Hanwha Techniques has succeeded in its first entry into the U.S. market by means of digital avionics gear exports.
Hanwha Techniques introduced on Dec. 18 that it has signed a contract to produce digital giant space show (ELAD) to the Korean Air Drive’s newest fighter jet F-15K and the U.S. Air Drive’s F-15EX, that are produced by Boeing, the world’s largest plane producer and a number one U.S. protection firm.
This achievement is the results of government-led industrial cooperation and gross sales diplomacy, together with the Protection Acquisition Program Administration (DAPA)’s Plane Challenge Division, backed by the avionics gear know-how that Hanwha Techniques has amassed. In November final yr, DAPA signed an industrial cooperation memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Boeing to develop home firms’ participation in industrial cooperation whereas pursuing a large-scale abroad procurement challenge (F-15K efficiency enchancment).
Subsequently, by means of steady efforts to allow home firms to take part in international firms’ international provide chains, Hanwha Techniques was chosen as Boeing’s F-15 cockpit giant show provider, finally opening the door to entry into the native market.
Hanwha Techniques’ ELAD integrates info that was beforehand distributed throughout a number of instrument panels into one giant display screen, offering key cockpit info shortly, enhancing pilots’ situational consciousness capabilities and enhancing mission execution effectivity. Pilots can intuitively examine mandatory info on one display screen and transmit instructions to the mission laptop (MC) by means of a touch-based interface. This operational idea is evaluated as a core aspect that constitutes the cockpit surroundings of recent fighter jets.
Hanwha Techniques can also be supplying seven important avionics gear varieties for the Korean fighter jet KF-21. It’s contributing to KF-21 localization by creating the mission laptop (MC), which serves because the mind, multi-function show (MFD) that turns into “the pilot’s eyes,” audio management and communications system (ACCS), and terrain following laptop (TFC) with purely home know-how. Moreover, it developed the AESA radar, a know-how that the USA refused to switch, along with the Company for Protection Growth, and can also be supplying the localized infrared search and monitor system (IRST) and electro-optical focusing on pod (EO TGP) to the KF-21.
The ELAD that Hanwha Techniques will export to Boeing is scheduled to be manufactured with a design optimized for the mission surroundings, contemplating F-15EX plane traits and cockpit association, primarily based on the MFD growth capabilities mounted on the Korean next-generation fighter jet KF-21. Beginning with this contract, as Hanwha Techniques’ gear is utilized, Korean know-how is anticipated to have the ability to take part in earnest within the F-15 improve course of.
Hanwha Techniques is supplying multi-function radar (MFR) to the medium-range surface-to-air guided weapon system (Cheongung-II), which is being exported consecutively to Center Japanese international locations together with the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Saudi Arabia, and Iraq. It has additionally exported ship fight techniques, known as the mind of vessels, to 13 Philippine naval vessels of assorted varieties together with frigates, patrol vessels, and coastal guard ships. Final yr, it provided AESA radar antenna units to Italy’s Leonardo, increasing its international market entry to Europe, the Center East, and Southeast Asia.
By this contract with Boeing, Hanwha Techniques has opened the door to entry into the U.S. market and confirmed that its export diversification technique has formally gotten on monitor. An organization official mentioned, “The export of huge multi-function shows is important in itself because it represents recognition of Hanwha Techniques’ avionics gear know-how and high quality within the U.S. home market,” including, “Primarily based on cooperation with the federal government and DAPA, we’ll additional develop enterprise alternatives within the international avionics market together with the U.S. market.”
