Made in India HTT-40 to be IAF’s trainer aircraft
The Indian Air Force is expected to procure 70 of these basic trainer jets, which can also carry weapons.
Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar was at the Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) in Bangalore today to witness the first test flight of Hindustan Turbo Trainer-40 (HTT-40), country's indigenous basic trainer aircraft, and the minister was impressed with the efforts of young HAL techies.
After the test flight at the HAL base, Parrikar got into the cockpit of the trainer jet to get a closer look of the aircraft.
ALL ABOUT HTT 40:
- 1. Aimed at being used for the first stage training for all flying cadets of the three services, HTT-40 had made its maiden flight after much delay on May 31.
- 2. Officials said detailed design phase of HTT-40 was launched in August 2013 with HAL's internal funding and was completed in May 2015 and from there it has taken 12 months to fly the first prototype.
- 3. Indian Air Force is expected to procure seventy HTT-40 aircraft.
- 4. HAL has said that the programme aims to achieve its operational clearance by 2018, and towards this the company will be manufacturing three prototypes and two static test specimens.
- 5. Designed to meet the current demands of the Air force, there is also a provision to include weapons for the trainer aircraft.
- 6. According to officials, the indigenous content on HTT-40 is close to 80 per cent with about 75 plus systems out of the total 90 on the aircraft sourced from local players and sister divisions of HAL.
- 7. HTT-40 aircraft weighs about 2,800 kg and has Turbo Prop engine of 950 shp class.
(Source : newsx.com)
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