The company will also demonstrate the LiteHUD Head-Up Display, the 40 Mk4 Air Defence Gun, the 57 Mk3 Naval Gun System and the Combat Vehicle 90 and BvS10 Beowulf vehicles.
According to the company, “We’re establishing a supply chain footprint that could do a minimum of forty percent of a future buy,” adding, “BAE Systems would like a request for a proposal for more Ultra-Lightweight Howitzers but we’d like to see a minimum of forty percent made in India.”
We examine lessons learned from the MMRCA contest and look at seven ways to derisk the process to prevent a repeat of the result in the earlier MMRCA competition.
Angad Singh and Pushan Das help StratPost editor Saurabh Joshi understand how the new IAF fighter contest will be different from the last one and why it will take two general elections before an order is placed.
Updated: MMRCA 2.0 will be a repeat of the MMRCA contest with the same six aircraft: F/A-18 Super Hornet Block III, MiG-35, F-16 Block 70, Gripen E, Eurofighter and Rafale.
Chief Procurement Officer Paul Smith told StratPost that identifying suppliers for offsets for the Indian M777 artillery order is only a small part of their USD 12 billion global supply chain requirement.
Dismissal of these criminal charges, however, does not mean Rheinmetall would be able to do business with the defense ministry.
Find out what’s new in the Advanced Hawk as Dave Corfield of BAE Systems takes us around the aircraft at Aero India 2017.
The Indian Army will receive the first BAE Systems M777 lightweight howitzer within six months from today and all 145 guns have to be delivered within 52 months.
BAE Systems and the U.S. government will deliver 25 M777 Ultra Light Howitzers off the shelf, while a further 120 will be assembled in India with Indian partner Mahindra.
The delayed approval for the acquisition of the M-777 ULH means that India will have to bear a much higher price because of the weaker rupee.
BAE Systems has figured out a way to convert unguided 70 mm rockets into guided weapons, typically onboard attack helicopters, with a component that has a tongue-twisting acronym.
