Airbus has made a significant move in India by leasing over 650,000 square feet of office space in Bangalore's Whitefield area to establish its Global Capability Center (GCC). The deal, valued at more than $60.2 million, involves a 10-year lease at Titanium Tech Park, with options for both space expansion...
Boeing to Produce Apache Helicopters in JV with Tata
Boeing has partnered with India's Tata Advanced Systems to create a manufacturing center to produce aero-structures for the AH-64 Apache helicopter, and for the development and selling of integrated systems. India's Ministry of Defense is ordering a number of Apache's for military needs. Boeing and the Tata group companies have...
India to Float Tender for 100 Naval Utility Vehicles
Defense-Aerospace reports that eleven of India’s private sector companies among which are Tata Advanced Systems, Bharat Forge, Mahindra Aerospace, Reliance Defense & Aerospace and L&T, have responded with proposed joint ventures for the co-development of three types of foreign helicopters - AS565 MBe of Airbus, Bell Helicopters-429 and Super Lynx...
Light Utility Helicopter Competition Ties Foreign, Indian players
In India's first helicopter competition reserved for domestic defense companies to produce a light utility helicopter (LUH), Larsen & Toubro has teamed up with Airbus Helicopters; Tata Advanced Systems with Sikorsky Aircraft; Mahindra Defense Systems with Bell Helicopter; and Punj Lloyd with Russian Helicopters. State-owned Hindustan Aeronautics also is negotiating...
Lockheed Makes Tail for Transport Aircraft in India
Phil Shaw, chief executive of Lockheed Martin India told Defenseworld.net that tail sections of C-130 aircraft for Lockheed Martin’s global customers are being made in India at the joint venture facility they have with Tata Advanced Systems in Hyderabad. He further commented that if international companies treated their 100% owned...
American President's Helicopter Cabin: Made in India
Every American sees video images of the President waving to the press and others as he boards Marine One at the White House, on his way to Camp David or elsewhere. The helicopters labelled Marine One are actually made by United Technologies' Sikorsky unit and now they will have India...