Week 4 at 3BRD
Continuing from where I left last week, I had visit to general engineering squadron, Indigenisation squadron and QAS (quality assurance squadron).
In GES I visited the remaining bays which were left in the last week, some of which are Rubber bay, rubber testing lab, CNC wire cut machine etc. Rubber testing lab has all the facilities for testing properties of rubber such as elongation, tensile strength, compressive strength and hardness. The lab also has facilities for testing tensile & compressive strength and other properties of metals also. Various machines used for this purpose are universal testing machine, hardness tester etc.
After this I visited Indigenization cell which is the most important part of 3BRD as well as Indian air force. This cell is associated with indigenizing as many parts of the helicopters and aircrafts as much as possible. ISC of 3BRD has indigenized around 13000 different parts of the helicopter whereas IAF has indigenized around one million parts. But to everyone’s disappointment all these are simple & single parts and ISC has not been able to made any complete system. At present they are working to make the complete Fire extinguishing system and if they are able to do this then it will be a major achievement in the history of IAF.QAS is associated with the testing and maintaining the quality standards of all the tools, machines & services used & provided in 3BRD. It maintains check on the preventive maintenance that is carried out in the BRD. It does various work, from dimensional check to micrometry check. There are offices and labs for quality check in every department
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