Adani ropes in Alpha Design and Israel's Elbit for unmanned aircraft systems

The companies plan to create a tiered vendor base for supporting, indigenisation and localisation requirements and seeks to set up a final assembly line for unmanned aircraft systems

Adani ropes in Alpha Design and Israel’s Elbit for unmanned aircraft systems
BS B2B Bureau Ahmedabad
Last Updated : Mar 30 2016 | 5:38 PM IST
Adani Aero Defence Systems & Technologies Ltd, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Adani Enterprises, has signed the statement of intent with Elbit-ISTAR and Alpha Design Technologies to work together in the field of unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) in India. “The statement of intent reflects the commitment of companies to realise the dream of Make in India for global requirements,” said Adani Enterprises in a statement.
 
Unmanned aircraft systems are the next frontier of technology providing multi-functional capability especially that of see and hear to provide information advantage to the fighters and net security providers.
 
The companies plan to create a tiered vendor base for supporting, indigenisation and localisation requirements and seeks to set up a final assembly and integration line including MRO (maintenance, repair and overhaul) facilities by incorporating true transfer of technology for supporting the product range, during its life cycle.
 
Adani Aero Defence focuses on design, technology development, technical collaboration, system integration services for aerospace and defence equipment and systems.
 
Elbit Systems Ltd is an international high technology company engaged in a wide range of defence, homeland security and commercial programmes throughout the world. The Israel-based company, which includes Elibit Systems and its subsidiaries, operates in the area of aerospace, land and naval systems, command, control, communications, computers, intelligence surveillance and unmanned aircraft systems.
 
Alpha Design Technologies specialises in design, development and production of defence electronics and avionics equipment and systems, airframes, upgradation of cockpits, opto-electronics, etc, in defence systems.
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First Published: Mar 30 2016 | 5:34 PM IST

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