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SP’s Aviation
FIRST KC-390 DELIVERED TO BRAZILIAN AIR FORCE
The newly developed KC-390 undertook its maiden flight in February 2015, just six years after the award of development contract – a remarkable performance indeed by the Brazilian aerospace major, Embraer
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November 2019
SP’s Aviation
DH 106 COMET — THE WORLD'S FIRST JET AIRLINER
The Comet paid the price for being the first commercial jet as it encountered the inevitable pitfalls which other manufacturers took note of and remedied
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November 2019
SP’s Aviation
DEFENCE ENVIRONMENT IN THE UAE
The United Arab Emirates (UAE) is most certainly one of the status quo powers in the Middle East. In a regional context it remains highly suspicious of Iran, an opinion that is reinforced by the fact that Iran occupies the Tunb Islands and Abu Musa Island in Gulf,territory that the UAE claims.
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November 2019
SP’s Aviation
A REGION IN TRANSITION: SHIFTING SANDS IN THE MIDDLE EAST
The arrival of more ultra-long haul flights is ushering in a new era of more point-to-point service with smaller aircraft, a trend that is sure to challenge the mega-hub mentality
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November 2019
SP’s Aviation
The Man @ Work
Rajnath Singh has taken political ownership of the Ministry of Defence like few of his predecessors did; such factor was on full display during the handover ceremony of Rafale in France on October 8, where he led the Indian contingent from the front.
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October 2019
SP’s Aviation
Technology And Performance Leading The Way!
Nicolas Robinson, Regional Vice President International Sales, Middle East and South Asia, Gulfstream talks to SP’s Aviation on why their aircraft are so popular and successful around the globe.
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October 2019
SP’s Aviation
Rosoboronexport To Showcase Russian Counter-UAV Equipment At Dubai Airshow 2019
At Dubai Airshow 2019 Rosoboronexport (Part of the Rostec State Corporation) will present the latest Russian systems for combating unmanned aerial vehicles and other air attack weapons.
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October 2019
SP’s Aviation
'Modernisation Is An Ongoing Process Of Developing Technology And Enhancing Capabilities'
Air Chief Marshal R.K.S. Bhadauria, Chief of the Air Staff, spoke briefly to Jayant Baranwal, Editor-in-Chief, SP’s Aviation about the role, capability and modernisation of IAF.
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October 2019
SP’s Aviation
Aerial Weapons – Way Ahead For The IAF
The immediate concern for the IAF is to replace and upgrade AAMs by acquiring those with longer range and better capability under counter-measures environment.
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September 2019
SP’s Aviation
IAF Basks In Post-Balakot Limelight
The IAF Chief expressed commitment to the ‘Make in India’ agenda with the acknowledgement that “to achieve true strategic autonomy, we need to focus on indigenous design and manufacturing”
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October 2019
SP’s Aviation
Why The Show Was A Must-Attend
Boasting of the most prominent business aviation players, the upcoming members, and the latest industry innovations and aircraft with emerging technologies, NBAA-BACE 2019 was every business aviation buff ’s one-shop stop
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October 2019
SP’s Aviation
Game Changers
The Apache will act as a tremendous force-multiplier and the Chinook has a history of high serviceability and would add significant airlift capability to the IAF.
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September 2019
SP’s Aviation
Threat From Plaaf
Given the somnolence of the Indian establishment towards enhancing the IAF combat strength, the PLAAF threat is alarming and carries the potential of delivering to India an ignominy reminiscent of 1962.
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September 2019
SP’s Aviation
The Sukhoi Vulnerability And Other Post-Balakot Lessons
Diminishing gap in India’s asymmetry encouraged Pakistan to retaliate against a counter-terror air strike.
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September 2019
SP’s Aviation
IAF Shows Commitment To India's AMCA
“IAF’s vision is that all military platforms to be acquired after the conclusion of ongoing procurements will be designed, developed and produced in India.”
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September 2019
SP’s Aviation
Force Multipliers – Long Way To Go
The present holdings of force multipliers are enough for limited engagements such as the Balakot airstrike, while a wider conflict would reveal the paucity of these assets in pitiless detail.
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September 2019
SP’s Aviation
Starting Problems
Amidst turbulence in regional skies, a fifth player, Air Carnival, has entered the regional airspace and yet another full service commuter airline Zoom Air is all set to take off. There are lessons to be learnt from the regional airline hiccups.
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August 2016
SP’s Aviation
China's Strategic Airlift Capability
The traumatic reality for the nation is that the Indian aerospace industry has been left far behind in the race with its Chinese counterpart and the way things are moving, there appears to be practically no hope of catching up!
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August 2016
SP’s Aviation
Sabiha Gökçen (1913-2001)
Sabiha Gökçen is acclaimed as a model of progressive Turkish womanhood and Turkish schoolgirls grow up learning the story of her life.
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April 2018
SP’s Aviation
Falcon 8x Is Better
Vadim Feldzer, the Head of Global Communications at Dassault tells Arpita Kala of SP’s Aviation during Wings India ‘18, all about the fate of Falcon 5X and busts myths about Dassault’s mysterious new aircraft. And about 6X, 7X and 8X.
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April 2018
SP’s Aviation
The Dragon On A Shopping Spree
Practical airplane purchases, hand-me-down jets and more, our Asian neighbour is setting new business aviation trends
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April 2018
SP’s Aviation
Slow Revamp
The latest blow to the IAF is the abandonment of a two-year-old plan to produce single-engine fighters in large numbers indigenously with foreign collaboration under the ‘Make in India’ initiative
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April 2018
SP’s Aviation
1st Full Details Of Rafale's €4-Billion Make In India & Offsets Plan
Livefist has obtained access to the first comprehensive details of France’s plans on what will easily be the most challenging component of the Rafale deal: the offsets. Offsets involve investments and sourcing that companies manufacturing the Rafale must make in India amounting to half of the deal’s €7.87 billion value.
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April 2018
SP’s Aviation
Tianjin Airlines– Embraer, perfect Fit for China's Regional Expansion
Tianjin Airlines is also the largest E-Jets operator in Asia with 62 aircraft, which redefined the operation model of regional aviation in China.
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December 2016
SP’s Aviation
Greater Understanding Of Business Aviation Needed Among Policy Makers
In an exclusive interaction with the Editor-in-Chief of SP’s Aviation, Jayant Baranwal, the Director General of IBAC, Kurt Edwards, talks about the immense economic benefits to the economy with the deployment of business aviation.
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February 2017
SP’s Aviation
Partnership is Paramount
It is not just feasible in a world to be isolationist where globalised trade is the norm in all verticals, including weapons and weapon systems
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February 2017
SP’s Aviation
Landing On Highways
An efficiently managed model wherein designated landing strips on highways in the proximity of operational airbases are available during the war will have a force multiplier effect.
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January 2017
SP’s Aviation
RCS Selection On, First RCS Flights In March?
The Union Minister of Civil Aviation P. Ashok Gajapathi Raju, while expressing satisfaction with the response received under the Regional Connectivity Scheme, conveyed that this is a significant step ahead in realizing the Prime Minister’s vision of ‘connecting the unconnected and serving the unserved’.
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January 2017
SP’s Aviation
Trending Now — Drones
The US has a lead in military UAV development in the world, but China is swiftly closing the gap, thanks to intellectual property theft, reverse engineering and innovative skills.
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May 2018
SP’s Aviation
Have European Private Jets Finally Emerged From The Great Recession?
Rising from the ashes of 2008 economic crisis and dispelling Brexit fears, business aviators gear up for the upcoming EBACE 2018
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