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India : HAL gets Rs2,400 cr IAF deal to upgrade Jaguar fighter jets
 
BY : K. Raghu For HT Media

HAL gets Rs2,400 cr IAF deal to upgrade Jaguar fighter jets




Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd (HAL), the state-owned military plane maker, will upgrade 68 so-called “deep penetration” Jaguar fighters of the Indian Air Force (IAF) with modern avionics in a contract valued more Rs2,400 crore that will increase the life and efficacy of the fighter planes.HAL will upgrade these British-designed planes with a new version of the avionics, called display attack ranging inertial navigation (Darin-3), replacing the initial version of the system, Darin-1, for the lo-ng range ground attack fighter.
“These (68) planes were built in late 1980s to early 1990s, (and since then) aircraft avionics have improved phenomenally,” said a person familiar with the development, who did not wish to be named.
The Inertial Nav-Attack System Integration Organization (IIO), a multiple agency unit set up by the Defence Research Development Organisation (DRDO), IAF and HAL built the Darin system first in 1980s.
In 2001, DRDO’s defence avionics research establishment and HAL had to built the Darin-2 version, after Britain’s Smiths Aerospace backed out of a deal to build avionics for the planes. Since then, DRDO has gained expertise to build avionics for the Sukhoi 30 MkI fighter, the Tejas light combat aircraft and upgrade the avionics system for the Mig 21 fleet of the IAF.
“This is like a mid-life extension for these planes. It will be lethal for some more years,” said a former HAL official, who was involved in manufacturing Jaguar aircraft for the IAF. He did not want to be named.
IAF got the first batch of Jaguar planes in 1979. These 68 planes were among the first lot of Jaguars produced at its Bangalore factory by HAL under licence from BAE  Systems Plc., (then known as British Aerospace). It had closed the Jaguar assembly line twice before opening it in 2000, to make 37 such planes.
HAL, the only manufacturer of Jaguars globally, has produced the last of these planes, called Shamsher in the IAF, this year.
The same assembly line is being used partly to produce BAE Systems’ Hawk advanced jet trainer for the IAF.
 
 
 
   
 
 
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    #1 Author: avatar_singh (25 July 2008 12:58)
     
    WHAT IS iNDIA DOING WITH CRAP BRITISH PLANES LIKE JAGUAR AND HAWK?-SHAME ON iNDIANS FOR HAVING WEAKNED DEFENCE CAPABIKLITY JSUT TO PLEASE YOUR BRITISH MASTERS.

    ANGLOAMERICAN FRAUD


    http://www.larouchepac.com/news/2008/07/24/report-how-british-invented-shore-tax-havens.html


    Report: How the British Invented Off-Shore Tax Havens
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    July 24, 2008 (LPAC) This morning, Jack Blum, a lawyer with long experience in investigating money laundering, tax evasion, and similar financial crimes, provided a useful assessment when he told the Senate Finance Committee that offshore tax havens, such as those that are scattered about the British Commonwealth, have their origins in something called the "revenue rule," a common law rule that says that no government should help enforce the tax laws of other governments. This "revenue rule," Blum said, has its origins in English common law during the Napoleonic era, when English courts upheld contracts between private parties that were intended to evade French customs duties. Since the revenue rule has expanded to become a basic principle of common law, one result has been that the IRS cannot enforce tax judgments against individuals or corporations if the money at issue is being held in an offshore bank.

    The revenue rule has spawned an entire industry dedicated to helping people evade taxes in their own countries, mostly in the infamous British Commonwealth offshore financial centers such as the Cayman Islands and the British Virgin Islands, among others. Offshore banks actually sell services in the US and other countries to help people evade taxes they would otherwise have to pay their own governments. This is not unlike the British approach to terrorism, in that terrorists living in London are protected as long as they attack other countries.

    Blum proposed a number of measures to deal with the problem, mostly having to do with requiring taxpayers to prove that their offshore companies are, indeed, real, rather than the shell companies usually set up to hide assets. However, Blum agreed with Sen. John Kerry (D-MA) when he said that without getting agreement with other countries to combat the problem, "it's just going to stay a game." Blum replied that "the revenue rule has to be taken down as an international principle."

     
     
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