HAL unveils upgraded Hawk

Rolled out on January 26, the first Hawk-i is the 100th Hawk produced by HAL. The aircraft will be retained by the manufacturer for test purposes. HAL HINDUSTAN AERONAUTICS Limited (HAL) has completed the first example of the indigenously upgraded Hawk-i. Compared with the original Mk132, the Hawk-i features a HAL designed and developed mission computer and data transfer units. The new dual-redundant mission computer has additional functions, among them digital map generation, while the embedded virtual training system offers