CATEGORIES

Rotary-wing Platforms of the Future
SP’s Aviation

Rotary-wing Platforms of the Future

While designers pursue technologies related to speed, range, performance and survivability of rotary-wing platforms, the military looks at designs that provide battlefield survivability and mission accomplishment.

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9 mins  |
March 2017
Flying Fast Towards Its Destination
SP’s Aviation

Flying Fast Towards Its Destination

Embraer has been extending its reach with airliners, thanks to the benefits the airliners see in the E-Jet E2 family.

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5 mins  |
March 2017
All is not well!
SP’s Aviation

All is not well!

While the Regional Connectivity Scheme unfolds gradually, one has to wait and watch how this is going to impact the mainline players and the regional players, including general aviation operators

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6 mins  |
March 2017
Large Orders, That's a Real Leap
SP’s Aviation

Large Orders, That's a Real Leap

The LEAP delivers 15 per cent improvement in fuel consumption, compared to today’s best CFM56 engines and maintains the same level of dispatch reliability and life-cycle maintenance costs.

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5 mins  |
March 2017
Focus On Indigenisation
SP’s Aviation

Focus On Indigenisation

In a rare media interaction with SP’s Aviation, Ashok Kumar Gupta, Secretary, Defence Production, outlined his vision for defence manufacturing in India and addressed a wide range of subjects including ‘Make in India’, DPP 2016, defence offsets, role of DPSUs, investment in R&D, delays in procurement decisions, blacklisting and other related issues.

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5 mins  |
February 2017
Make In India : Quo Vadis?
SP’s Aviation

Make In India : Quo Vadis?

Only with a major overhaul of the bureaucratic establishment and the government machinery as a whole, will the highly mechanised lion representing the spirit of the ‘Make in India’ campaign, begin to roar!

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5 mins  |
February 2017
Need Adequate Funding
SP’s Aviation

Need Adequate Funding

Owing to complexities of the Defence Procurement Procedure and paucity of funds, the list of assets required by the IAF to replace those approaching obsolescence, has only been growing.

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4 mins  |
April 2018
“F/A-18 Super Hornet For India: Multi-Role, Combat Tested And Built For The Future”
SP’s Aviation

“F/A-18 Super Hornet For India: Multi-Role, Combat Tested And Built For The Future”

In this interview, Boeing India President Pratyush Kumar talks to SP’s Aviation and shares his perspective on why India should seriously consider the F/A-18 Super Hornet for its fighter requirements and how it would achieve the dual purposes of providing capability to the warfighters and industrial capability to build India’s aerospace industry.

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6 mins  |
April 2018
French President Visit Re-Energises Ties
SP’s Aviation

French President Visit Re-Energises Ties

France is the first country in the Western world to have forged a strategic partnership with India despite the undercurrents of India’s nuclear tests in Pokhran in May 1998

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7 mins  |
April 2018
combat preparedness of the iaf
sp’s aviation

combat preparedness of the iaf

the present state of combat preparedness of the indian air force is not adequate to successfully execute air operations on two fronts simultaneously.

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5 mins  |
september 2016
rafale spin-offs will matter
sp’s aviation

rafale spin-offs will matter

“what matters is the result: an agreement that paves the way for unprecedented industrial and technological cooperation between our two countries, including the ‘make in india’ in which french companies will be fully involved.”

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september 2016