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AEROINDIA 2023: Impressions & Inferences (Aims and Focus)

 

 

Theme

 “The Runway to a Billion Opportunities”

 

  1. Has Aero India come of age?

 

    • Yes

 

    • From a humble beginning in 1996 to the fourteenth show this year.

 

    • From an airshow it has transformed into a massive business opportunity.

 

    • It is the biggest air show in Asia and at par with air shows across the world.

 

    • 800+ companies participating (700 Indian and about 110 foreign).

 

    • Visit and participation of Defence Ministers of 32 countries, Air Chiefs of 29 countries and 73 Chief Executive Officers of global and Indian original equipment manufacturers.

 

    • About five lakh visitors are expected to attend the event in person and millions more will connect through television and the internet.

 

    • All the major defence equipment producers of the world are taking part.

 

    • The major exhibitors include Airbus, Boeing, Dassault Aviation, Lockheed Martin, Israel Aerospace Industry, BrahMos Aerospace, Army Aviation, HC Robotics, SAAB, Safran, Rolls Royce, Larsen & Toubro, Bharat Forge Limited, Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL), Bharat Electronics Limited (BEL), Bharat Dynamics Limited (BDL) and BEML Limited, the statement read.

 

 

2. What is different this year from previous shows.

  • Last year participation was restricted and much lesser due to the Pandemic. This year it is on a much larger scale.

 

  • India’s thrust is on “Atmanirbharta / Self-reliance / Make in India”.

 

  • The emphasis is on:-
    • Make in India.

 

    • Enhancing export.

 

    • Joint ventures and co-production.

 

    • Technology transfer.

 

    • Make for the world (India as a cheaper and better option).

 

  • Foreign companies are also making their offers and sales pitch with this in mind.

 

  • The Indian displays (Air display, static display and stalls) are showcasing Indigenous platforms, systems and weapons.

 

 

3. What is the aim and focus of this year’s airshow?

 

  • To promote self-reliance in defence production.

 

  • Accelerate the process of transformation from biggest defence importer to arms exporter (according to media reports already exporting defence equipment to 75 countries).

 

  • Showcase and promote India as a manufacturing hub.

 

  •  The focus is on forging partnerships with foreign companies, in line with the ‘Make in India, Make for the World’ vision.

 

  • The event aims to integrate domestic MSMEs and startups in the global supply chain and attract foreign investments including partnerships for co-development and co-production.

 

  • The focus is to display indigenous equipment/technologies.

 

  • The event aims to promote the export of indigenous air platforms like Light Combat Aircraft (LCA)-Tejas, HTT-40, Dornier Light Utility Helicopter (LUH), Light Combat Helicopter (LCH) and Advanced Light Helicopter (ALH).

 

Expectation

Conclusion of 250+ MoUs (worth ₹75,000 crores) is expected to be finalised during Aero India 2023. 

 

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TIDBITS

1.

CHINA’S WAY OF THINKING

 

Communist Chinese politics are a lugubrious merry-go-round … and in order to appreciate fully the déjà-vu quality of its latest convolutions, you would need to have watched it revolve for half a century. The main problem with many of our politicians and pundits is that their memories are too short, thus forever preventing them from putting events and personalities in a true historical perspective.

— Simon Leys quoted in Watching China Watching
China Heritage, 2018

 

Comments:

China thinks and plans long-term.

One needs to decipher her grand design.

The response should be appropriate, keeping the big picture in mind, and not a knee-jerk reaction.

 

2.

INDIA DEPLOYS PLATOON OF WOMEN PEACEKEEPERS IN UN MISSION IN ABYEI

 

This will be so far, India’s largest single unit of women Peacekeepers in a UN Mission. The Indian contingent, comprising two officers and 25 other ranks, will form part of an engagement platoon and specialise in community outreach and will be performing extensive security-related tasks as well

 

Comments:

In 2007, India became the first country to deploy an all-women contingent to a UN peacekeeping mission in Liberia.

India is one of the largest troop-contributing countries to UN peacekeeping.

As of October 31, 2022, India is the second largest contributor to UN peacekeeping missions with 5887 troops and personnel deployed across 12 missions, after Bangladesh (7,017).

 

3.

AIRCRAFT CARRIERS (USA Vis-à-vis China)

 

USA. There are only 47 active aircraft carriers in the world and the US Navy has 11 of them, with displacement tonnage nearly as many as all other countries combined. The US Navy’s large nuclear-powered fleet carriers carry around 80 fighters each and are the largest carriers in the world. The total combined deck space is more than double of all other nations combined.

 

China. As of 2022, the PLAN has two combat-ready aircraft carriers, the Liaoning and Shandong, with the third, Fujian, China’s third and most advanced aircraft carrier, being fitted out. The Fujian is equipped with advanced electromagnetic catapults, similar to those on the US supercarrier USS Gerald R Ford, while China’s first two carriers featured ski-jump designs. China’s only ship-borne fighter jet, the twin-engine single-seat J-15 Flying Shark, is the world’s heaviest carrier-borne fighter.

 

Comments:

Numerically, the Chinese navy has overtaken the US navy.

China is building its expeditionary capability.

On achieving expeditionary capability, China will redefine its theatres.

 

4.

US TO SEND UKRAINE NEARLY $3 BILLION IN MILITARY AID

(Including dozens of Bradley vehicles)

 

A new U.S. weapons package for Ukraine will include about 50 Bradley Fighting Vehicles.

The armoured vehicle manufactured by BAE Systems has a powerful gun. The vehicle has been used by the U.S. Army to carry troops around battlefields since the mid-1980s.

 

Comments:

The United States has sent about $21.3 billion in assistance to Ukraine.

The US Army is to retire its Bradley fleet and is working with industry to build a replacement as it seeks to modernize.

The USA is dumping military equipment, it doesn’t need anymore.

USA continues to add fuel to the fire.

 

5.

SANCTIONS ARE NOT MISSILES

 

The misapprehension of what sanctions against Russia would accomplish can be explained in part by unrealistic expectations of what economic measures can do. Simply put, they are not the equivalent of a missile strike.

 

Comments:

Sanctions do not deter aggression.

The effect of sanctions take longer to work their way through the economy.

In the long run, sanctions can weaken the economy and lower GDP.

 

 

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