India has placed two follow-on orders with Saab to equip its indigenous multi-role Dhruv helicopters with combat self-defense systems. State-owned Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd. [HAL] submitted the $33 million orders with the Swedish aerospace and defense company last weekend for serial production of integrated electronic warfare self-protection systems for the country’s Advanced Light Helicopter, a Saab official says. Deliveries are expected to begin in 2014. The twin HAL orders come after initial production orders were received in 2008.

The Indian navy has received the first naval variant of the indigenous advanced jet trainer (AJT) Hawk Mk-132. “We built the aircraft in time for delivery to the navy, which has placed [an] order for 17 AJTs variants. Four more trainers will be delivered before April 2014,” says R.K. Tyagi, chairman of the state-run Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL), which made the aircraft. HAL manufactures the AJT under licensed production with the U.K.’s BAE Systems and Rolls-Royce for the Indian air force (IAF) and Indian navy.

After a long string of delays, India will soon receive its second aircraft carrier, INS Vikramaditya, as Russia completed all its sea trials earlier this month. The 45,000-ton, 284-meter (932-ft.) long INS Vikramaditya, formerly the Russian Kiev-class Admiral Gorshkov, served in the Russian navy from 1987 to 1995. India agreed to buy it for $2.3 billion. The ship underwent a series of aviation trials over the last two months in the Barents Sea and the White Sea in Russia.