Hindustan Aeronautics Limited’s (HAL) HJT-36 Sitara Intermediate Jet Trainer (IJT) has started spin testing following extensive work to rectify earlier issues with this area of the flight envelope, last year and initial results seem to be promising for the HAL to believe that the aircraft could enter production by 2024-25…
The defence public sector undertaking Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) has been badly hit by the pandemic, which has claimed the lives of at least 100 of its employees, infected 4,000 others, and affected crucial defence projects, like the Light Combat Aircraft (LCA) Tejas and Light Combat Helicopter (LCH). HAL Chairman and Managing Director R…
The Indian Navy inducted three indigenously built advanced light helicopters (ALH) MK II on Monday. The induction ceremony of 322 Dega Flight was held in the presence of Vice-Admiral Ajendra Bahadur Singh, Flag Officer Commanding-in-Chief, Eastern Naval Command (ENC), with the three ALHs flying into Naval Air Station, INS Dega,…
The Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) has developed single-crystal blades that are used in chopper engines and it has supplied 60 of them to the Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) for the company’s indigenous helicopter development program, an official statement said on Monday. Single crystal blades having complex shapes and geometry are manufactured out…
Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) is known for manufacturing HF-24 Marut (“Spirit of the Tempest”) which is India’s first indigenous fighter bomber. It is also the first Asian jet fighter (outside Russia/Soviet Union) to go beyond the test phase and into successful production and active service.…
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