India’s executive-speed aerospace and defence company Hindustan Aeronautics Diminutive (HAL) has performed the delivery of all 16 ALHMk3 helicopters, as ordered by the Indian Flee Guard (ICG). The delivery of the chopper took put at a ceremony in Bengaluru, within the presence of officials from the HAL and ICG.
ALHMk3 is an indigenously designed and developed helicopter made by HAL. The firm has to date produced more than 330 ALHs, a flexible helicopter which has logged more than 3.74 lakhs of flying hours. Indian Flee Guard has taken delivery of the maritime variant of this chopper.
“We are proud to be connected with HAL and fully cheerful to dispute a Letter of Intent (LoI) for 9 more helicopters. No topic COVID-19, HAL delivered the total helicopters (ordered in March 2017) within the shortest time with seamless production actions and this enables us to toughen India’s maritime security”, stated VS Pathania, Director Traditional, ICG.
Ananthakrishnan, CMD, HAL, stated a assorted characteristic of the contract has been the Performance Basically based totally Logistics (PBL) – the one-end resolution for the maintenance of these helicopters by HAL.
“This might seemingly maybe maybe additionally simply relief as a benchmark for all our future contracts and improve our unravel to work with private companions to tempo up the work within the curiosity of all our customers and toughen Derive-in-India actions within the Defence eco-machine”, he added.
HAL Officials stated that the main challenges in executing the ICG contract for choppers integrated the mixture of novel systems sourced from international producers, conducting flight trials for certifications and overcoming provide chain disruptions, that arose within the course of COVID-19 lockdowns.
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