SP’s Aviation - April 2018

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