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After three years of operations, Mahindra and Mahindra and its foreign partner BAE Systems have announced a review of their joint venture in India to see if it needs any change to address issues concerning an evolving market. "Since the establishment in 2009 of the Mahindra and Mahindra and BAE Systems Joint Venture, Defence Land Systems India (DLSI), both shareholders recognise that significant evolution has occurred in the Indian Land Systems market," their joint statement said. "Developments in both the industry environment and in customer procurement frameworks and acquisition strategies have led the shareholders to institute a strategic review of the business," they said.
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A total of 16 Hawk advanced jet trainer aircraft were grounded owing to the paucity of spares, Defence Minister A K Antony told the Lok Sabha. “A total of 16 Hawks are AOG (aircraft on ground) as on date for want of spares (rotables). Affected spares have been dispatched to vendors (HAL and BAE) for repair,” Antony said. In 2004, India had entered into a contract with UK-based BAE Systems for 66 Hawks. The rest of 42 Hawks are being manufactured under licence from BAE by the Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd (HAL) in Bangalore.
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India's Defence public sector undertaking Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) has issued a tender to British aerospace major BAE Systems for a potential order for supplying products and services for building an additional 20 Hawk Advanced Jet Trainers (AJTs). These 20 of these AJTs will go to the Indian Air Force's (IAF) Surya Kiran aerobatics team that was recently temporarily disbanded after its Kiran MkII planes were diverted towards rookie pilots training. The AJTs will replace the fleet of indigenous, HAL-built Kiran MkII of Surya Kiran when they are finally supplied by 2015. The 20-plane order, expected to be worth over $500 million, is the third Hawk order placed by India on BAE Systems in the last eight years.
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After scrapping a tender worth USD one billion to procure 180 self-propelled howitzers, the Indian Army has initiated a fresh process in this regard. The tender was cancelled recently following complaints of snags in the guns of one of the two companies in the race for the deal, sources said here. The two companies in the race included Konstrukta of Slovakia and Rheinmetall of Germany. After the cancellation of the tender, the Army has initiated a fresh process to procure the guns and issued a global request for Information (RFI) in this regard late last month. "Indian Army is planning to procure wheeled self-propelled artillery howitzers and we have sought details from global manufacturers in this regard," Army officials said here.
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The second of the eight Boeing P-8I long-range maritime reconnaissance and anti-submarine warfare aircraft being built for the Indian Navy has completed its initial flight. The P-8I is a derivative of the Boeing Next-Generation 737-800 commercial airplane, and was tested on July 12, the company said in a statement on Tuesday. Boeing had successfully tested the first of the eight aircraft earlier this month. "The programme is on plan and the Indian Navy is excited for the P-8I to join its fleet," said Leland Wight, P-8I programme manager for Boeing.
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