IAF to receive first batch of AJT by March 2007

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IAF to receive first batch of AJT by March 2007
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Duminus	Nov 14 2005, 09:05 PM Post #1
PDFF Admin Support Posts: 7,083 Group: PDFF Admin Group Member #2 Joined: July 9, 2004	Bangalore \| November 14, 2005 5:31:26 PM IST The first batch of HAWK-132 Advanced Jet Trainer (AJT) from BAe, United Kingdom, is likely to be received by the Indian Air Force (IAF) by March 2007, Air Marshal S Bhojwani, Air Officer Commanding-in-chief, Training Command, informed today. Addressing a press conference at the Institute of Aerospace Medicine (IAM) here, he said BAe UK, with which a deal for the sale of 66 AJTs was signed, was to deliver 24 aircraft first, while the rest would be manufactured under licence by Hindustan Aeronautics Limited. He said pilots from IAF had been provided training on IJT at the UK and by 2007, over 75 personnel would complete their training. HAL had also started getting raw materials for the licenced manufacture of AJT. Air Marshal Bhojwani said infrastructure facilities at the IAF's Bidar airbase were being upgraded to accommodate the training base for IJTs. The runway in Bidar was being expanded to accommodate larger fighter aircraft. To a question, he said the General Court Martial, being conducted against Flying Officer Anjali Gupta, was on the right track and it was being carried out with all seriousness like the affairs of the Karnataka High Court. The GCM was armed with all the authorities of a civil court, he added, refusing to comment on its functioning as the matter was sub-judice. link



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