Indian Private Defence Sector

[Azaad]

Don't think HAL can succeed in civilian aerospace unless it's privatized or by some miracle they fix PSU "culture" of chai-biscoot and araam, so it's not a loss there.

They've already received partial EASA certification from the EU designated body which is mandatory from the safety PoV, Insurance as well as for making a sale. If HAL wasn't interested in going international they wouldn't have made this move for it's a pretty expensive exercise.

No clue if HAL has approached EASA for a full certification & the procedures as well as time taken for it. They should've applied for similar certification from the FAA in the US. Once again there's no news on this

However I think this is a scheme by Airbus to snipe the LUH with the ((( Users ))) fully cooperation by doing nakhra over it's FOC/Induction whatever, since they already will be having a plant before making any bid, they have an advantage over other imported maal vendors easily apart from being on equal footing with HAL assuming "domestic assembly" is the only requirement.

The services won't opt for it even if they can. Apart from everything else it doesn't meet their specifications. Rest assured, GoI won't permit it & herein lies the dichotomy of the approach.

OTOH it wants indigenisation & OTOH it wants to blindly promote MII without taking into consideration the ill effects this move would have on our own domestic product in the civilian aerospace market.

Hell this same Airbus ignored GoI's requests for setting up a FAL like they did in China for their passenger jet liners here for it didn't suit them . Why're we then encouraging such efforts by them when it doesn't suit us?

This is literal assembly btw, Engine and electronics from France, chassis from Germany and Tail-boom from Spain

That's what all these companies do in the initial stages. Once they acquire the desired market share which it will, they gradually move in for local production of other components & sub assemblies.