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In one of the first ‘Make in India’, manufacturing initiatives, Tata Power will produce Honeywell Aerospace’s ‘Talin’ navigator system in India.
Honeywell Aerospace, the US-headquartered technology giant, has signed a licencing agreement with Tata Power’s Strategic Engineering Division (SED).
Patented technology Tactical Advanced Land Inertial Navigator or Talin is a Honeywell-patented technology, which enables vehicles and artillery to navigate very precisely, even where GPS satellite guidance is not available, to increase troop safety and maximise mission success.
The announcement by the two corporates today comes days after the meeting by Prime Minister Narendra Modi held in New Delhi, where global CEOs and top Indian honchos made presentations on the ‘Make in India’ initiative.
Varying capabilities Honeywell will licence the design, hardware and expertise to assemble, test and, in the future, build the production kits for Talin to Tata Power SED.
It will provide the Indian Armed Forces with a locally constructed advanced land navigation technology.
The initial efforts will begin in 2015 for the Talin 2000 with production and manufacturing of the system components expected by 2016.
The agreement will also be extended to cover Honeywell’s Talin 3000, 4000 and 5000 products, which offer varying capabilities to suit a wide range of operational requirements.
Rahul Chaudhry, CEO, Tata Power SED in a statement said: “We will offer the Indian Armed Forces a state-of-the-art inertial navigation technology, made in India and with local product support”.
Arijit Ghosh, President India, Honeywell Aerospace said: “By partnering with Tata Power SED on the production of Talin we are aligning with the Government’s aim of increasing locally manufactured technologies for India’s defence industry and giving the Indian Armed Forces an easy-to-justify option for navigation on the 21st century battlefield.”
What is Talin? Talin is a highly accurate, shock-stabilised position and pointing inertial navigation system designed for use on a wide range of military and commercial platforms.
It provides users with extremely precise attitude and position awareness with or without the use of GPS.
It is best for environments where GPS signals are unavailable.
More than 15,000 systems from the Talin family are operating on more than 60 military and commercial platforms worldwide, Honeywell said.
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