Global defence firm Saab signs MoU with HAL for laser warning system

Saab, a starring defence and information company, has signed an statement with Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) for a laser informing system, the planetary steadfast has said.

The statement builds connected a "strong concern betwixt Saab successful South Africa and HAL" that began successful 2005 during the improvement of the Advanced Light Helicopter programme, Saab said successful a statement.

"Saab has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) to collaborate connected the Electronic Warfare onshore Laser Warning System-310 (LWS-310)," it said.

The MoU provides for a "Maintenance Transfer of Technology, which aligns with the Indian Defence Procurement Procedure truthful that HAL volition summation the capableness to manufacture LWS-310 wrong India," the institution added.

This includes mounting up indispensable infrastructure, and grooming programmes and transferring "technical expertise" from Saab to HAL to guarantee semipermanent enactment for the system.

State-run HAL is based successful Bengaluru.

"This MoU reflects Saab's committedness to localisation and indigenisation successful India by identifying and utilising an Indian company. This ensures the longevity of the information of proviso successful supporting the Indian equipped forces," Mats Palmberg, the president and managing manager of Saab India, was quoted arsenic saying successful the statement.

"With accelerated menace informing and menace classification, LWS-310 enables a combat absorption strategy to employment effectual countermeasures against laser threats, which further increases situational consciousness and self-protection capabilities for combat vehicles," it said.