BHEL bags order to supply compact heat exchanger sets for Tejas aircraft
In a boost to India’s defence production under the government’s ‘Make in India’ initiative and self-reliance in the field of defence equipment, Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited has received an order for the supply of Compact Heat Exchanger sets for 83 LCA Tejas MK1A aircrafts.
The order envisages manufacturing, assembly, testing and
supply of Compact Heat Exchangers to be fitted in the LCA Tejas aircraft being
manufactured by HAL. Bharat Electricals’ Heavy Plates and Vessels Plant in Visakhapatnam
is the sole supplier of Heat Exchangers for LCA Tejas to HAL since 1996.
Bharat Electrical and Aeronautical Development Agency have
jointly designed and developed 13 different types of Compact Heat Exchangers
for Environmental Control System and Secondary Power System of LCA MK1
programme. Bharat Electricals is also currently working with DRDO for the
development of Air Cycle Machine based Liquid Cooling System for Aircraft POD
application for LCA Mk2.
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Project P75I: Why no country is offering submarines to India?
India’s $5.7 Billion program to acquire a new line of six
attack submarines under Project-75I is on verge of collapse, yet again as 5 out
of 6 foreign OEMs have already withdrawn their commercial offer due to
commercial terms of the Indian Navy’s Request for Proposal and some due to lack
of failure to meet the key tender technical requirement to have a proven fuel
cell based Air Independent Propulsion AIP system backed by lithium ion battery
technology.
ThyssenKrupp Marine Systems (TKMS) of Germany and Swedish
firm Saab have withdrawn from the Project-75I citing difficulties in the
transfer of key technologies and Intellectual Property while the Naval Group of
France, Rosoboron Export of Russia, and Navantia of Spain have been
disqualified at the Technical round due to lack of proven fuel cell based Air
Independent Propulsion system, that means Daewoo Shipbuilding and Marine
Engineering Company of South Korea is the only company left in the one sided
race.
South Korea’s proposal for the Indian Navy’s P75I is based on
the Republic of Korea Navy KSS-3 design that has a proven fuel cell based Air
Independent Propulsion system that utilizes lithium ion battery technology. To
again make it a too sided race India will need to convince another OEM or the
RFP will need to be cancelled since it becomes a single vendor situation that
is not allowed under Defence Acquisition Procedure.
The only other country that can meet this requirement other
than TKMS will be Japan. India in past had invited Japan to offer its Soryu class
submarine but Japan has refrained from offering its submarine technology to
India. Japan was the first country to operate submarines equipped with lithium-based
batteries and already have developed second generation lithium-based batteries
for its Taigei class submarines which is a successor of the Soryu class
submarine and are considered a world leader in this field.
Indian Navy will either have to redraw its RFPs or compromise
on the level of Transfer of Technology it had sought originally, whichever
decision it takes any way will only contribute to further delays in the program.
IAF to get the last 3 Rafale with India
specific enhancements this week
French company Dassault Aviation already has handed over the
last three Rafale with India specific enhancements a few days back that have 13
hardware and software changes that India had asked for. IAF will start its
ferry flight to India later this week as last of all contracted 36 jets will
have been delivered to India that was signed in 2016.
All the 13 India specific enhancements are already certified
by the concerned authorities and this will be incorporated into all 33 jets
that were previously delivered to IAF in the coming weeks with the major part
will be the incorporation of some components by a team of Dassault Engineers in
India.
While it is not disclosed what are 13 India specific
enhancements, it suspected that it is related to be long range air to air
missiles, low band frequency jammers, advanced communication systems, more
capable radio altimeter, radar warning receiver, flight data recorder, high altitude
engine start-up, synthetic aperture radar, ground moving target indicator and
tracking, infrared search and track, helmet mounted display, missile approach
warning systems, and very high frequency range decoys.
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