

efence Minister Manohar Parrikar and Union Minister Dfor Urban Development Dr. Guruprasad and Information and Broadcasting M. Venkaiah Naidu jointly laid the Mohapatra foundation stone for the National Memorial Foundation commemorating AAI Chairman former President Dr. A.P.J Abdul Kalam at Peikarumbhu, Rameswaram, Tamil Nadu. They paid rich tributes to the Dr. Guruprasad Mohapatra, IAS Officer late President on his death anniversary. of Gujarat Cadre (1986 Batch) in the The Ministers also inaugurated the rank of Additional Secretary to the statue of Dr. Kalam. Minister of State Government of India, has taken charge for Road Transport, Highways and as Chairman, Airports Authority of India. Shipping Pon Radhakrishnan, Minister He has worked extensively in the of State for Defence Dr. Subhash power sector, urban development Ramrao Bhamre, Tamil Nadu Minister and industry, where he was involved for Labour Dr. Nilofer Kafeel, Minister in comprehensive reforms in the for Information Technology Dr. M. power sector and restructuring of the Manikandan and Member of Parliament, erstwhile Gujarat Electricity Board Ramanathapuram, A. Anwhar Raajhaa into several commercial entities. He took part in the ceremonies. A special has rich and varied experience in exhibition on the life of Dr. Kalam the chemicals and fertilizers sector, was inaugurated during the event. as he has worked as the Managing Director of Gujarat Alkalies and Chemicals Ltd. (GACL) and Managing Director of Gujarat Narmada Valley Fertilizers Company Limited (GNFC). He worked as a Municipal Commissioner in Surat from 1999 to 2002, during which he was actively involved in the process of converting Surat into one of the models of urban governance with its thrust on Solid Waste Management, quality infrastructure and sound financial management. He also worked as a Municipal Commissioner in Ahmedabad for more than 3 years, during which he was instrumental in developing such iconic projects such as Sabarmati Riverfront, BRTS, Kankaria Lakefront and Heritage Promotion.Prior to joining AAI, he worked as a Joint Defence Minister Shri Manohar Parrikar, Union Minister for Urban Development Secretary in the Department of and Information and Broadcasting, Shri M Venkaiah Naidu, Minister of State Commerce in Government of India. for Defence Dr. Subhash Ramrao Bhamre at the foundation stones

52 SIATI: Gateway to Indian Aerospace Business and Global Tie-ups

he Society of Indian Aerospace Technologies and Industries (SIATI) brings together various Tindustries, R&D and other organisations in the country engaged in the field of aerospace on a common platform to provide interaction among themselves as well as with overseas industries to enhance growth opportunities for all. Over the last two decades SIATI has become an important gateway to Indian Aerospace business and global co-operation for tie-up in R&D, Technology, Joint Ventures, Collaborations, Co-productions and information-exchange. Through its member industries the Society has made substantial progress on developing and manufacturing aerospace materials, components, equipments and systems and also information technology, enhanced design and testing solutions. exporting aerospace components and equipments. “We have contributed in the development of private Excellence in R&D and innovations by members industries to be partners in innovation and R&D with is recognised by bestowing ‘SIATI Awards for HAL, ISRO, DRDO, BEL and other DPSUs, NAL and other Excellence in Indigenous Development’. So far 168 R&D Labs. Many Indian Private Industries have also industries have been honoured with SIATI awards. become exporters of Indian made aerospace and defence The International Institute for Aerospace Engineering products to leading aerospace companies abroad,” and Management (IIAEM) was conceived by SIATI and said Dr.CG Krishnadas Nair, Honorary President, SIATI. established under the direction of a high level committee “A Defence Offset Policy came into existence in India with Dr. K. Kasturirangan, Member Planning Commission, due to our consistent efforts along with HAL. It is a as Chairman, and Dr. CG Krishnadas Nair, President, SIATI, as matter of great pride that we are always consulted for Co-Chairman and with members from aerospace industries modifications and improvements of the offset policy.” both public and private sector. The IIAEM offers specialised SIATI provided a gateway for international co-operation programs leading to graduate and post graduate degree through participation in Indian and overseas Air Shows, in Aerospace Engineering. A number of short courses (two exhibitions and seminars, exchange of industry delegations day, three day and the like) are regularly conducted for and B to B meetings in co-operation with aerospace working executives, engineers and technicians by IIAEM industry associations of other countries. The Society and SIATI, along with Jain University and with the support initiated the concept of ‘India Pavilion’ in the international of Indian Institute of Sciences (IISc), ISRO, NAL, HAL and Air Shows and led Indian delegations to these Air Shows. several other aerospace and aviation corporate houses. Awareness workshops and seminars are conducted As the Government of India announced the policy for every year on the business opportunities for the Indian skilling technicians and engineers for various industries SMEs and private sector based on the national aerospace under the National Skill Council, SIATI took the initiative and defence projects and also arising out of offset to form an Aerospace and Aviation Sector Skill Council opportunities. Training workshops on various subjects under the aegis of National Skill Development Corporation, like procedure for indigenisation, equipment required Government of India. The Council is registered as Section–8 to be indigenously developed, associated technologies, Company, with a governing council / board with Chairman certification requirements etc are also held regularly. HAL by designation as Chairperson, Honorary. President, Exhibitions are organised indicating the requirement SIATI, and Honorary President BCCI and representatives of the Indian Aerospace and Defence industries and of industries from major aerospace and aviation also spare parts requirement of the armed forces. organisations and the large number of supply chain SIATI ensures participation of its members in the Aero (component manufacturers, equipment manufacturers). India Air Shows and exhibitions held in Bangalore to SIATI has been Member of Civil Aviation Aeronautics showcase their capabilities. We have advocated to the Promotion Advisory Council (CAPAC), Ministry of Civil foreign OEMs and suppliers of equipments the need Aviation. It is a Member of the working group on defence for taking Indian SMEs and other private industries as equipment and aerospace chaired by Secretary (DP). industry partners. Many Indian industries are today SIATI is also a member of the Aerospace Task Force

53 under Ministry of Industries, Government of Karnataka. SIATI is managed and led by a Council which has The First Air Show in Bangalore was conducted by SIATI nominated members from HAL, ISRO, DRDO, CEMILAC, jointly with HAL / Aeronautical Society and private sector DGCA, and NAL and from Private Industries. in the year 1993. On that occasion the first Directory on Empowered committees from members are Indian Aerospace Industries, enlisting a number of SIATI constituted to specially address issues on subjects such members and their capabilities, was published. Subsequently, as offset and other Government policies, training and SIATI has been revising the Aerospace Directory from certification, international co-operation with aerospace time to time and distributing it during the airs hows for industries and aerospace industry associations in other creating greater awareness of our members’ capabilities. countries, software systems and engineering. A bimonthly Magazine ‘AEROMAG ASIA’ is published SIATI invites Indian and overseas industries engaged in in association with SIATI by Aerosun Media, wherein aerospace and defence manufacture, maintenance, R&D the activities of SIATI members are highlighted. and services to become members and work together Members’ achievements in development of to create and improve the eco-systems for growth. equipments are published in Aeromag, free of cost. Advanced Materials and High Productivity Cutting Tools at your doorsteps

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54 Farnborough International Airshow records $123.9bn deals

officials and international government representatives at the official opening ceremony with a fly past by the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter flanked by the Red Arrows. The halls remained busy throughout the week with footfalls averaging at 20,000 per day and high levels of networking and engagement with a host of briefings, seminars and company presentations. Over 6,000 young people took part in the STEM outreach programme of the Airshow, Futures Day. Star of the show was Tim Peake who opened proceeding in his first public appearance since returning from the ISS. Farnborough International Chief Executive Shaun Ormrod said: “The extreme weather brought us some additional challenges, but it doesn’t seem to have stopped our exhibitors and visitors doing business. The halls have been busy all week, which is really

arnborough International Airshow, the five-day global Faerospace trade event held recently in UK, recorded orders and options to the value of US$123.9 billion defying industry expectations. Farnborough International’s internal order tracker recorded a total of 856 aircraft valued at $93.98, 1,407 engines valued at $22.7 billion and a variety of other business deals totalling £7.2 billion. Notable deals included Virgin Atlantic concluding its purchase for 12 Airbus A350-1000 and the UK Government confirming the purchase of 50 Apache Helicopters and 9 Boeing P-8 Poseidon aircraft. Topping the order chart was AirAsia who signed up for 100 Airbus A380neos. The Airshow was opened jointly by UK Prime Minister David Cameron and MP and Virgin Atlantic boss Richard Branson who welcomed senior aerospace executives, military

55 encouraging for the supply chain taken a considerable amount of re- industry. With these orders adding to the bookings for the 2018 show. Boeing celebrates already large backlog, its looks like the The Meet-the-Buyer programme has aerospace industry is going to be busy gone well with over 1,700 meetings centennial with successful for some years to come.” taking place as has the military Commercial Director Amanda Stainer delegations and civil and commercial Farnborough Airshow said: “It’s been a really successful show delegations programme with for our exhibitors. Our marketing suite representation from over 60 countries.” Boeing [NYSE:BA] celebrated its has been busy and we have already centennial amid a highly successful 2016 Farnborough International Airshow that has seen multi-billion dollar orders and commitments across the company, including defence platforms, commercial airplanes and services agreements. “As the birthplace of British aviation, there are few better backdrops to celebrate the accomplishments and wonders of the aerospace industry and mark our centennial than the Farnborough Airshow,” said Boeing Chairman, President and CEO Dennis Muilenburg. “Throughout the show, we demonstrated and discussed our innovative and cost effective products and services and the tremendous value they provide our commercial and defence customers.” “The British government announced significant orders for Boeing defence equipment. At the same time we committed to doubling Boeing presence in the UK in line with the government’s Prosperity agenda and our global growth strategy for our second century. On the commercial side of the business, we were pleased at the confidence our customers displayed in our portfolio of airplanes and services with significant orders and other announcements,” Muilenburg said.

56 Kamal Bin Ahmed Mohamed, Bahrain Minister of Transportation and Telecommunications and Deputy Chairman of the Supreme Organising Committee of Bahrain International Air Show, Paul Everitt, CEO, ADS Group & Chairman, Farnborough International, Shaun Ormrod, CEO, Farnborough International, Yousif Mohamed Mahmoud, Head of Bahrain International Airshow Group, Amanda Stainer, Commercial Director, Farnborough International, after signing the MoU for the Bahrain Airshow 2018 during Farnborough Airshow. Farnborough International signs new consultancy contracts arnborough International’s Bahrain, to plan and organise the Director Amanda Stainer said: “The consultancy business has grown 2018 and 2020 Bahrain International aerospace supply chain is always looking Ffrom strength to strength with a Airshows with an option for two for new technological advancements string of agreements signed at this year’s further shows after that. that will enable it to complete orders Farnborough International Airshow. Farnborough International has quicker. Furthermore, the MRO sector is Farnborough International signed assisted Bahrain in the planning and set to grow with more and more aircraft an MoU with Chengdu Hi-Tech Zone organising of the Bahrain International coming online to satisfy the demand for and the EU Project Innovation Centre Airshow since 2010, with the 2016 show air travel. As such we are experiencing to develop the Sichuan International seeing orders of over US$9bn and a more enquiries from international event Airshow which is planned to take place date change to November 2018, to organisers and governments looking at the Chengdu’s new international accommodate the growing event. to explore the business opportunities airport in September 2019. Farnborough International Chief in their own geographic region”. Another MoU was signed with Executive Shaun Ormrod said: “We are Farnborough International is a MedyaCity to develop the Eurasia extremely pleased that our expertise subsidiary company of ADS, the Airshow in . Farnborough is being called-upon. As one of the trade organisation advancing UK International will be assisting the UK largest and oldest international Aerospace, Defence, Security and Turkish event organiser with the trade exhibitions and air displays we Space industries. It is made up of a planning and running of the show are well rehearsed on the planning team of industry experts focused on which will take place in April 2018. and execution of such events with delivering innovative, cost-effective A new contract was signed with strong relationships with the many events and maintaining the standing the Ministry Transportation and organisations that exhibit at the show.” of its shows and venue as world-class Telecommunications, Kingdom of Farnborough International Commercial in a competitive global industry.

57 GA-ASI Strengthens Commitment to Increased Cooperation with India Plans to Open Local Office, Enhance Country’s Maritime Security

eneral Atomics Aeronautical by working with the U.S. Government to reliable RPA systems, including Systems, Inc. (GA ASI), a leading provide the Indian Navy with persistent, Predator® A, Predator B/MQ-9 Reaper®, Gmanufacturer of Remotely operationally proven maritime domain Gray Eagle, the new Predator C Piloted Aircraft (RPA) systems, radars, awareness,” said Linden Blue, CEO, Avenger®, and Predator XP. and electro-optic and related mission GA-ASI. It also manufactures a variety of systems solutions, announced at The maritime environment in which state-of-the-art digital Ground Control Farnborough Airshow 2016, that it plans the Indian Navy operates is both vast Stations (GCS), including the next- to expand its presence in India and open and diverse. Unpredictable weather generation Advanced Cockpit GCS, an office in New Delhi by the end of the patterns over the Indian Ocean dictate and provides pilot training and support year. stringent performance requirements for services for RPA field operations. GA-ASI recognizes the importance of airborne surveillance systems. The Mission Systems business unit India and looks forward to working more General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, designs, manufactures, and integrates closely with the Indian Government Inc., an affiliate of General Atomics, the Lynx® Multi-mode Radar and from its new local office. The company delivers situational awareness by sophisticated Claw® sensor control plans to increase collaboration with providing remotely piloted aircraft and image analysis software into both India in the areas of maritime security systems, radars, and electro-optic and manned and remotely piloted aircraft. and maritime domain awareness, which related mission systems solutions for It also focuses on providing integrated are key missions for the Indian Ministry military and commercial applications sensor payloads and software for ISR of Defense and the Indian Navy. worldwide. The company’s Aircraft aircraft platforms and develops high “We are looking forward to continuing Systems business unit is a leading energy lasers, electro-optic sensors, and to enhance our cooperation with India designer and manufacturer of proven, meta-material antennas.

58 DPP to ensure corruption-free Defence deals: Parrikar

Manohar Parrikar Defence Minister

efence Minister Manohar Parrikar has asserted & Make (Indian)’ categories of capital acquisition over ‘Buy in Rajya Sabha, the Upper House of Indian (Global)’ category. Any Indian company, as defined in the DPP, DParliament, that the new Defence Procurement can participate in the procurement cases categorised as ‘Buy Procedure (DPP), which came into effect from April 1, (Indian-IDDM)’, ‘Buy (Indian)’ and ‘Buy and Make (Indian)’. 2016, incorporates provisions to ensure the highest In the financial year 2015-16, the Government has accorded degree of probity, public accountability, transparency, fair Acceptance of Necessity (AoN) for proposals worth completion and level playing field for capital procurement Rs45,900 crore approximately, in ‘Buy (Indian)’ and ‘Buy of defence equipment from Indian and foreign vendors. and Make (Indian)’ categories of capital acquisition. Some The DPP 2016 envisages signing of an Integrity Pact between of the major projects categorized under these categories the Government and the bidders for all capital procurement/ are Successor 1099 Air Defence Gun, Multi-Purpose schemes of Rs 20 crore and above. Earlier such pacts were Vessels, High Mobility Vehicles (HMV GS 6x6), Short Span required only for cases involving Rs 100 crore and above. DPP Bridges, Multi Spectral Camouflage Net (MSCN) etc. 2016 provides that a foreign vendor is required to disclose Some of the major policy initiatives taken by the Government full details of any such person, party, firm or institution to assist the domestic private sector towards acquisition of engaged by them for marketing of their equipment in India, indigenous technology or from other countries are as follows: either on a country specific basis or as a part of a global Indian companies are allowed for tie-ups with a foreign or regional arrangement. It also stipulates conditions for Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) for Transfer of appointment of agents. It further provides that the Seller Technology (ToT) under ‘Buy & Make (Indian)’ category. has to confirm and declare to the Buyer that it is the original Under ‘Buy & Make’ Category of Capital Acquisition, manufacturer of the stores contracted and that no agent the foreign vendor is required to transfer the has been engaged to influence or manipulate award of the Technology to Indian Production agency for indigenous contract, or indulge in corrupt and unethical practices. production of the items. Provisions have also been No case involving corruption in defence made to allow Foreign OEM to select Indian Production procurements undertaken during the last two agency of its choice for transfer of technology. years has come to light, the minister added. Defence Offset Guidelines provides for Transfer of Technology to Indian Companies as one of the Defence Projects through Private Sector eligible avenues for discharge of offsets. Defence capital acquisitions are carried out as per Defence Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) has Procurement Procedure (DPP) wherein emphasis has been issued Guidelines for Transfer of Technology which provides given to boost domestic defence industry by according higher for an institutional mechanism for transfer of technology preference to ‘Buy (Indian-IDDM)’, ‘Buy (Indian)’ and ‘Buy developed by DRDO to public and private sector industry.

59 (LR-SAM) and Medium Range Surface to Air Missile (MR-SAM), upgraded version of Barak Missile System, are being jointly developed / produced by Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) and IAI, Israel. LR-SAM: The Project has an estimated cost of Rs2,606.02 crore for which contract was signed on January 27, 2006. It has a range of 70 Km. Home on Target (HOT) test was conducted successfully in November 2014. HOT-2 test was conducted in Israel successfully on November 23, 2015. Two Operational Flight Trials (OFT) were conducted successfully from INS Kolkata on December 29 2015.

empanelled auditors once every year MR-SAM: The Project has an estimated Foreign investment above 49% is cost of Rs10,075.68 crore for which FDI in Defence Sectors permitted in cases wherever the proposal contract was signed on February 27, is likely to result in access to modern 2009. Built-to-specification (BTS) The Government has notified review technology or for other reasons to be has been finalized. Preliminary and of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) Policy recorded. Such proposals are considered Critical Design Reviews of the system on various sectors including defence. by Foreign Investment Promotion have been completed. DRDO has According to the revised guidelines, Board (FIPB) based on the security recently flight tested 3 MR-SAM foreign investment up to 49% is allowed clearance of Ministry of Home Affairs systems successfully at ITR Chandipur through automatic route and above and comments of Ministry of Defence. LR-SAM / MR-SAM can detect incoming 49% under Government route wherever In such cases, foreign investment is enemy aerial targets i.e. aircraft or it is likely to result in access to modern expected to bring in modern technology anti-ship missile over 100 km away and technology or for other reasons to be and production capability in the destroy them at range out to 70 km and recorded. The foreign investment in domestic defence production sector. thus provide the air defence capability defence sector is further subject to to the assets of . industrial licence under the Industries FDI in Naval Warship (Development & Regulation) Act, 1951. Building Industry Purchase of Howitzer Tanks The Government has notified defence Indian Navy has achieved considerable products list for the purpose of issuing lead in construction of indigenous The Defence Minister declared in Rajya Industrial License for manufacture naval warships. Warship building has Sabha that there is no such proposal of licensable items under the Act. matured in the country and various to purchase Howitzer Tanks. However, Foreign investment in defence types of warships viz. aircraft carrier, acceptance of Necessity (AoN) has industry sector is subject to industrial destroyers, stealth frigates, corvettes, been accorded for the procurement licensing. Licensing Committee in submarines and other minor war vessels of 145 x 155mm / 39 Calibre Ultra- Department of Industrial Policy and are being built in the country. Currently, Light Howitzers (ULH) from the USA Promotion (DIPP) takes into account all orders for warships and submarines under Foreign Military Sales (FMS) security clearance from the Ministry of for Indian Navy have been placed route. The procurement is being Home Affairs and views of the Ministry on Indian shipyards (i.e. on Defence resorted to in order to meet certain of Defence. The Licensed Defence PSU, PSU, and private shipyards). operational requirement of the Army. Companies are required to follow Foreign Investment up to 49% is detailed security guidelines applicable allowed through automatic route and Production of to them as per security instructions / above 49% under Government route, Tejas Aircraft architectures prescribed in ‘Security wherever it is likely to result in access to HAL has an installed capacity to Manual for Licensed Defence Industries’ modern technology or for other reasons produce eight Light Combat Aircraft available at www.ddpmod.gov.in to be recorded. So far, 36 FDI proposals – Tejas per annum. There is no fighter based on their categorization. The / Joint Ventures have been approved in aircraft project which is pending for Manual provides detailed guidelines defence industry sector for manufacture decades. Tejas aircraft will partially meet on physical security, materials security, of various licensable defence items, IAF’s requirement in Light Weight fighter documents security, information both in public and private sector. category, Minister Parikkar informed security etc. The companies are also the Upper House of Parliament. subjected to external security audit by Upgrading Barak Intelligence Agencies once in two years Missile System and cyber security audit by CERT-IN Long Range Surface to Air Missile

60 Leonardo Mode 5 IFF System to help JGSDF distinguish friend from Foe

eonardo-Finmeccanica will provide Lthe latest Identification Friend or Foe (IFF) technology for Japan Ground Self-Defence Force (JGSDF). The deal, MBDA demonstrates signed with a Japanese prime contractor, will see Leonardo supplying its SIT-422/5J interrogator for the JGSDF. Brimstone Missile An IFF system allows troops to distinguish between ‘friendly’ vehicles and potential threats by sending out live firing from an interrogation signal and verifying the responses received. In this context, Japan’s radars will be used to monitor the Apache Helicopter skies for aircraft and will use Leonardo’s SIT-422/5J to send out the ‘interrogation’ signal to see if the targets are affiliated BDA and Boeing have missiles instead of those with a warhead forces or possible foes. Leonardo is a successfully completed a series to confirm performance. The UK MOD’s global leader in IFF, providing equipment Mof physical trials and firings of trials objectives were met with missile for a number of ground and air-based Brimstone on the AH-64E attack helicopter telemetry being gathered, confirming platforms including the new Saab Gripen to confirm the feasibility of integrating the that the weapons separated with active E jet, which carries the company’s Mode- missile with the United Kingdom’s future fin control off the rails, with no tip-off 5 technology. Most recently, Leonardo Apache AH-64E fleet. These trials validate concerns. The data collected from these demonstrated a new Mode 5 ‘Reverse- a prior UK MOD study contract with MBDA missile firings will be used to enable future IFF’ capability with Italian Typhoon jets, and Boeing that confirmed integration optimisation of Brimstone for the AH-64E allowing the aircraft to conduct air-to- was expected to be low risk. capability. ground IFF scanning. Ian Malin nominated for Airline Economics Awards 2016 The programme was funded by a UK Whilst using the current Brimstone The company will partner with a Ministry of Defence (MOD) contract, capabilities, and with further prime contractor in Japan to deliver awarded to MBDA in September 2015. enhancements planned, an impressive the technology and will provide the It included a range of environmental range of unique capabilities have already necessary support to enable in-country an Malin, CEO of AJW Capital, and sensor compatibility trials, as been demonstrated. Dan Girardin, Boeing service-level maintenance of the has been nominated by industry well as functional and avionic trials to Flight Test Engineer, Mesa AZ, said: “The equipment. Ipeers in the ‘40 under 40’ Airline demonstrate new platform software mmW autonomous shot from a moving SIT-422/5J is latest-generation Economics Awards 2016. Subscribers and functionality implemented into the and banking platform against an off-axis technology developed for IFF and, as of Airline Economics and readers of platform and cockpit by Boeing. Boeing target with the missile hitting the MBT such, includes all modern modes and Aviation News Online were asked to performed the platform and cockpit turret ring was the most aggressive shot complies with the latest international nominate colleagues and peers aged software modifications and managed I have seen in my 30 years of the Apache standards. It includes a Selective below 40 years who they believed the trials programme at Mesa and Yuma, programme.” Identification Feature (SIF), Mode C, were deserving of recognition for their Arizona, using a leased United States Dai Morris, UK MOD’s Complex Weapons Mode S, Mode 4 and the new Mode 5. contribution to the aviation industry. Government AH-64E in just nine months. Senior Responsible Officer in FMC-WECA, Mode 5 is the most advanced military- Malin, who has been with the All this activity culminated in a number of welcomed the results saying, “UK MOD is only identification mode, which modifies Group since 2011, was one of those successful guided firings. working together with MBDA to develop and addresses known shortcomings of exceptional individuals to be These firings demonstrated thethe missile capability the British Army the legacy Mode 4 systems. awarded this special accolade. capability of the weapon to guide using requires. Notably, the SIT-422/5J interrogator Malin is responsible for the Brimstone’s Semi-Active Laser (SAL), Dual Brimstone is part of a family of system is based on ‘external crypto Group’s overall financial strategy, Mode SAL/millimetric wave (mmW) and capabilities, which in addition to the appliqué technology’, meaning that the planning, analysis and corporate fully autonomous mmW guidance modes. needs of the warfighter, will be aimed crypto element of the system (which The weapon releases were from hovering, at delivering wider benefits including provides secure encryption of the IFF moving and manoeuvring/banking pan-platform utility, stockpile resilience signal) is a separate unit that can be scenarios against Main Battle Tanks and and better overall value for money for removed and securely stored as needed. Pickup Truck targets. Defence”. This makes the system compliant with All of the firings utilised fully telemetered DoD-AIMS 04-900A option B.

61 Customer Case Study Aerospace

Antenna bracket for RUAG‘s Sentinel satellite - certified for use in outer space Facts

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In this the perfect possibility of achieving the necessary freedom Original design Optimized topology Redesigned antenna bracket stiffness and a minimum of Fundamental suitability and 62 Original Optimized Redesigned design lead time. design topology antenna bracket rigidity testing formed the Customer Case Study Aerospace

Antenna bracket for RUAG‘s Sentinel satellite - certified for use in outer space Facts

Challenge To develop an extremely lightweight and robust antenna For many people, talking of the infinite vastness of the universe conjures up stories of science bracket for Sentinel satellites.Short profile fiction, usually told by a Hollywood film studio. However, in real life, more than in any other area, RUAG is a Swiss technology it is arguably in space travel that a strong will and clear vision are vital for creating the necessary Solution group with global operations, technology and readying it for deployment in the cosmos. This was the challenge faced by Swiss Production of a component active in the fields of aero- technology group RUAG in the construction of its Sentinel satellite, designed for observing our using additive manufacturing, space, defense and security. which, by virtue of to its planet from on high. Even here, beyond the Earth‘s atmosphere, additive manufacturing is playing complex structures, fulfillsIts all customers are drawn from a key role. requirements of weight andboth civilian companies and stability. government agencies. Challenge mean that the flight will not be generally not possible. This also According to reports by the as smooth as you would expect explains why the authorization of Results • Intelligent: freedom of designAs a manufacturing service German Center for Aerospace on a passenger jet. Stability and such components is such a enables uniform distributionprovider, citim GmbH serves (DLR) from 2016, the mission rigidity form a second essential protracted and complex process. Customer Case Study Aerospace of forces the entire production chain, costs of space exploration per on any specification sheet. Every certification represents an Lightweight and highly stable: The topologically optimized antenna bracket for Sentinel satellites with EOS Aluminium • Robust: minimum rigidity providing rapid prototyping, kilogram of transportedAlSi10Mg payload using additive manufacturing.Unfortunately (Source: this EOS requirement GmbH) is accolade for the engineers who requirements exceeded by additive manufacturing and over 30% are upwards of € 20,000. Every usually diametrically opposed to have achieved it. small-series production, from • Lightweight: design contrib- Customer Case Studysingle Aerospace gram savedCertified reduces totalfor Universalthe need for Success: a lightweight design. utes to a weight reductioninitial of construction through to launch costs, as the system Solution 40% Additive Manufacturing of Satellite Components component finishing. requires less fuel for the ascent. Engineers employ complex In such cases, the complete Facts • Accredited: requirements of As a result, aerospace engineers structures to identify a workable production chain plays an aerospace sector verified by Challenge comprehensive testing Further information need to shave every possible level of compromise between important role, particularly in the To develop an extremely of design. Component testing represented a particular lightweight and robust antenna www.ruag.com challenge, not least because of the aforementioned vibration. gram fromIn outer space, every reliability component counts, as repairs are generally– not form and weight. The RUAG team aerospace sector. "Obviously, the bracket for Sentinel satellites. possible. This also explains why the authorization of such www.citim.de components is such a protracted and complex process. Every Facts as excesscertification weight represents accumulates an accolade for the engineers who sought the optimum combination immense advantages of produ- have achieved it. Solution rapidly. Solution In this case, the Swiss of strength and weight for the cing components using additive Production of a component Challenge In such cases, the complete production chain plays an used for testing. Among other things, engineers examined important role, particularly in the aerospace sector. “Obviously, the brackets in computer tomographs. Various mechanical To develop an extremely using additive manufacturing, RUAG thegroup immense wereadvantages in of producingneed componentsof an using andstructure physical procedures of were its also antenna performed. At times, bracket, the manufacturing was of great additive manufacturing was of great interest to us,“ explained stresses brought to bear on the component deliberately which, by virtue of to its lightweight and robust antenna Franck Mouriaux, General Manager of Structures at RUAG. exceeded the load limits, ultimately leading to the destruction bracket for Sentinel satellites. optimally”For example, designed design freedom antenna and complex components help ofas the testconventional pieces. manufacturing interest to us,“ explained Franck complex structures, fulfills all us to save weight. The ability to integrate functions is also very helpful. In the end, however, it is a case of identifying Results requirements of weight and bracket.these potential advantages, implementing them in an ideal methodsThe result of all these had efforts been was that exhausted. the new antenna Mouriaux, General Manager of Solution fashion and acquiring the necessary authorization. The bracket for the Sentinel satellites exceeded all expectations. stability. simplest component serves no purpose if it cannot be used.“ The component was awarded certification and with that, the Production of a component Lightweight and highly Fundamental suitability and rigidity testing formed the approvalThankfully, for its utilization additive in outer space. The manufactu achievement is - Structures at RUAG. ”For example, stable: The topologically starting point of the antenna bracket‘s design. The next step all the more remarkable considering that the use of additive Results using additive manufacturing, optimized antenna bracket comprised the selection of material, definition of processes manufacturing in space is still in its infancy. for Sentinel satellites with Yet weightand initial optimizationbasic tests in respect of the materialalone characteristics. is ring provided the perfect design freedom and complex • Intelligent: freedom of design which, by virtue of to its EOS Aluminium AlSi10Mg The initial test structures were then constructed, to serve For example, the component‘s minimum rigidity using additive manufacturing. as the starting point for the topological optimization of requirements were exceeded by more than 30% – a margin enables uniform distribution complex structures, fulfills all (Source: EOS GmbH) the component. RUAG was eventually able to achieve the – that is easily sufficient to ensure that, even after a turbulent not enough.theoretically –During perfect form fora the rocket antenna bracket, through flight,possibility an ideal antenna of position achieving could be attained the – and components help us to save of forces requirements of weight and a combination of intensive work with a CAD and FEM system radio communication with Earth guaranteed. The required Lightweight and highly stable: The topologically optimized antenna bracket for Sentinel satellites with EOS Aluminium from Altair and guidance from EOS on design and construction level of stability was achieved, in part because of the highly • Robust: minimum rigidity stability. launch,using the additive payload manufacturing. gets well and uniformnecessary stress distribution. freedom Moreover, the of use design. of additive weight. The ability to integrate Antenna bracketAlSi10Mg using additive for manufacturing. (Source: EOS GmbH) manufacturing led to a significant reduction in the weight of requirements exceeded by The approximately 40 cm long antenna bracket was the final component: down to 940 g from 1.6 kg, representing truly shakenproduced by citimup GmbH and from the Barleben level in Germany of using the aComponent saving of over 40%. In thistesting instance, the represented use of innovative a functions is also very helpful. In over 30% Results EOS M 400. With a construction volume of 400 x 400 x 400 mm, technology succeeded in achieving an unlikely combination: • Intelligent: freedomRUAG‘s of design Sentinel satellite - it was possible to produce two antennas, 30 tensile test pieces improved component characteristics and lower system costs. • Lightweight: design contrib- Certified for Universal Success: vibrationand various is considerable. test items in a single construction Also, order. The particular challenge, not least the end, however, it is a case of construction time was approximately 80 hours. The parameter ”We are very happy with the results of this project. We utes to a weight reduction of enables uniform distribution certified for use in outer space set used was for a layer thickness of 60 μm, optimized for entered unchartered territory on the process side and were of forces Additive Manufacturing of Satellite Components the enormoussurface quality and speeds productivity. of several rewardedbecause with a ofstable, the lightweight aforementioned component,“ says identifying these potential 40% Aerospace Engineer Mouriaux. ”Additive manufacturing Lightweight and highly stable: The topologically optimized antenna bracket for Sentinel satellites with EOS Aluminium • Accredited: requirements of • Robust: minimum orrigidity many people, talking of the infinite vastness of the case, the Swiss RUAG group were in need of an optimally The aluminium alloy used, EOS Aluminium AlSi10Mg, is has shown that it can fulfill the fundamental procedural universe conjures up stories of science fiction, usually designed antennabracket. AlSi10Mg using additive manufacturing.thousand (Source:characterized EOS kilometers GmbH) by high strength per and hour,strong resistance not to demandsvibration. of space travel. In Theouter multiple space, design advantages advantages, implementing them aerospace sector verified by requirements Fexceededtold by bya Hollywood film studio. However, in real life, dynamic stress, making the material perfectly suited for use and the characteristics of the component itself have certainly more than in any other area, it is arguably in space travel that a Yet weight optimization alone is not enough. During a with high-stress components. Comprehensive tests were proven this. I see great potential for this technology going comprehensive testing over 30% strong will and clear vision are vital for creating the necessary rocket launch, the payload gets well and truly shaken up and to mentioncarried out theto demonstrate high the G-forces, required characteristics, – in forward.“reliability So, while Hollywood counts, tells exciting as stories, repairs innovative are in an ideal fashion and acquiring technology and readying it for deployment in the cosmos. the level of vibration is considerable. Also, the enormous the aerospace sector, these comprise up to 80% of the total technology continues to live them everyday, extending the • Lightweight: Thisdesign was contrib-the challenge faced by Swiss technology group speeds of several thousandCertified kilometers per hour, for not toUniversal Success:scope of a project. Specially manufactured test structures were frontiers of design and construction. RUAG in the construction of its Sentinel satellite, designed mention the high G-forces, mean that the flight will not be the necessary authorization. The utes to a weightfor observing reduction our planet of from on high. Even here, beyond the as smooth as you would expecton a passenger jet. Stability Earth‘s atmosphere, additive manufacturing is playingAdditive a key and rigidityManufacturing formThe a secondtechnological essential on anyof specificationsymbiosis Satellite Components 40% role. sheet. Unfortunately this requirement is usually diametrically simplest component serves no opposed to ofthe topologyneed for a lightweight optimization design. Engineers and • Accredited: requirements Challenge of employ complex aerospace sectorAccording verified to reports by by the German Center for Aerospace additive manufacturing purpose if it cannot be used.“ (DLR) from 2016, the mission costs of space exploration per structures to identify a workable level of compromise comprehensivekilogram testing of transported payload are upwards of € 20,000. between form and weight. The RUAG team sought the optimum Every single gram saved reduces total launch costs, as the combination resultsof strength andin weighta halving for the structure in weight, of its system requires less fuel for the ascent. As a result, aerospace antenna bracket, as conventional manufacturing methods had engineers need to shave every possible gram from every been exhausted. Thankfully,reduced additive stress,manufacturing increased provided component – as excess weight accumulates rapidly. 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