Military offset
16 ISSUE 4 • 2018 http://www.sps-aviation.com
‘Make in India’ elements of the Rafale deal stand revealed for the
first time. The details that follow pertain principally to the Rafale
platform itself, and doesn’t include the
$1-billion partnership between France’s
Safran and India’s Defence Research and
Development Organisation (DRDO) for the
Kaveri turbofan engine, a major thrust
area for both countries that will also count
in the offsets programme.
The details below reveal that Rafale
has so far forged partnerships with at least
72 firms for industrial sourcing areas that
span, among other Dassault platforms,
the Rafale’s airframe, its Snecma M
engines, radar, electronic warfare and
avionics, aeronautical components, engi-
neering and software. The slides below
indicate that Dassault and its partners are
in negotiations with tens more firms for offsets opportunities. This,
in effect, is the first specific and overall sense of what Indian firms
will bring to the table on the Rafale.
This first overview of an offsets execu-
tion plan is especially of interest, given that
India’s offsets policies are widely regarded
by international vendors and governments
as convoluted, self-defeating, or, in the words
of one prominent CEO, “a godawful mess”.
In Parliament India’s junior defence
minister Subhash Bhamre said, “The quan-
tum of offsets in the Inter-Governmental
Agreement (IGA) for 36 Rafale fighter jets
is 50 per cent, which includes investments
in terms of Transfer of Technology (ToT)
for manufacture and maintenance of eli-
gible products and services. The current
offsets policy of the Defence Procurement
radar, ew and avionics
integration
aeronautical coMponents
& equipMent
new delhi
nagpur
hyderabad
Bengaluru
new delhi
hyderabad
Bengaluru
Coimbatore
RadaR, Ew & dISPLay
Bengaluru
BEl
BEl-thales Jv
Delhi
samtel thales Jv
Nagpur
reliance thales Jv
GROUNd SUPPORT EQUIPMENT
Bengaluru
iCaM
sidhi vinayaka
sika aerospace
data Pattern
Hyderabad
raghu vamsi
Gurugram
horizon
SIMULaTOR SERvIcES
Gurugram
horizon
TEST bENchES
Bengaluru
axiscades
aviohelitronics
BEl
hCl
l&t spectrum
accESSORIES
Cabinet
Bengaluru
sFo
hiCal-nsE
axon dhruz
screws, rivets
Bengaluru
ankit Fasterners
tubes
Bengaluru
sts titeflex india
Wiring
Bengaluru
amphenol interconnect
india - sefee division
axon dhruz
radiall india
Hyderabad
safran Electrical &
Power india
ELEcTRONIc bOaRdS
Bengaluru
Centrum Electronics
sFo
Hyderabad
astra Microwave
Cyient
13 Allocated 14 Allocated / 2 under construction
The details reveal
that Rafale has so far
forged partnerships
with at least 72 firms
and Dassault and
its partners are in
negotiations with
tens more firms for
offsets opportunities