{"id":10371,"date":"2023-05-03T11:12:51","date_gmt":"2023-05-03T05:42:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=10371"},"modified":"2025-03-29T19:52:06","modified_gmt":"2025-03-29T14:22:06","slug":"what-is-antonov-an-32","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/what-is-antonov-an-32\/","title":{"rendered":"What is Antonov AN-32?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Antonov AN-32:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is a <strong>twin-engined turboprop military transport aircraft.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It is designed and <strong>manufactured by the Antonov Design Bureau of Ukraine<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>It was <strong>purchased by India from the erstwhile Soviet Union<\/strong> in 1984.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Its <strong>Nato reporting name is Cline<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Features<\/strong>:\n<ul>\n<li>The AN-32 can be <strong>operated at high-altitude airfields<\/strong> (up to 4500 m above sea level) and <strong>in a hot climate<\/strong>, making the aircraft <strong>suitable for tactical military transport<\/strong> or other evacuation operations.<\/li>\n<li>It can <strong>carry a maximum weight of 27 tons<\/strong> at a <strong>maximum speed of 530 km\/h.\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Passenger Capacity:<\/strong> 42 paratroopers or <strong>50 passengers<\/strong> or 24 Casualties on a stretcher with three medical personnel.<\/li>\n<li>It also has a <strong>limited bombing role<\/strong> and is used for <strong>para-trooping operations.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>What is a turboprop aircraft?<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>A turboprop aircraft <strong>uses a turbo-prop engine rather than a piston-powered engine or a jet engine.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>They have <strong>one or more gas-turbine engines connected to a gearbox<\/strong> <strong>that turns the propeller(s)<\/strong> to move the aircraft on the ground and through the air.<\/li>\n<li>Turboprop aircraft <strong>have lower operating costs than jets<\/strong> because they <strong>burn less fuel<\/strong>, but they are <strong>also slower than jets.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1)\u00a0What is the Boeing C-17 Globemaster?<\/h3>\n<p>The C-17 Globemaster III (Globemaster C-17) is a longrange, heavy-lift strategic transport aircraft that can operate close to a potential area of operations for combat, peacekeeping or humanitarian missions worldwide.C-17 is capable of rapid, strategic delivery of troops and all types of cargo to main operating bases anywhere in the world.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.indianarrative.com\/world-news\/no-longer-enamoured-by-china-indian-ocean-countries-rediscover-historic-bond-with-india-138722.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>No longer enamoured by China, Indian Ocean countries rediscover historic bond with India<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Antonov AN-32 is a twin-engined turboprop military transport aircraft.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":10372,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-10371","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10371"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10371\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}