a magazine dedicated to aerospace & defence industry www.aeromag.in March - April 2020 | Vol 14 | Issue 2 Indian Civil Aviation on the Upswing in association with Society of Indian Aerospace Technologies & Industries 7th EDITION HAL Convention Center, Bengaluru 27, 28 AUGUST 2020 100 + Exhibitors, More than 1000 Delegates Seminar | Product Exhibition B2B Meeting | Vendor Meet Contact : [email protected] | [email protected] | Tel : + 91 9448447509 | + 91 9480551925 | 91-80-43747492 2 3 EDITORIAL ndia boasts of the third biggest Civil Aviation sector in the world, but stakeholders face a host of issues. IFor instance, several private airlines, including two major operators, have grounded their entire fleet over the last few years. Operating costs of the airlines have steadily gone up while taxation issues related to Maintenance, Repair and Overhaul (MRO) of aircraft are unaddressed. The cost of aircraft fuel is the highest in our country which is adversely affecting the domestic airlines. These needs Editorial Advisory Board to be addressed and domestic airlines have to become Dr. C.G. Krishnadas Nair economically more viable for growth of air traffic in the Air Chief Marshal S. Krishnaswamy (Rtd) country and bring benefits to the Nation. In fact, the PVSM, AVSM, VM & Bar MRO industry in the country is still in a nascent stage, Air Marshal P. Rajkumar (Rtd) despite the huge potential. Opportunities for manufacture under ToT as well as design & development of commercial aircraft are lost in the past. PVSM, AVSM, VM Government of India has launched a number of programmes to boost the sector. One Air Marshal Ajit Bhavanani (Rtd) such initiative aimed at expanding the air network is the Regional Connectivity Scheme PVSM, AVSM, VM (RCS-UDAN). Under the scheme, new airports are developed in rural and un-served areas Rear Admiral K. Mohanan (Rtd), AVSM of the country. As a result, the number of operational airports in India has crossed 100. The Mr. Pushpindar Singh Chopra Government has also released the National Civil Aviation Policy (NCAP) in 2016. Dr . K. Ram Chand Offset Clause in the Defense Procurement Policy was also been made available to the Mr. J.K.Sharma Indian industries for supply of goods and services to civil aircraft manufacturing OEMs. Mr. Arunakar Mishra This has encouraged the Indian public and private sector industries to enhance their capability in manufacture of components, equipments and structures for civil aircraft and Berlin, Germany bagged export orders from major foreign OEMs manufacturing commercial aircraft. The Detlef Becker design and manufacturing technology readiness level by the Indian industries have taken a leap, thanks to the efforts of the large private industries like HAL and number of large E : [email protected] private industry corporates, National Aerospace Laboratories (NAL) and DRDO Labs. A T : + 497 112317595 number of initiatives are being taken up by NAL & HAL to design India’s own commercial M : + 491 701626053 aircraft for Regional Transport. However these require considerable funding, participation of private industries/foreign OEMs and support has to come from government. While we Paris, France are boasting of importing several hundreds of aircraft into the country for domestic airlines, Marie-Thérèse Bonfigli we have not taken any initiative from Civil Aviation to support the domestic industry to E : [email protected] indigenously design and develop commercial aircraft. Even with respect to aircraft MRO M : +33 (0)6 89 20 95 68 industry, the country is in the infant stage, despite the huge potential. Total estimated import of commercial aircraft to India as per the Vision-2040 document Moscow, Russia of MOCA is approximately 2400 aircrafts upto year 2040 costing approximately 300 Billion George Smirnov US Dollars. If we can introduce Offset as done in the Defense Procurement Policy, the Civil Aviation Ministry will receive an offset credit of approximately 98 Billion US Dollars E : [email protected] @ 30% value of the import. It is important to note that some countries like China, Japan M : +7 (906)711-03- & Korea have implemented upto 50% of Import value as ‘Offset’ and made it mandatory 51 / (495)644-17-33 to make the aircraft in their country. ‘Offset’ can be used to stimulate both Indian public and private sector industries to set up facilities or as Joint Venture with strategic alliance Sunny Jerome for manufacture of commercial aircraft in India as well as design and development of Managing Editor commercial aircraft in India. It will also provide for large investments in the commercial aircraft MRO generating an income of billions of Dollars. This will provide great growth for Preethi M. commercial aircraft manufacture and MRO industry creating huge amount of employment Associate Editor and wealth in the country. This will be the biggest contribution of the Ministry of Civil Aviation to realise ‘Make in India’ vision of the Prime Minister and for the country. David Barnabhas Design For Publishing Articles, Advertisements Editor, Aeromag Asia Dr C G Krishnadas Nair Aeronautical Society of India Building Honorary President, SIATI Suranjandas Road, Off old Madras Road, Bangalore 560075. Karnataka, INDIA Call: +91 94490 61925 Printed and Published by Sunny Jerome, Managing Editor, Aeromag Asia, Aerosun Media, Tel: +91 80 43747492 | 25284145 Aeronautical Society of India Building, Suranjandas Road, Email: [email protected] Off Old Madras Road,Bangalore 560075, Karnataka. www.aeromag.in Printed at Rashtrotthana Mudranalaya, 19/1, K.G.Nagar, Bangalore-19. 4 LAND A N D A IRLAND D E FEN C E A N D S E CURI T Y EXHIBI T I O N 08-12 JUNE 2020 / PARIS THE UNMISSABLE WORLDWID E EXHIBITION 1,802 exhibitors +14,7% from 63 countries 65,9% of international 65 startups at Eurosatory LAB 98,721 Total attendance (exhibitors, visitors, press, organisers) 227 Official delegations from 94 countries and 4 organisations (representing 760 delegates) 696 journalists from 44 countries 75 Conferences 2,102 Business meetings made 2018 key figures Content 09 Indian civil aviation on the upswing 16 Govt policies boost defence startups in India 18 Engines that spur India’s aviation success story 20 Big plans for Avi-Oil in civil aviation 22 Navy Gets New Flag Officer Sea Training 24 HAL Hands Over 50th Set of L-40 Stage of GSLV-MKII 27 Mi-171A2 reaches Record speed 28 “Shipyards to strive to be world class entities” 16 30 US-India Defence Relationship a collaborative one 33 Navy Reviews Refit of Ships and Infrastructure Buildup 34 Wings up for Singapore Airshow 2020 36 GRSE delivers the 4th Anti-Submarine Warfare Corvette 38 Bay of Bengal offshore Sailing Expedition (Bbse) 40 President of India Presents Colour to INS Shivaji 38 42 SalamAir selects Commsoft’s OASES 44 GRSE receives Governance Now PSU Awards 48 Solid Carbide Drill with SGL-Point Geometry 50 SIATI holds Supply Chain Conference 52 DRDO handed over 15 licenses for ToT 42 54 Kalyani Group & Arsenal signed MOU 60 DEFEXPO, a strong foundation for UP Defence Corridor 6 $5 trillion target through private participation in defence manufacturing: Rajnath Singh efence Minister to the digital-economy and process, hike in FDI cap, huge implications for India’s Rajnath Singh fostering human-capital. making defence export less endeavours to promote R&D, Dhas called for an Urging the defence industry stringent, streamlining the innovation and its efforts to increased participation of to make best use of the defence offset policy, opening secure a place in global supply the private sector in defence emerging opportunities, the government-owned trial chains,” Rajnath Singh said. manufacturing to realise the the minister said, a slew of and testing facilities for the He added that the necessity Government’s vision of making structural reforms has been private sector; setting up of becoming internationally India a $5 trillion economy taken by the Government of two defence industrial competitive, globally by 2024. In his address at to create increased synergy corridors and promotion innovative and structurally the Global Business Summit between the industry and of innovation through efficient demands that the ,Defence Minister said, the the public sector to overcome participation of start-ups and private sector plays a crucial manufacturing sector has the the challenges of private small and medium enterprises. role in defence production. potential to reach $1 trillion investment in defence. He “In our envisaged Defence Rajnath Singh underlined by 2025 and the Government listed out several steps taken Production Policy, we have that while the primary aim of is striving to achieve the under the ‘Make in India’ clearly spelt out our goal to Defence production is to cater goal by implementing key initiative, including greater achieve a turnover of $26 to the needs of the Armed flagship programmes like scope for domestic industry in billion in aerospace and Forces, thrust is also being ‘Make in India’, besides defence tenders, simplification defence goods & services given for enhancing exports. building policies relevant of the industrial licensing by 2025. This will have He said, Defence Public 7 with foreign Original Equipment Manufacturers. Describing the Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) as silent performers, he said, efforts are being made to double the active their base in defence and aerospace from 8,000 to 16,000. He added that Innovations for Defence Excellence (iDEX) was formulated with the objective to bring startups to innovate, develop technologies and solve problems related to Defence and Aerospace. Rajnath Singh voiced the Government’s aim to double the size of Aeronautics Industry from Rs 30,000 crore to Rs 60,000 crore by Defence Minister Rajnath Singh visiting the Light Combat Helicopter Final Assembly Hangar, at 2024 and provide increased Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) Complex, in Bengaluru. R. Madhavan, CMD, HAL, also seen. opportunities to global aerospace industry to become Sector Undertakings have since 2014.