IV/2016 Aerospace & Defence Review The Show Goes on ! ILA 2016 Airbus DS in Germany Airbus Innovation Days RIAT 2016 Eurosatory 2016 Farnborough 2016 FOR INDIA. FROM INDIA. EXPORTED TO THE WORLD. AT LOCKHEED MARTIN, WE’RE ENGINEERING A BETTER TOMORROW. © 2016 LOCKHEED MARTIN CORPORATION Live: H: NA Trim: H: 280mm W: 215mm Job Number: FG16-03934T Designer: Kevin Gray Bleed: H: 286mm W: 221mm Publication: Vayu Aerospace Q/A: Becky Maddux Gutter: None Visual: F-16 India Communicator: Carla Krivanek Resolution: 300 DPI Country: India Due Date: 7/13/16 Density: 300 Color Space: CMYK IV/2016 IV/2016 Aerospace & Defence Review 44 The Old Order 71 ILA 2016 Changeth The Show Goes on ! ILA 2016 Airbus DS in Germany Airbus Innovation Days RIAT 2016 Eurosatory 2016 Farnborough 2016 as Vayu’s editorial team sploshed their Cover: Airbus A380 under ‘monsoon skies’ at way to visit companies and interview Farnborough 2016 (Photo: Airbus) Admiral Arun Prakash reminisces about executives for this exclusive report. the transition of the ‘White Tigers’ The ILA Berlin Airshow 2016 followed from the trusty Sea Hawk to the on heels of the Hamburg visit and DITORIAL ANEL remarkable Sea Harrier, and now to the highlights of this event, whose theme Of Indian interest E P new-generation MiG-29K. As a young too was Innovation and Leadership is 106 MANAGING EDITOR Naval Aviator, he first flew the ‘Elegant Aerospace(interestingly also ‘ILA’), appear in this Issue. Vikramjit Singh Chopra Sea Hawk’ and decades later, was the first squadron commander of INAS EDITORIAL ADVISOR 300, reincarnated with the ‘Beloved Eurosatory 2016 Admiral Arun Prakash Sea Harrier’. The former CNS now 76 welcomes the MiG-29K ! EDITORIAL PANEL Pushpindar Singh 55 Sharper Claws for Air Marshal Brijesh Jayal the White Tigers Indian flavour at Farnborough 2016 Dr. Manoj Joshi came from both the public and private sectors, HAL’s chalet becoming the Lt. Gen. Kamal Davar rendezvous for formal meetings and ‘just Lt. Gen. BS Pawar June is a beautiful month in Paris, which the place’ to meet for the countrymen Air Marshal M. Matheswaran city also hosts the biennial Eurosatory, abroad. The official Indian government Gp Capt JC Malik land, air-land defence and security delegation was complemented by show organised by GICAT. Vayu’s Editor Cdr M Nirmal presence of a relatively a large Indian Angad Singh was at INS Hansa in mid- was there to bring key aspects of the media contingent and Vayu focuses Monica Arora May 2016 when the Sea Harriers were Show to its readers including trends in on matters on particular interest for Angad Singh formally retired and INAS 300 was land warfare and homeland security the country. Richard Gardner (UK) resurrected with the MiG-29K, albeit systems. Reuben Johnson (USA) as the Navy’s new Operational Training Unit. In a following photo feature, for 40 years back … Bertrand de Boisset (France) Airbus DS in 112 the record, are images of the first and 83 Dr Nick Evesenkin (Russia) last Sea Harrier COs… ‘Home is the Germany Tamir Eshel (Israel) Sailor’ … ADVERTISING & MARKETING MANAGER Airbus Husnal Kaur 60 Innovation Days BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT MANAGER Premjit Singh In this special, and retrospective piece, Vayu looks back at its first Farnborough Air Show in 1976, forty years back, which makes for fascinating reading UBLISHED Y considering that the DPSA, AJT, LTA P B The location for Airbus Defence & and other programmes were then at Vayu Aerospace Pvt. Ltd. Space trade media briefing (TMB’16) the embryonic stage. Indian aviation D-43, Sujan Singh Park, this year was Germany! Vayu’s Editor history has been enshrined by Vayu for New Delhi 110 003 India spent time with the Company at over four decades... and it continues. Munich and its environs, given updates Tel: +91 11 24617234 Vayu was at Hamburg for the ‘Airbus on various programmes, particularly the Also : Red Flag-Alaska 16-1; Innovation Days 2016’ programme Fax: +91 11 24628615 A330 MRTT, A400M and C295. Exercise Desert Eagle II; Russian which covered the company’s e-mail: [email protected] Might on Parade ; KADEX 2016; production programmes, with its e-mail: [email protected] BrahMos-A; RIAT 2016; Exercise immense order backlog. The A320 Farnborough 2016 Iniohos; SAFFC 1966-2016. ‘amazing airliner’ has emerged in its 95 The Farnborough Air Show 2016 ‘neo’ avatar but the Airbus ‘joint family’ will be remembered for its ‘Indian Printed at Aegean Offset Printers is well spaced to protect each other’s Monsoon’ conditions, with the second Regular features : value. Various concepts were reviewed, half of the first day literally washed out, Commentary, Opinion, Viewpoint, with all exhibitors and visitors virtually Aviation & Defence in India, World The opinions expressed in the articles Airbus unabashedly ‘taking a leaf from published in the Vayu Aerospace & Defence nature’ as its innovative technologies forced to evacuate the locale. The Aviation & Defence News, Ancient Review do not necessarily reflect the views shape the future of aircraft component overcast conditions remained through Aviator Anecdotes, Vayu 25 Years Back, or policies of the Publishers. manufacturing and design. the next days, but the show went on, Tale Spin. Visit us at: www.vayuaerospace.in Which fleet choice provides the most cost effective solution for my network? The A320 Family. Combining unbeatable fuel efficiency from 100 to 240 passengers and unmatched comfort with 18" seats standard. Airbus is the answer. airbus.com © AIRBUS, 2016. All rights reserved. Airbus, its logo and the product names are registered trademarks. Airbus_Vayu_JulyAug.indd Pg1 Prodigious UK 29/06/2016 12:25 Which fleet choice provides the most cost effective solution for my network? The A320 Family. Combining unbeatable fuel efficiency from 100 to 240 passengers and unmatched comfort with 18" seats standard. Airbus is the answer. airbus.com © AIRBUS, 2016. All rights reserved. Airbus, its logo and the product names are registered trademarks. Airbus_Vayu_JulyAug.indd Pg1 Prodigious UK 29/06/2016 12:25 C O M M E N T A R Y THE PRIDE OF VANDE MATARAM FLYING HIGH. beneficial in the furtherance of international non-proliferation HAPPY INDIAN INDEPENDENCE DAY. Tejas at Last objectives”. Coming as it did after the tough Chinese stance at he induction of two indigenous Tejas Light Combat Aircraft Seoul that denied India a possible membership of the Nuclear T(LCA) into the Indian Air Force (IAF) in Bangalore brings Suppliers Group (NSG), India’s ability to secure the endorsement a moment of celebration. It is after a gap of nearly five decades of all member-countries of MTCR must have provided some that the IAF has got an indigenously developed fighter aircraft. comfort to Indian negotiators after the Seoul setback. MTCR The HAL-made Marut HF-24 fighter was inducted into service in is one of the four export control regimes, whose membership April 1967, fought in the 1971 war in the Rajasthan sector and was India has been seeking since it signed the civil nuclear agreement decommissioned from the IAF in 1983. It was around then that the with the US in 2008. The other three such groups are: NSG, proposal for an indigenous LCA went to the drawing board, which where the fate of India’s membership at present is uncertain, the saw funds being released in 1993 and the first prototype was flown in Australia Group and the Wassenaar Arrangement - all of which 2001. As with any new product, there were teething problems with help regulate the conventional, nuclear, biological and chemicals the Tejas and the IAF was not keen on inducting the HAL-made weapons and technologies. There could be yet another reason for fighter into service. Then, Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar put India’s celebrations. China is not a member of MTCR. India could his weight behind the project and helped overcome the resistance arguably use its membership clout to block China’s application to of the IAF and bring the project to fruition. The current plan is to be its member in the future. Whether this clout would be strong have six squadrons of Tejas, of 20 fighters each, in service. enough to get China to reconsider and withdraw its objections to The concerns of the IAF were, however, not without merit. India’s membership of NSG is not yet clear, but some experts do The LCA has limitations and cannot match the most modern not rule out such a possibility. fourth generation fighters various foreign suppliers have been The larger question is whether India’s membership of MTCR offering to India. Moreover, the indigenous fighter has still not will help it trade more effectively in critical high-technology areas got the Final Operational Clearance (FOC), which signifies that or whether it would allow access to technologies that are otherwise the development of the aircraft up to agreed-upon specifications denied to it, eg, technology for missiles heavier than 500 kilograms is complete. The first 20 Tejas fighters being inducted have only and with a range longer than 300 kilometres. MTCR guidelines do secured an Initial Operational Clearance (IOC) which means that not differentiate exports to member countries from those to non- they can undertake only limited operations. The IAF expects the member countries. They also do not entitle a member country to next 20 to have the FOC, but there are worries about the next 80 obtain technology from another or impose any obligation to supply fighters which are Tejas Mk1A, an improved version of the Tejas. it. What this means is that India’s joining the MTCR will have little Even a prototype Tejas Mk1A has not flown yet. As of now, only positive impact on domestic programmes for the development of two fighters have been handed over to the IAF.