Bangalore: Hindustan Aeronautics today entered into an agreement for a Multirole Transport Aircraft project with its Russian partner United Aircraft Corporation— Transport Aircraft (UAC-TA).
The preliminary design phase contract was signed with UAC-TA, the Russian partner and their JV-Multirole Transport Aircraft Ltd for the Multirole Transport Aircraft project, Hindustan Aeronautics (HAL) said in a statement.
The agreement is a follow on contract of the General Contract signed between the three parties in May 2012, it said.
"With this HAL and UAC-TA will start the preliminary design work immediately at Moscow. HAL design team consisting of 30 designers will be positioned at UAC-TA", HAL Chairman R K Tyagi said.
The primary objective of the project is to achieve self reliance in design, development and production of aircraft of this size and also to manage the programme with international collaboration and large number of global suppliers, he added.
12/10/12 PTI/Business Standard
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The preliminary design phase contract was signed with UAC-TA, the Russian partner and their JV-Multirole Transport Aircraft Ltd for the Multirole Transport Aircraft project, Hindustan Aeronautics (HAL) said in a statement.
The agreement is a follow on contract of the General Contract signed between the three parties in May 2012, it said.
"With this HAL and UAC-TA will start the preliminary design work immediately at Moscow. HAL design team consisting of 30 designers will be positioned at UAC-TA", HAL Chairman R K Tyagi said.
The primary objective of the project is to achieve self reliance in design, development and production of aircraft of this size and also to manage the programme with international collaboration and large number of global suppliers, he added.
12/10/12 PTI/Business Standard
