SP’s Aviation - April 2018

Military offset

http://www.sps-aviation.com ISSUE 4 • 2018 17

engineering software

& services

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Bengaluru

Pune

TEchNIcaL PUbLIcaTIONS

Bengaluru

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Hyderabad

 Cyient

MRO

Delhi

 ligare aviation

Mumbai

 airworks

 taj air

Bengaluru

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Pune

 MM E-tech

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Bengaluru

 Capgemini india

 E2E

 iBM india

 safran

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service

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 steria india

 thales application

Center

 tata Consulting

services

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 WiPro

Chennai

 Jv l&t thales

Hyderabad

 Cyient

Mumbai

 l&t infotech

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permits the vendors to provide details of their Indian Offset

Partners (IOP) either at the time of seeking offset credits or

one year prior to discharge of offset obligations. Vendor/origi-

nal equipment manufacturers (OEM) is free to select his Indian

Offset Partner.”

The first slide, pertaining to airframe offsets and sourcing,

lists the Dassault-Reliance joint venture firm (DRAL) as being

part of a group of companies that will produce mechanical parts

and sub-assemblies. Other companies in this list include Indian

majors like L&T, the Mahindra Group, the Kalyani Group and

Godrej & Boyce.

Marked in red are joint venture companies that Dassault and

its partners have already incorporated in India, in part, to execute

the Rafale deal offsets. Apart from the Dassault Reliance JV, the

others include Snecma HAL Aerospace Ltd (SHAe) for aero-engine

components and Thales’s joint ventures with India’s SAMTEL for

multifunction cockpit displays. The new Thales-Reliance joint ven-

ture, named Thales Reliance Defence Systems (TRDS), not only

plans to build technologies for Rafales in India and worldwide,

but also says it will ‘develop Indian capabilities to integrate and

maintain radar and electronic warfare sensors’.

The details revealed by Livefist add substantially to the level

of detail of a conversation that has so far involved much politi-

cal cloak and dagger from both the government as well as the

opposition. The French President departed yesterday after a

four-day visit deemed mostly successful on the strategic front,

though India notably declined a specific request from the high-

est levels of the French government to send out a message,

while President Macron was in Delhi, that the two countries

were in discussions for 36 more Rafale jets.

Here’s more from the Rafale offsets plan and the Indian

companies that will be part of it. Rafale deliveries to the Indian

Air Force begin in September 2019. SP

More details on http://www.livefistdefence.com

Livefist is the blog/website by Shiv Aroor

SOfTwaRE & ENGINEERING

STRENGThENING TIES:

PriME MinistEr narEndra Modi With thE PrEsidEnt oF thE FrEnCh

rEPuBliC EMManuEl MaCron in nEW dElhi on MarCh 10, 2018

daSSaULT avIaTION facILITy: BordEaux-MérignaC, FranCE

PhotograPhs: PiB, dassault aviation