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Rajkumar (Rtd) Ready to consider jv for manufacturing in partnerships. Similarly, it will also provide an LCA-Navy can be a replacement PVSM, AVSM, VM opportunity for Overseas industries to become India, says Diehl Aerosystems Air Marshal Ajit Bhavanani (Rtd) more aware of Indian Industry & R&D capabilities for Sea Harrier: Balaji PVSM, AVSM, VM and develop sustainable supply chains and long Rear Admiral K. Mohanan (Rtd) term strategic partnerships. AVSM Page 32 Innovative, Mr. Pushpindar Singh Chopra India continues to be one of the promising aerospace and defense Dr . K. Ram Chand (A&D) markets in the world. A number of Indian companies are now BEL eyes big business in cost-effective Mr. J.K.Sharma suppliers to several international OEMs directly or through their Tier homeland security, telecom and ecologically Mr. Arunakar Mishra one suppliers. This goes to show the development and quality which Air Cmdre. (Rtd) Joseph Varkey our industry has achieved in recent years. In addition to the large Page 74 friendly Sukhoi PSUs and Private Industries, many of the Indian MSMEs are performing Delhi extremely well in the aerospace & defense manufacturing sector. AWACS programme getting Superjet 100 Gp. Capt. (Rtd) H.C.Bhatia 26 Ashok Iyer The global defense industry can take advantage of the promising firmed up on the drawing E-mail : [email protected] Indian Aerospace & Defense market by partnering with Indian board: CABS 74 Page 40 industries. I suggest a two mutually complementary and sustainable Bombay P. A. Augustine approach for this partnership. Page 90 CEMILAC widens its horizons Email : [email protected] Global aerospace industries must, leverage on the offset package and GTRE plans to develop Page 54 Germany form JVC with Indian DPSUs, PSUs and large Private Industries. Global engine for AMCA in Detlef Becker Aerospace industries must link their tier one suppliers directly with Keen to grow aerospace biz Email : [email protected] Indian SMEs to form partnership of mutual advantage and become collaboration with global suppliers to their Indian JVs and to their overseas operations. team in India: Atkins Phone : + 497 112317595 Mobile : + 491 701626053 engine house SIATI and Aeromag Asia wish participating companies and delegates Dubai all success. Rajan Joseph 8 E mail : [email protected] Dr. Saraswat takes DRDO London to greater heights, India’s Naresh Mohan Yadav Tel : + 44 208 989 1110 self-reliance in defence zooming Advertisements : Warmly, Tel : + 91 80 25284145 / 65952377 Mobile : + 91 94490 61925 Email : [email protected] Dr CG Krishnadas Nair Honorary President, SIATI Website : www.aeromag.in Printed and Published by Sunny Jerome, Managing Editor, Aeromag Asia, Aerosun Media Pvt. Ltd. B-2, SAPPHIRE, 1 st Block, 3 rd Street, 2nd Cross, Prakruthi Town Ship, Babusapalya, Kalyan Nagar Post, Bangalore -560043. Printed at Rashtrotthana Mudranalaya, 19/1, K.G.Nagar, Bangalore-19. Aeromag 4 Aeromag 5 Antony to create a record of sorts at Aero India 2013 efence Minister A K Antony is creating a Total solutions. record of sorts at Aero India 2013. It’s the Dfourth time he is inaugurating the mega show as Defence Minister, after doing the honours It’s in our DNA. in 2007, 2009 and 2011 editions. Antony is keen that the industry should spend more on research and development. He called upon the Indian Industry belonging to both public and private sectors to forsake their “miserly attitude” towards spending on R & D. “The Government has been keen to encourage the industry to realign its business processes for strategic alliances and joint ventures. The government is also encouraging the industry to step up the R&D efforts to remain globally competitive, especially in critical technology areas”, he said. The Indian industry is at the threshold of becoming a global player in the field of information and communication technology, engineering and manufacturing. The introduction of Buy and Make (Indian category) is a significant step that has been designed to enhance indigenisation with the opening up of the defence sector in India to 100 per cent Indian private sector in participation with foreign direct investment permissible up to 26 per cent. Antony hoped that the industry will gradually assume the role of system integrator and manufacturer of complete defence equipment and systems. “This provides a major shift in the role of private sector in India”, he said. The Defence Minister said MoD is in the process of revising the Defence Procurement Procedure (DPP) and the revised DPP will be operational from the next financial year. Describing offsets Our world-leading solutions as an integrated part of India’s policy to promote meet your most demanding indigenisation, he said the policy has enabled requirements in space, greater participation of the defence industry in the in the air, on land and at country. sea. We aspire to redefine The revised offset guidelines which came into effect from August last year include multipliers adaptability, performance and reliability, to incentivise investment in MSME and facilitate for today and tomorrow, to fulfill our technology acquisition. The need to strengthen the dream of a safer and secure world. monitoring mechanism for the implementation of offsets has been addressed by establishing of the Defence Offset Monitoring Wing under the Defence Acquisition Council. “I hope that offset as mechanism will be fully utilised by the private industry in conjunction with SEE US AT the foreign collaborations, towards armament AERO INDIA 2013 indigenisation and manufacturing”, the Minister Israel Pavilion, Hall A added. Aeromag 6 Israel Aerospace Industries E-mail: [email protected] www.iai.co.il7 place systems (excluding the strategic systems) r Vijay Kumar Saraswat is a based on technologies developed by DRDO man of action. He started his (inducted/accepted/orders placed) during Dr. Saraswat takes DRDO Dcareer in DRDO in 1972, and as the past one decade is well over Rs 1,50, 000 Project Director, he steered the design, crore. Today, over 55% of the requirements development, production and induction of for our defence forces are being met first indigenous surface-to-surface missile indigenously, largely with the technologies to greater heights, system Prithvi into the Armed Forces. The developed by DRDO, besides range of successful testing of missile on-board spin‐offs for societal benefits, contributing a moving ship with very Dhanush high greatly to our nation’s economy as well as terminal accuracy brought new dimensions civil society. in the national defence scenario. exactly as expected”. India’s self-reliance Under the able leadership of Dr Saraswat, He spoke excitedly about the Agni AWACS India has embarked on a challenging, programme. Agni 5, India’s state of the art DRDO has just taken up development of futuristic Air Defence Programme long range ballistic missile termed as “the the Airborne Warning and Control System encompassing development of complex game changer”, was the star attraction (AWACS) that will have the capability to in defence zooming anti-ballistic missile systems, radars, in DRDO contingent in the Republic Day penetrate “longer distances” in enemy C4I systems and integration of battle Parade this year. territory by way of radars and electronic management resources into a national Saraswat said Airborne Early Warning and warfare systems without venturing into the authority.