{"id":2957,"date":"2021-04-01T06:00:35","date_gmt":"2021-04-01T00:30:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/55nda.com\/blogs\/anil-khosla\/?p=2957"},"modified":"2024-12-27T15:37:04","modified_gmt":"2024-12-27T10:07:04","slug":"q-a-series-part-3-indigenisation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/55nda.com\/blogs\/anil-khosla\/2021\/04\/01\/q-a-series-part-3-indigenisation\/","title":{"rendered":"87: Q &#038; A Series (Part 3): INDIGENISATION"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; color: #000080;\">In various interactions questions are asked during the Q &amp; A session. Started this series on addressing\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: #000080; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18.6667px;\">these valid and interesting questions by\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: #000080; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18.6667px;\">giving my views and <\/span><span style=\"color: #000080; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">commenting on them.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; color: #800080;\"><u>RECENT QUERRY\u00a0 AND MY TAKE ON IT<\/u><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;\"><u>Question.<\/u>\u00a0Questions related to IAF and Atmanirbharta,\u00a0 Indigenisation and Make in India.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">Comments.<\/span><\/span><\/em><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; color: #000080;\">IAF has always encouraged the development of indigenous defence production. IAF firmly believes that indigenisation reduces our dependence on foreign sources and leads to economic growth of the nation. IAF always endeavours to achieve self-sufficiency through focused, sustained and evolved indigenisation programmes. It is one of the <em>key result areas<\/em> of the IAF.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Various Indigenised inductions and projects being supported are as follows:<\/span><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; color: #800000;\">Induction of LCA (IOC, FOC, Mk I and Mk 1A) and support to LCA Mk II and AMCA.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; color: #0000ff;\">Earlier Induction of Ajeet and HF-24 Marut ac.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; color: #993300;\">Induction of AEW&amp;C ac and support to indigenous AWACS project.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; color: #008080;\">Induction of ALH.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; color: #ff6600;\">Support to replacement of Avro ac through make in India route.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; color: #993366;\">Support to CIWS through make in India route.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; color: #008000;\">Induction and support to several indigenous radars. (Indra, Rohini, Arudhra and Long range surveillance radar).<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; color: #993366;\">Indigenous production of chaffs and flares, ammunitions and fuses for bombs.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; color: #003300;\">Integration of Astra Air to Air Missile and Brahmos Air to surface missiles.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; color: #003366;\">Support to weapons projects like New Generation Anti-tank Missile, Smart anti airfield weapons, new generation anti-radiation missile and Glide bombs etc.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; color: #333399;\">Induction of trainer aircraft (Kiran Mk I and Mk II, HT-2, HTT-40).<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; color: #ff0000;\">Induction of Akash SRSAM system and support to MRSAM and LRSAM projects.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Other efforts include:<\/span><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; color: #993300;\">Support to Aeronautical Development Agency and National Flight Test Centre.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; color: #000080;\">Identification of MSMEs for MRO (Maintenance, Repair and Overhaul) of military aviation equipment.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; color: #800080;\">Upgrades through indigenous route. Mig-29 upgrade by Base Repair Depot, Jaguar and M-2000 upgrade by HAL, AN-32 upgrade and Digitisation of Pechora SAM systems<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; color: #008000;\">Indigenisation of thousands of lines and spares.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; color: #800000;\">Creation of Nodal Technical Centres at BRDs and EDs to give impetus to innovation.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; color: #993366;\">Conducting regular seminars on indigenisation along with all the stake holders.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\">IAF has been many times accused of not supporting indigenisation with remarks like \u201cAir Marshals always want to play with foreign toys\u201d.<\/span> <\/span><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; color: #993300;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>This is far from the truth.<\/em><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 18pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #993366;\">Comments and value additions are most welcome<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 18pt; color: #0000ff;\">For regular updates please register here &#8211;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 18pt; color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/55nda.com\/blogs\/anil-khosla\/subscribe\/\">https:\/\/55nda.com\/blogs\/anil-khosla\/subscribe\/<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In various interactions questions are asked during the Q &amp; A session. Started this series on addressing\u00a0these valid and interesting questions by\u00a0giving my views and commenting on them. &nbsp; RECENT QUERRY\u00a0 AND MY TAKE ON IT &nbsp; Question.\u00a0Questions related to IAF and Atmanirbharta,\u00a0 Indigenisation and Make in India. &nbsp; Comments.\u00a0IAF has always encouraged the development &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/55nda.com\/blogs\/anil-khosla\/2021\/04\/01\/q-a-series-part-3-indigenisation\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;87: Q &#038; A Series (Part 3): INDIGENISATION&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[77,5,19,139,75,138,78,28,1],"tags":[6,140,141,47,8,38,142,30],"class_list":["post-2957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-airpower","category-article","category-atmanirbharta","category-iaf","category-indigenisation","category-military-capability","category-technology","category-uncategorized","tag-airpower","tag-atmanirbharta","tag-defence-industry","tag-defence-services","tag-iaf","tag-indian-air-force","tag-indigenisation","tag-technology"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/55nda.com\/blogs\/anil-khosla\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2957","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/55nda.com\/blogs\/anil-khosla\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/55nda.com\/blogs\/anil-khosla\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/55nda.com\/blogs\/anil-khosla\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/55nda.com\/blogs\/anil-khosla\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2957"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/55nda.com\/blogs\/anil-khosla\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2957\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8561,"href":"https:\/\/55nda.com\/blogs\/anil-khosla\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2957\/revisions\/8561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/55nda.com\/blogs\/anil-khosla\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/55nda.com\/blogs\/anil-khosla\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/55nda.com\/blogs\/anil-khosla\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}