Ministry of Defence signs Rs 2,312 crore contract with HAL for 8 Dornier 228 aircraft

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The Defence Ministry on Thursday said it has signed a contract with Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) for the acquisition of eight Dornier 228 aircraft along with operational role equipment for the Indian Coast Guard (ICG) for Rs 2,312 crore.

The order is expected to generate significant direct and indirect employment by strengthening the HAL’s production ecosystem and supporting a broad network of MSMEs and ancillary industries.

It will also create sustained opportunities in Maintenance, Repair & Overhaul and life cycle technical support, according to an official statement.

The contract was signed under the Buy (Indian) category in the presence of Defence Secretary Rajesh Kumar Singh. The contract reinforces the government’s commitment to Aatmanirbhar Bharat and ‘Make in India’ while bolstering India’s maritime security architecture.

HAL on Thursday reported a strong financial performance for the December quarter of the current financial year (Q3 FY26) as the defence public sector company posted a 29.6 per cent year-on-year rise in its consolidated net profit. Its profit after tax for the quarter stood at Rs 1,866.66 crore, compared to Rs 1,439.79 crore in the same period last financial year (Q3 FY25), according to an exchange filing.

Meanwhile, India is gearing up to give its aerospace ambitions a big push with a massive investment of about Rs 65,400 crore ($7.44 billion) to develop and produce fighter jet engines by 2035. The plan aims to make India self-reliant in one of the most critical areas of defence -- aircraft propulsion, according to reports.

The project marks a strong step towards reducing dependence on imports and building engines that can power the next generation of Indian fighter jets. From the advanced Tejas Mk2 to the stealthy AMCA, and from upgraded fighters to unmanned aircraft, India plans to build around 1,100 engines in the next decade.

For the first time, India is inviting private companies to participate in fighter jet development, opening new opportunities for innovation and growth in the aerospace sector. Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) will work alongside private and global players to share the workload and boost production.
 
Boosting profit of HAL is so misplaced priorities!
Mandate of HAL to service orders on time and with best quality. HAL should be dismantled and turned into facilitator and consulting role only. Govt have no business of manufacturing as its universally flop show.
 
Boosting profit of HAL is so misplaced priorities!
Mandate of HAL to service orders on time and with best quality. HAL should be dismantled and turned into facilitator and consulting role only. Govt have no business of manufacturing as its universally flop show.
"HAL should be dismantled and turned into facilitator and consulting role only"
If countries like China and Israel had listened to illiterate and clownish ideas like yours, They wouldn't have AVIC(and its n number of subsidiaries that have managed to reverse engineer ) and IAI(Which India is still buying from).
Do You even know WHY private companies are often kept away from strategic industries ? What India needs is structural and operational reforms starting at the ministerial level down to the local -production centres(Like the Chinese continously did for ALL their SOEs which themselves were placed under SASAC) with clear foreward thinking objectives but with flexible methods to achieve them, not juvenile "hame pributization chuhiye".
 
"HAL should be dismantled and turned into facilitator and consulting role only"
If countries like China and Israel had listened to illiterate and clownish ideas like yours, They wouldn't have AVIC(and its n number of subsidiaries that have managed to reverse engineer ) and IAI(Which India is still buying from).
Do You even know WHY private companies are often kept away from strategic industries ? What India needs is structural and operational reforms starting at the ministerial level down to the local -production centres(Like the Chinese continously did for ALL their SOEs which themselves were placed under SASAC) with clear foreward thinking objectives but with flexible methods to achieve them, not juvenile "hame pributization chuhiye".
China is communist country so dont compare Chinese firm to Indian firm.
its like compairing SC/ST/OBC mad house with IAS officer in their final penultimate retirement years with no ownership of project or product.
Chinese model of mil-industrial complex is in completely different dimension.
Indian mil-industrial complex based on employment scheme of MNREGA style to offer employment.
Russian and Chinese work by dedicated, patroitic and lean and mean machine to innovate and iterate to reach desired goal! By hook or crook.
Such ferver and zeal in Indian govt employees, no way ! on scale of 1-10, we are at 1 or 2 max while Chinese/Russian mindset at 9-10.
my friend in worked in this eco-system so i have front seat experience of their mindset and professionalism.

only way forward is privatisation and these Disneyworld utopian wishful thinking of your kind is joke and very expensive to poor tax payers.
till date foot soliders are donning PATAKA helmat not proper modern helmat. thank god INSAS joke taken away.
 
Bharat 2026, 4th largest economy of the world need PRIVATISATION and divestment of all sarkari companies! they are termites and burden on nation !!
look at private banks, airlines, cars, telecommunication, our defence forces need same fruits of private companies.
instead of buying from current corrupt sarkari mil-industrial complex+foreign_vendors
 
Bharat 2026, 4th largest economy of the world need PRIVATISATION and divestment of all sarkari companies! they are termites and burden on nation !!
look at private banks, airlines, cars, telecommunication, our defence forces need same fruits of private companies.
instead of buying from current corrupt sarkari mil-industrial complex+foreign_vendors
"Bharat 2026, 4th largest economy of the world need PRIVATISATION and divestment of all sarkari companies! they are termites and burden on nation !!"
Look, being stupid is not a crime, but staying stupid and ignorant despite availability of information IS.

"look at private banks, airlines, cars, telecommunication, our defence forces need same fruits of private companies."

Yeah look at them private banks fund safe bets, private airlines try to squeeze as many people onto a single aisle as much as possible, GM is becoming irrelevant, TATAs, Mahindra are all selling their EVs based on borrowed tech they acquired from the Chinese and Koreans with limited to no improvements to the foundational tech they borrowed(low R&D spendig does that). JSW is selling vehicles built by a company who's core technology was built by a Chinese SOE(SAIC motors).
You are so utterly brain washed and cognitively challenged that you don't even have the faculties to weigh the clear and undeniable relative advantages of SOEs in core strategic sectors(what Lenin called Commanding Heights industries). Indian political and administrative structure is what needs to aggressive reforms, blanket "hame pributese karo" delusions will just prepare the country for foreign acquistions or talent losses(kind of like Taiwanese and Korean firms are suffering to Chinese poaching of the formers technical talents; engineers with PhDs and Scientists in Physical Sciences)
 
you are hardcore JNU professor communist by core. communism and your blood in symbiotic state by now.
i can understand that feeling like i am with Internal Combustion engines and friends moving to Electric vehicles. So being enthustic car mechanic and mechanical engineer i put diclosure my bias and conviction that i wont buy EV instead of fossil fuel burner car. i would take it to my grave with me. so keep that bias of mine in your calculation when you ask my take.
but in your case its toxic prescription to general that Communism is good and great !! you are SICK and EVIL!!
not single Communist country is functional and successful. Last bation of communism is Russia and China both are hybrid of captialist/democracy + communism. North Korea is joke.
 
communist has been cancer to national security of Bharat and need to be wiped clean ASAP. thank god they are on their last leg in Kerala and West Bengal state.
 
you are hardcore JNU professor communist by core. communism and your blood in symbiotic state by now.
i can understand that feeling like i am with Internal Combustion engines and friends moving to Electric vehicles. So being enthustic car mechanic and mechanical engineer i put diclosure my bias and conviction that i wont buy EV instead of fossil fuel burner car. i would take it to my grave with me. so keep that bias of mine in your calculation when you ask my take.
but in your case its toxic prescription to general that Communism is good and great!! you are SICK and EVIL!!
not single Communist country is functional and successful. Last bation of communism is Russia and China both are hybrid of captialist/democracy + communism. North Korea is joke.
"you are hardcore JNU professor communist by core. communism and your blood in symbiotic state by now."
🤣 I am a JNU communist ?
I like Marxist Leninism, but JNU ?🤣

"Communism is good and great"
You are too illiterate to argue with, you don't even have basic grasp of history or reality.
I used to have a low opinion of Communism too, but that changed once I managed to extricated Indian communists from Communists in Soviet Union, Vietnam and China.
Especially the origins of Marxist Leninist Policies and the lessons they learned.

" general that Communism is good and great!! you are SICK and EVIL!!"
Like I said You are a retard who is incapable of functional thought and there is no argument that I present that'll change that since the first thing g you'd do is resort juvenile moralism "Sick and Evil" because I think Leninist have superior adaptivity than liberal democratic cuckery ? Bich that's called being informed on how state systems work. You have more in common with the left liberal leeches at JNU than I do, both of you lot are parasitic moralists who prioritize the interest of a minorities(you the capitalists, JNUtards the n number of minorities in the country)

"not single Communist country is functional and successful.
Communism is more than just the command economy you dumb bich.
It's a political system who's lessons have been embraced by countries that has actually penalized and suppressed communists.
1. Singapore - People's Action Party is a defacto Leninist Party state that still retains its cadre system.

2. Taiwan - Kuomintang Party combined Nationalism with Socialism, Once they lost the mainland to CPC they reverted to their socialist, more precisely Leninist roots to weed out left liberal parasitism. Chiang's son Chiang Ching Kuo was literally a trained communist who fused Leninist statism with the existing market system.

3. S Korea - Park Chung He was literally labelled a communist and slated for execution. He'd go on to develop S.Korea and incarcerate commies for being enemies of the state.

You don't recognise the value that inherent value if fusing Nationalism with Marxist Leninist, you can't even articulate your self without sounding like an unhinged illiterate who goes off on tangents about things he barely understands.

"communist has been cancer to national security of Bharat and need to be wiped clean ASAP. thank god they are on their last leg in Kerala and West Bengal state."
Indian communists aren't Marxist Leninists, In fact most of the things a Indian Communists have done go against the basic tenets of Marxist Leninism.
They are defacto left liberal progressives, Indian Communists have more in common with American coastal/urban elites than Soviets or Chinese despite their intellectual exhortations.
Considering the performance of Indian communists in the last 75 years, I am deigned to agree with you. Indian communists should be wiped out. But India needs Marxist Leninism more than any other country.
"Last bation of communism is Russia and China both are hybrid of captialist/democracy + communism. North Korea is joke."
China is "capitalistist" and Russia is a "democracy" ?
Tell me which capitalist society bans freehold ownership of land ?
Which capitalist society has SOEs as the leading production system ? Which capitalist society has five year plans that it adheres to, India has five year plans why didn't it work ?
Russia is an Oligarchy the continuity of the state is far more tenuous because it's not the centralized institution that sustains the state, It's Putin's personal skills.
North Korea is a cult of personality driven state that got passed down to one bad leader after the other.

Did you forget Vietnam ? The Eastern European states that built out the basic factors of production that allowed them to compete once the Soviets collapsed ?
China and Soviets have a proven record of suppressing JNU style Left Liberal Leeches. In China the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Chinese Academy of Social Sciences are separate with the former enjoying a position of privilege, while the latter functions as an arm of the state. Humanities and social science grads are something democratic India produces in excess,
While China and Soviets defacto suppress/ed HSS and its breeding grounds that create the likes of Arundhati Roy and the n number of her Ilk.
Read,
"The Making of China and India in the 21st Century: Long-Run Human Capital Accumulation from 1900 to 2020", pay special attention to the graphs, since pictures might be easier for you to digest.

Marxist Leninists pay more attention to National Material Development than self described liberal clowns who are focused on getting rich often at the expense of the nation(case in point is the largest financier of anti national left liberal causes Soros).
Marxist Leninists control and focus on the development of the material production of a country by commanding the three basic factors of production Land(nationalisation of Land ownership; private land ownership is abolished and land is held by households on leasehold rights, If you think that's "SICK and EVIL" then Singapore must be a hell for a capitalist like you), Labor(there will be only ONE trade union, striking and Datta Samant style anti Industrial parasitism will not be allowed; Educational system will be focused on creating VET grads and Engineering grads and PhD holders in Physical sciences, Tell me how many Marxist Leninist states encourage Humanities and Social sciences as they do in the liberal capitalist west ?), Capital(State Owned Banks control the flow of credit and the rate at which it's disseminated and into what industries they are to flow into).
 

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