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We make it y. airbus.com 14043_AIR_A330NEO_280x430_Vayu_1.0.indd 1 17/07/2018 11:09 C O M M E N T A R Y Farnborough 2018 in retrospect The Quest Continues ith the Singapore Air Show earlier this year being (seen as) ndia’s quest for procuring 110 fighter aircraft for its air Wa sales flop, Brexit storm clouds, the world on the brink Iforce is progressing with six global aviation majors having of a global trade war and the UK MoD’s mini-defence MDP responded to the Request for Information for the programme. review being delayed, expectations were low going into the 2018 The aircraft makers which responded to the RFI would have Farnborough Air Show that this year’s exhibition would end up mentioned the operational and technical parameters of their being a damp squib. military platforms. They have also indicated fly-away price of While it is true, and more than one visitor remarked on the the aircraft. The IAF will now draft its technical requirements sparse flying display, by end of the week it had been a bumper for the tenders that can be issued within the next three to six show with over 1,400 orders (firm, options and MoUs) signed, months. The competition to give India’s new fighter jet will worth $190bn and only beaten by the 2014 show. Indeed, the start after the global players respond to these tenders. As per first day’s order total was double that achieved at the 2016 show. current plans, Indian private sector manufacturers are expected Boeing was the eventual leader with 673 commitments announced to tie up with the winning global player to manufacture these (145 of these, however, were already in the order book), overtaking aircraft in India. Airbus’ 431 sales tally. The six firms had competed in an earlier attempt to provide Although Farnborough is a global exhibition, this year had a 126 fighter aircraft to the IAF, known as the Medium Multi more British theme to it, coming hard on the heels of RAF 100 Role Combat Aircraft (MMRCA) programme which was celebrations in London and UK aerospace, aviation and space scrapped after Prime Minister Narendra Modi in April 2015 sectors pulled out all the stops. Dominating the military front was had announced that India would instead procure 36 Rafale jets the reveal of a full-size mock-up from UK’s Team Tempest of a from France in a government-to-government deal. sixth-generation fighter concept, aimed at being in service by 2035. Later, the defence ministry had another plan of procuring Part of Britain’s Combat Air Strategy, also launched at Farnborough 114 single engine fighters with foreign collaboration at an week, the concept was unnamed until UK Defence Secretary Gavin estimated cost of Rs 1.15 lakh crore. This plan was also Williamson referred to it in his speech as the ‘Tempest’ jet, an scrapped earlier this year. In April, the defence ministry issued appropriate moniker that has stuck and also makes it stand out a RFI to procure 110 fighter jets, which project includes both from the myriad other FCAS-named projects. single and twin engine fighter aircraft. Two of the competitors Though the Tempest that enters service will arguably end up in this contest are single engine fighter (the F-16 and the looking different from the concept shown at Farnborough, the Gripen), while the remaining four are twin-engined. UK’s vision and capabilities for a next-gen combat system, that According to the RFI, the procurement of the 110 aircraft will be affordable, flexible and incorporate cutting-edge tech have should have 15 per cent aircraft in fly away condition and undoubtedly sparked lots of interest around the world, especially the remaining 85 per cent to be made in India by a ‘Strategic with its overriding message that Britain is looking for partners to Partner’.