HINDUSTAN AERONAUTICS LIMITED (HAL)

Aug. 5, 2018

To prevent time & cost overruns in aircraft projects, Government has decided to hand over the control of the aircraft manufacturing division, Bengaluru of the HAL to the Indian Air Force (IAF).

About:

  • Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) is an Indian state-owned aerospace and defence company under the Ministry of Defence.

  • Key aircrafts developed by it: Light Combat Aircraft Tejas and Dhruv helicopters.

  • HQ:

  • Founded in:

  • HAL has faced criticism for lack of professionalism in project execution. Thus the recent move has been taken to prevent more time and cost overruns on the indigenous Light Combat Aircraft (LCA) project and to prevent the same in upcoming projects like
    • next phase of the LCA project,

    • development of the MK2 variant and

    • country’s next fighter aircraft programme, the Advanced Medium Combat Aircraft (AMCA).



Source : The Hindu

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