Vadodara Made Anti-Icing Injection Device will Keep Fighter Aircraft Safe in Air – Make in India

VADODARA: A city-based company will make it sure that when the fighter aircraft of Indian Air Force (IAF) are busy establishing air dominance over enemy’s air force, they fly safe. The IAF will soon be sourcing an anti-icing injection device made by the company.
Promoter of the firm Premal Smart displayed his device during the seminar organized by South Western Air Command (SWAC) at Air Force Station, Vadodara, recently.

“Till now, the IAF used to import this device from Europe. But under the Make in India programme, it invited private firms to make the anti-icing injection device indigenously. I had also submitted a tender for making this product,” said Smart, whose firm is a registered vendor of the IAF.
He said he began working on the product about six months ago. “When an aircraft reaches a certain height, the temperature drops and ice starts forming in the fuel. An additive is mixed with the fuel when it is filled in the aircraft. But the amount of additive has to be measured and the anti-icing injection device is used for adding the additive to the fuel,” Smart told TOI.
“I believe this is for the first time that the IAF will be using an anti-icing device made indigenously. An entire squadron of aircraft can be fuelled through this device that costs just one-third of what the government was paying for the imported ones,” Smart said.

Source: ToI