Kerala Hitech Industries Limited
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Company type | Government owned |
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Industry | General Engineering Work Centre |
Headquarters | , |
Owner | Government of Kerala |
Kerala Hitech Industries Limited (KELTEC) was an Indian aerospace company in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala. Its product-mix included systems required for the launch vehicles, satellite and non-rotating systems of turbojet aircraft engines.[1][2] KELTEC was acquired by BrahMos Aerospace and rebranded as Brahmos Aerospace Trivandrum Ltd (BATL) in 2007.
Manufacturing facility
The Manufacturing facility is set up in a 15.6-acre (63,000 m2) campus in
KELTEC manufactures a number of major systems for the
The
Inception of KELTEC
On 18 January 1991 the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) signed an agreement with the Russian space agency Glavkosmos for the transfer of cryogenic technology. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, Russia was under considerable American influence. In this backdrop, both Glavkosmos and ISRO anticipated the United States would try and stymie the deal. So Glavkosmos and ISRO drew up a back-up plan to outsource the manufacture of the cryogenic engines to Kerala Hi-tech Industries Limited (KELTEC). The arrangement was designed to get around the provisions of the Missile Technology Control Regime (MTCR). The space czars of the two countries, Aleksey Vasin, officer-in-charge of cryogenic technology in Glavkosmos, and ISRO Chairman U.R. Rao – reckoned that if Russian cryogenic technology was passed on to ISRO via KELTEC, technically it would not be a violation of the MTCR.[4]
References
- ^ John Pike (24 July 2011). "Kerala Hitech Industries Limited (KELTEC) - Special Weapons Facilities". Globalsecurity.org. Retrieved 17 August 2011.
- ^ Gary Bryant, India. "Kerala Hitech Industries Limited". Hotfrog.in. Retrieved 17 August 2011.
- ^ "Kerala Hitech Industries Limited (KELTEC) - Special Weapons Facilities". Fas.org. Retrieved 17 August 2011.
- ^ "Why My Book Didn't Sell". Open The Magazine. 25 January 2013. Retrieved 18 January 2021.