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Prime Minister Narendra Modi and French President Emmanuel Macron connected Tuesday (February 17, 2026) virtually inaugurated the Tata Advanced Systems’ Final Assembly Line for the Airbus H125 helicopter.
The installation successful Vemagal successful Kolar territory of Karnataka, is India’s archetypal private-sector chopper Final Assembly Line for the Airbus H125. This is the archetypal clip the Indian backstage assemblage volition undertake the manufacturing, integration, investigating and attraction of a blase rotary-wing level successful India.
To commencement disconnected with, the civilian H125 volition beryllium built astatine this installation and successful aboriginal the subject variant of the chopper could besides beryllium built.
The archetypal ‘Made successful India’ H125 is expected to beryllium delivered aboriginal 2027 and volition besides beryllium disposable for export crossed the South Asian region.
Tata Advanced Systems Limited and Airbus said that the H125M is optimised to service arsenic a high-altitude unit multiplier crossed a spectrum of captious missions.
Defence Minister Rajnath Singh who was contiguous connected the juncture said that the H-125 programme concern is anticipated to transcend ₹1,000 crore.
“The H-125 programme is apt to make nonstop and indirect employment opportunities for our skilled and hard moving younger generation,” Mr. Singh said.
Minister of the Armed Forces and Veterans Affairs of France Catherine Vautrin said the inauguration of the installation is simply a testament to French-Indian defence cooperation.
Karnataka Large and Medium Industries Minister M B Patil said 500 H125 airy helicopters volition beryllium manufactured implicit the adjacent 20 years astatine this facility. Mr. Patil said that 17 acres of onshore had been allotted for the project.
“After France, the United States and Brazil, Karnataka has present go location to the world’s 4th H125 chopper manufacturing and Final Assembly Line (FAL) facility, a improvement that volition further fortify the aerospace ecosystem successful the State,” helium said.
