The Air Force plans to buy another 60 Hawk advanced jet trainers topping its existing order of 66, Vice Chief of Air Staff Air Marshal D.C....
The Air Force plans to buy another 60 Hawk advanced jet trainers topping its existing order of 66, Vice Chief of Air Staff Air Marshal D.C. Kumaria said here on Friday, on the sidelines of an aerospace medicine conference.
Of the new lot of the AJTs, 20 would be to form anaerobatics team to replace the popular Suryakirans. Stressing the need to have a phased training structure for IAF’s trainees, Air Marshal Kumaria said that the indigenous IJT being developed by HAL would fit in between the basic trainer and the Hawk AJT that has been procured from BAe Systems, U.K.
At the basic level, “the Pilatus PC-7 is coming to us in a very quick time. The first aircraft will be with us in March next year and thefirst course will start in July,” he said.
