No. Hal need capital for long term planing and to sustain a right level of R&D or strategic investment.

A public company (owned in full or  in majority) by the gov is not an administration.

Administrations don’t build planes, even in India. 

It’s quite a story by itself to say the least. From $9 billions downto 5+ and gov deep scrutiny into Hal commercial practices, we have there something atypical.

As an example, why wouldn’t Hal make a profit on sensitive foreign items it has helped secured for import? 

So, as an example, if tomorrow I have the opportunity to sale  luxurious imported corporate  cars to the Indian governement, I would have to do so for free?! 

In many WTO countries, any items or service procured can’t be re-offered without a margin. It’s normal business practice that helps to  fight corruption and keep a sane accountability. 

From Scramble.nl on FB:

Hornets and ski-jump testing 

According to Boeing’s Vice President Thom Breckenridge, the company is planning ski-jump testing for the F/A-18 Super Hornet. This claim was made by the vice president at the DefExpo 2020, which is being held at Lucknow (state of Uttar Pradesh) and is directly related to a possible future Bharatiya Nau Sena (Indian Navy) contract for the Super Hornet.

The Indian Navy uses STOBAR (short take-off but arrested recovery) at her aircraft carriers, whereas the US Navy uses CATOBAR (catapult take-off but arrested recovery). The Indian Navy aircraft carriers, INS Vikramaditya and the under-construction carrier, use STOBAR technology by using a ski-jump ramp.

The Indian Navy had issued a Request for Information (RFI) in 2018 for 57 fighter aircraft, intended as day-and-night capable, all-weather, multi-role, deck-based combat aircraft which can be used for air defence, air-to-surface operations, buddy refueling, reconnaissance etc. from IN aircraft carriers. Competitors for this contract are the Dassault Rafale (France), Boeing F/A-18 Super Hornet (USA), MiG-29K (Russia) and the Saab 39 Gripen (Sweden). Scramble Magazine assesses that a twin-engined aircraft will be favored for this role.

Boeing will be conducting their first test-launches of the F/A-18 Super Hornet from a shore-based ski jump in the United States as the culmination of a long-standing message to the Indian Navy that the American aircraft would be compatible with Indian aircraft carriers. Most probably these tests will be performed at Naval Air Station (NAS) Patuxent River (MD), where Lockheed Martin used the ski jump for refining this manoeuvre for the F-35B Lightning IIs operating from the Royal Navy’s new Queen Elizabeth class (QEC) aircraft carriers.

Photo credit: US Navy

New search area after refined statistical analysis:

 

Search Area Based on No Pilot Inputs

Assuming there were no pilot inputs after 19:41, the uncertainties in the POI are summarized in Table 1. The 1-σ uncertainty along the 7th arc is 19.2 NM, and 16.3 NM normal to the 7th arc.

Table 1. Summary of POI Uncertainties Assuming No Pilot Inputs

To achieve a confidence level of 98% requires searching an area defined by ±2.3-σ limits, with the BE at its center. Based on this, the recommended area is 91 NM × 74 NM, and the total area is 6,719 NM2, or 23,050 km2. This area is depicted as A1 in Figure 4.

Figure 4. Search recommendation, showing areas A1, A2, and A

https://mh370.radiantphysics.com/2020/02/01/search-recommendation-for-mh370s-debris-field/

The new search area is only a fraction of what have been already searched and bank on previous analysis results. 

It’s Safran that made the Rafale M landing gear… Not Dassault. 

PS: Hurra! Edit function works again! 

B/w the E and the T-X, I wonder if Saab is not de-facto the most prolific European fighter manufacturer of this next decade  (even if we count only 1/3rd airframe per T-X to be built) .

 Proof to me that subsidied are counter-productive… 

Blue Angels soon to go Super:

https://www.businessinsider.com/blue-angels-boss-explains-how-demo-team…