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16642018.Pdf DEFEXPO 2018 S PECIAL VISIT US AT HALL ‘6’ STALL 6.2.10 SP’s AN SP GUIDE PUBLICATION ED BUYER ONLY) ED BUYER -BAS A NDI I 100.00 ( ` aviationSHARP CONTENT FOR SHARP A UDIENCE www.sps-aviation.com vol 21 ISSUE 4 • 2018 MILITARY • IAF: Revamp in Slow Motion • F/A-18 for India: Multi-role, Combat Tested — Pratyush Kumar, Boeing DIPLOMACY French President Visit CIVIL • SpiceJet- CFM Deal LAST WORD Need Adequate Funding • Show Report: Wings India BUSINESS AVIATION • China Scenario • Falcon 8X 36 USP +++ RAFALE PAge 14 Full Details of Euro 4 billion RNI NUMBER: DELENG/2008/24199 Make in India & Offsets Plan (Courtesy: Livefist) B:220 mm T:210 mm S:180 mm B:288 mm S:226 mm T:267 mm MULTI-ROLE COMBAT-PROVEN BUILT FOR THE FUTURE As the most advanced and lowest-cost fi ghter per fl ight hour, the F/A-18 Super Hornet will deliver next-gen superiority and survivability to India. By assembling, testing and certifying this aircraft at a state-of-the-art Factory of the Future in India, Boeing will help grow the country’s aerospace ecosystem. And with a plan for growth, the F/A-18 Super Hornet will continue to outpace threats—and make India stronger. Job Number: 10932910 Version: B Suffix: AIR FORCE BUILT FOR THE FUTURE Client/Brand: Boeing/BDS Date: 3-19-2018 5:02 PM APPROVALS File Name: 10932910vBsAFBFF_FA18_India_210x267.indd QC: Steve Jablonoski Bleed: 220 mm x 288 mm Gutter: None Publications: SP’s Aviation PA: Steve Hutchings PR: Pat Owens Trim: 210 mm x 267 mm Folds: NoneNone Notes: None RET: Greg Olsen PP: Chris Joyce Safety: 180 mm x 226 mm Media/Color Sp: PRINT/4 COLOR AB: Sandra Sanchez TM: Kate Vilt/Deanna Loperena Scale: 1=1 Country: None Vendor: None GCD: Eugene Varnado Actual Size: 210 x 267 mm Language: English Output%: None Colors: Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, Black AD: Alex Yancy Fonts: Helvetica Neue (55 Roman, 95 Black; Type 1) CW: Danielle Janota AE: Michael Etzel/Erin Heiser ALL CONTENT WITHIN THIS FILE IS FOR OUTPUT ONLY BY END PRINTER/VENDOR. CHANGES, SHARING AND/OR DISTRIBUTING CONTENT IN WHOLE OR IN PART ARE STRICTLY PROHIBITED. LICENSING RIGHTS AND APPROVALS MUST BE REQUESTED AND APPROVED TO/BY FCB CHICAGO. Images: 10932910CT01_R0_FA18_India_275x430.tif (384 ppi; CMYK), Boeing_white_50mm.eps PUBLISHER AND EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Jayant Baranwal SENIOR EDITOR TABLE OF CONTENTS Air Marshal B.K. Pandey (Retd) DEPUTY MANAGING EDITOR Neetu Dhulia DEFEXPO 2018 SPECIAL SENIOR TECHNICAL GROUP EDITOR VISIT US AT HALL ‘6’ STALL 6.2.10 Lt General Naresh Chand (Retd) SP’s AN SP GUIDE PUBLICATION ASSISTANT FEATURES EDITOR Arpita Kala 100.00 (INDIA-BASED BUYER ONLY) BUYER 100.00 (INDIA-BASED PRINCIPAL CORRESPONDENT ` aviationSHARP CONTENT FOR SHARP AUDIENCE Rohit Srivastava www.sps-aviation.com VOL 21 ISSUE 4 • 2018 MILITARY • IAF: Revamp in CONTRIBUTORS vol 21 ISSUE 4 • 2018 Slow Motion • F/A-18 for India: India: Group Captain A.K. Sachdev (Retd), Multi-role, Combat Tested Group Captain Joseph Noronha (Retd) — Pratyush COver imaGE Kumar, Boeing DIPLOMACY Europe: Alan Peaford French President Visit CIVIL Offsets of the Rafale deal involve • SpiceJet- CFM Deal USA & Canada: LeRoy Cook LAST WORD investments and sourcing that companies Need Adequate Funding • Show Report: CHAIRMAN & MANAGING DIRECTOR Wings India BUSINESS manufacturing the Rafale must make in AVIATION Jayant Baranwal • China India amounting to half of the deal’s Scenario PLANNING & BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT • Falcon 8X €7.87 billion value. 36 USP Executive Vice President: Rohit Goel +++ ADMIN & COORDINATION COver image bY RAFALE PAGE 14 Bharti Sharma Dassault Aviation Full Details of Euro 4 billion ASSt – AdMin, hr & infrA RNI NUMBER: DELENG/2008/24199 Make in India & Offsets Plan (Courtesy: Livefist) Pooja Tehlani SP's Aviation Cover 4-2018.indd 1 05/04/18 6:30 PM DESIGN Holistic Directions: Jayant Baranwal Creative Director: Anoop Kamath Designers: Vimlesh Kumar Yadav, CIVIL SHOw reporT Sonu Singh Bisht Research Assistant: Graphics 4 Industry 25 Wings India 2018 Survi Massey SpiceJet- CFM Deal — Opportunities in Indian Aviation DIRECTOR: SALES & MARKETING ACME of Indian Aviation Neetu Dhulia SALES & MARKETING General Manager Sales: Rajeev Chugh DIPLOMACY REgular DepARTMENTS sP’S WEBSITES Sr Web Developer: Shailendra P. Ashish 8 France 2 A Word from Editor-in-Chief Web Developer: Ugrashen Vishwakarma French President Visit © SP Guide Publications, 2018 Re-Energises Ties 29 Hall of Fame Subscription/Circulation Annual Inland: `1,200 • Foreign: US$320 Sabiha Gökçen (1913-2001) E-mail: [email protected] MILITARY [email protected] 30 News Digest 10 Combat Aircraft LETTER TO EDITOR [email protected]; [email protected] Slow Revamp 32 Last Word For Advertising details, contact: [email protected] 14 Offset Need Adequate Funding [email protected] EXCLUSIVE SP GUIDE PUBLICATIONS PVT LTD A-133 Arjun Nagar, (Opposite Defence Colony) 1st Full Details of Rafale’s New Delhi 110003, India. €4-billion Make in India & Tel: +91 (11) 24644693, 24644763, 24620130 Fax: +91 (11) 24647093 Offsets Plan E-mail: [email protected] Representative Office 18 Boeing BENGALURU, INDIA “F/A-18 Super Hornet for India: 204, Jal Vayu Vihar, Kalyan Nagar, Bengaluru 560043, India. Multi-role, Combat Tested and Tel: +91 (80) 23682204 Built for the Future” MOSCOW, RUSSIA LAGUK Co., Ltd., (Yuri Laskin) Krasnokholmskaya, Nab. BUSINEss aVIATION 11/15, app. 132, Moscow 115172, Russia. Tel: +7 (495) 911 2762 20 China Awards 2017 Fax: +7 (495) 912 1260 The Dragon on a Shopping Spree SPECIAL MEMBER OF 23 Interview CONTRIBUTION TO Falcon 8X is Better BUSINESS AVIATION NEXt issue: EBACE Special www.sps-aviation.comWWW.SPGUIDEPUBLICATIONS.COM ISSUE 4 • 2018 1 A WORD from editOR-in-CHIEF Strengthening Indo-French relations are relevant in the context of the growing influence of China in the region and the need to curb her menacing territorial ambitions Perhaps the most inspiring event in the recent past Hornet in its search for a combat aircraft to build up the strength in India in the domain of defence and strategic affairs, was the of its combat fleet in the IAF. He explains how this option would four-day visit to India in March this year by the President of not only provide the IAF a highly capable platform, but will also France, Emmanuel Macron. This visit by the French President be an impetus to the aerospace industry in India. was eminently successful and aimed at reinforcing bilateral In the domain of the Indian civil aviation industry, the major relationship between the two nations, pushing the long-stand- event in the recent past was Wings India 2018 held at Hyder- ing strategic partnership to a new level to enable India to play a abad. Two new business jets, Dassault’s ultra-long Falcon 8X much larger role in the world and especially in the Indo-Pacific and the Hondajet made their maiden appearance at the airshow. Region. This is particularly relevant in the context of the grow- Rohit Srivastava has covered the airshow in detail in this issue. ing influence of China in the region. During the visit of the French President, forward movement One of the issues, from this visit, over which the Indian Air was recorded in the civil aviation industry when the Indian low- Force (IAF), had hopes of good news was the possibility of the cost carrier SpiceJet finalised a $12.50 billion deal with CFM for procurement of additional 36 Rafale jets from Dassault of France. the purchase of LEAP-1B engines for their fleet of 155 Boeing However, as the initial procurement of 36 Rafale jets has got 737 MAX airliners as well as spare engines to support the fleet. A mired in political controversy, the Government chose to postpone report on this by Arpita Kala figures in this issue. Arpita also has announcement on the proposal only after the commencement of a report on the growth of business aviation in China and emerg- delivery of the first lot of these combat platforms. ing trends in this segment of the Chinese civil aviation industry. This issue includes an extensive story on the host of details All this and more in this issue of SP’s Aviation. Welcome pertaining to 36 Rafale fighters’ ‘Make in India’ and Offsets’ aboard and do visit us at Booth No. 6.2.10 in Hall 6 at the Def- plan; courtesy Livefist, a blog by an active aerospace and expo 2018. defence journalist Shiv Aroor. This report from Shiv Aroor on the first deal for 36 Rafale jets focuses not only on the trans- parency of the deal, but also the phenomenal opportunities that are embedded in it for the Indian aerospace industry in the private sector on account of the offset obligation of 50 per cent. On the acquisition of combat and other platforms for the IAF, this issue of the magazine carries a detailed report by Gp Capt J Noronha which highlights the extremely slow process at which induction of new platforms are taking place. The bottom line is the need for adequate funding without which the IAF cannot attain the levels of modernisation that it badly needs. This issue of SP’s Aviation carries an interview with Pratyush JAYANT BARANWAL Kumar, President, Boeing India, wherein he shares his perspec- tive on why India should seriously consider the F/A-18 Super PUBLISHER & EDITor-in-CHIEF Owned, published and printed by Jayant Baranwal, printed at Kala Jyothi Process Pvt Ltd and published at FOLLOW US ON A-133, Arjun Nagar (Opposite Defence Colony), New Delhi 110003, India. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, photocopying, recording, electronic, or otherwise without prior written permission of the Publishers.
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