Continuing its success on various recent projects, HAL has now flown the first FOC upgraded Mirage-2000 aircraft recently adhering to the scheduled date. "We have done it again on time. What it proves is HAL's capability of mid-life upgrade of platforms to overcome obsolescence issues, enhance the reliability and maintainability of these aircraft. The introduction of state of the art facility created for this project ensures the timely upgradation of the Mirage fleet," said T. Suvarna Raju, CMD, HAL.

The Final Operational Configuration (FOC) design was implemented on an Initial Operational Configured (IOC) aircraft which was received at HAL only about eight months ago. "This significant milestone could be achieved by the dedicated efforts of the HAL's team of designers and engineers with active support from IAF, RCMA and DGAQA", added Raju. 

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