Speaking astir exports, D K Sunil, Chairman and Managing Director, HAL, said HAL was continuing efforts with existing lawsuit Guyana and was besides successful interaction with Malaysia for the Dornier aircraft. (Express Photo/Jithendra M)
Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL), India’s largest aerospace and defence manufacturer, said connected Tuesday that it would person an bid publication of Rs 2.5 lakh crore successful the adjacent six months, driven by expectations of 2 large orders.
Addressing a property conscionable connected the sidelines of the biennial Aero India 2025 amusement astatine Bengaluru’s Yelahanka Air Force Station, D K Sunil, Chairman and Managing Director, HAL, said the bid publication maturation would marque the institution 1 of the starring players successful South Asia.
“The institution has received orders worthy Rs 55,000 crore successful the archetypal 9 months of the fiscal twelvemonth and is expecting to adjacent orders worthy different Rs 1.2 lakh crore successful the adjacent 5 to six months. Including the contiguous orders, the full orders volition beryllium worthy Rs 2.5 lakh crore and the accumulation volition proceed for the adjacent 5-6 years,” helium said.
“We are actively pursuing 2 large contracts. One is for 97 airy combat craft (Tejas) and 156 airy combat helicopters (Prachanda). Both are successful the precocious stages of negotiations. We are hoping to adjacent them successful the adjacent 5-6 months,” helium added.
“We person ramped up accumulation lines to conscionable the requirements. Three units for manufacturing LCAs (light combat aircraft), 2 successful Bengaluru and 1 successful Nashik, Maharashtra, person been acceptable up. With these 3 units, we people to manufacture 26 craft by 2026. We person besides partnered with backstage players similar Tatas and L&T to summation our accumulation capacity,” helium further said.
Speaking astir exports, Sunil said that HAL was continuing efforts with existing lawsuit Guyana and was besides successful interaction with Malaysia for the Dornier aircraft. “We are besides successful talks with the Philippines and North America. HAL is spending Rs 2,500 crore connected probe and improvement each twelvemonth to amended and upgrade its products. Presently, Tejas and airy combat chopper productions person taken HAL to caller heights. In the adjacent decade, LCA-2, Indian multirole helicopters, fifth-generation precocious mean combat aircraft, on with newer products similar UCAPs, volition pb HAL’s bid publication growth,” helium added.