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Airlines Government - Security BAE supplies final Hawk trainer to IAF Our Bureau Bangalore, Nov. 8 British military aircraft major BAE Systems said it had delivered the 24th and final UK-built Hawk trainer aircraft to the IAF. BAE’s test pilots flew the aircraft, HT001, to Air Force Station Bidar in northern Karnataka, where the rest of the 23 Hawk advanced jet trainers are stationed. Starting with the first Hawk that was delivered to the IAF in November 2007, BAE said it had completed most of its deliveries in 2008. The Ministry of Defence purchased 66 Hawk AJTs for the IAF from BAE in a Rs 8,000-crore deal signed in 2004. BAE was to build and supply 24 of them, while domestic defence major Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd is making the other 42 at its Bangalore facility under a BAE licence, with its kits. HAL delivered the first of its 42 Hawks in August 2008 and has said the others would be given by 2011. Mr Michael Christie, Senior Vice-President, India for BAE Systems Military Air Solutions, said, “This marks the completion of aircraft deliveries by BAE Systems to IAF. We continue to provide support services to the IAF and work closely with our industrial partner, HAL, in meeting the fast jet training needs of the [IAF].” The jet trainers are meant to replace the old Russian MiG-21s – called ‘flying coffins’. Some 100 of them have crashed in the past decade, killing 180 trainee pilots. More Stories on : Airlines | Security
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