Samtel in the forefront of indigenisation

SAMTEL MANUFACTURED SU30 BACK

As high-profile big-ticket defence purchases turn the focus of the entire world towards India, the Indian defence industry gets ready to cater to the offset and technology transfer requirements as an outcome of these purchases.

As a response to these challenges, the Indian defence industry has embarked on an intensive indigenisation campaign. Leading this wave in India is Samtel Display Systems and its joint venture companies, which are ready to provide perfect solutions and partnerships for all avionics requirements.

At its stall LH.30, at Central Hall, Lake Hanger at Defexpo 2012, Samtel Display Systems is showcasing its wide range of military and cockpit displays and modern avionics systems. At the exhibition, Samtel aims to showcase its technical competence in defence and commercial avionics, the range of products in the avionics domain, its international experience and the strength of its partnerships.

Rugged Displays: To cater to the vast and growing requirement for indigenous rugged displays for land, naval and airborne requirements for our defence forces, Samtel is ready with its vast range of rugged displays. RSD series of ruggedized AMLCD displays specifically crafted to cope with adverse and demanding environmental conditions at the same time maintaining extremely high levels of performance. Its applications include, console displays for airborne platforms, displays for tanks, armoured vehicles, air defence guns and operational shelters, naval displays for captains console, information and command systems, process control and automation, naval radars, rugged workstation consoles, security and surveillance. The rugged displays showcased are: 20.1” airborne and 20.1” ground/land-based applications, 19.0”, 17.0”, 15.0”, 10.4” with Bezel keys and 10.4” with Touchscreen.

Multifunction displays and smart MFDs: With the production of Colour MFDs for Su-30 MKI Block-III & Block-IV production aircraft at Samtel’s DGAQA qualified manufacturing facilities, the Samtel HAL JV has achieved the unique distinction of being the first public-private partnership in defence avionics space in India to have a primary cockpit display qualified and produced for induction on a fighter aircraft. These MFDs were developed under the aegis of DARE programme, with qualification and flight testing done under aegis of HAL and CEMILAC, and IAF. Samtel booth has these 5” x 5” and 6” x 6” MFDs on showcase at their booth, along with MFDs and next-generation large-size smart MFDs for some future star platforms.

Also being put up for display are the multifunction indicators-3ATI & 4ATI. The 3ATI and 4ATI display unit features a highresolution AMLCD and ARINC 429 and discrete interface. The unit is designed to replace existing electromechanical instruments, allowing a single part to display attitude, airspeed and altitude. The 3ATI & 4ATI display unit consumes little power, is low in weight and high in reliability. The unit is designed for commercial or military installations and an NVIS compatible version is available. The 3ATI & 4ATI display unit is ideal for new build or retrofit applications.

Besides these, a new product offering from Samtel-electro luminescent (EL) displays-cockpit panel flood light (CPFL) and integrally lit cockpit panel (ILCP) are also being showcased at the booth. The purpose of the cockpit panel flood lights is to provide the aircraft pilot the visibility of the various legends on cockpit instruments, LH & RH consoles in the cockpit while flying at night, while the integrally lit cockpit panel (ILCP) helps the various legends and symbols on instrumentation and control panels on the cockpit consoles to be visible to the pilot with flying at night.

The booth also features demo films on Samtel’s product range through its JV with Thales-Samtel Thales Avionics Ltd. The Indian helmet mounted sight and display for fighter aircraft is based on Thales' advanced and proven technologies; and is already flying on Indian Navy MiG-29K and qualified on M2000. The Samtel-Thales JV aims to locally develop, customise, manufacture, sell and maintain indigenous helmet-mounted sight and display systems, infrared search and track (IRST), and modern avionics systems. A demo film on infrared search and track (IRST) showcases the capabilities of this passive long-range tracking and imaging device, which is used for automatic tracking and detection of multiple targets. Samtel is located at LH.30, Central Hall, Lake Hanger, Paragti Maidan.