Moscow, June 06: Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd (HAL) and Russia`s `Stankoimport` today signed a USD 300 million deal for supply of equipment for the assembly of Sukhoi SU-30MKI multirole fighters in India at Nasik plant. The contract has been signed within the framework of Indo-Russian deal for the licensed production of 140 `four-plus` generation Sukhoi multirole fighters in India to phase out MiG-21 and MiG-27 production by HAL.
Stankoimport said in a release that the equipment to be supplied to India would be of "general industrial purpose" - meaning that it does not fall into banned items under Russia`s international non-proliferation obligations.
Under the USD 3.5 billion Sukhoi license deal inked in December 2000, Moscow-based aero-engine design bureau `Lyulka-Saturn` and Bashkiria-based UFA engine plant (UMPO) will transfer full technical documentation and technology to HAL for the production of unique `AL-31FP` thrust-vectoring engines for the SU-30MKI. The work for the transfer of technology and production of "AL-31FP" engines in India at Koraput is already underway, general director of JSC "NPO Saturn" Yuri Lastochkin here said.
Bureau Report