The Hindu Business Line : HAL gets first shipment of Hawk production tools

The shipment is the first batch of tooling and test equipment to be supplied by BAE Systems for licensed production of the Hawk Mk132 airframe and engine in India, according to a statement from BAE Systems.

India has ordered 66 Hawk advanced jet trainers. Of these, 24 are being supplied `ready to fly', 6 are delivered in kits and 42 will be built by HAL.

More than 3,000 tools will be sent to Bangalore during the next 18 months, along with kit sets and raw materials for airframes and engines. This is a complex logistical operation during which tooling and aircraft hardware will be shipped to India for the production of 42 Hawks at HAL under licence from BAE Systems. This element of the Hawk for India programme is the biggest logistics exercise carried out by BAE Systems for many years.

To facilitate it a 36,000-sq.ft outbound logistics centre has been set up at the company's Brough site in the UK.

Mr Mike Swales, Head of Offshore Logistics, said: "The contract is a massive logistical task for the Hawk team. It is some time since we have been involved in a programme of this complexity. The BAE Systems team in India comprises 13 people who manage all of our offshore business and this will grow to 20 people later in the year as we start major deliveries."

Throughout the Hawk for India programme, engineers from both BAE Systems and engine supplier Rolls Royce will be based in Bangalore to provide technical on-site assistance to the HAL engineers.

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