{"id":13343,"date":"2023-07-23T08:15:28","date_gmt":"2023-07-23T02:45:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=13343"},"modified":"2025-04-02T03:36:42","modified_gmt":"2025-04-01T22:06:42","slug":"what-is-airbus-a400m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/what-is-airbus-a400m\/","title":{"rendered":"What is Airbus A400M?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Airbus A400M:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It is a <strong>European-built military transport aircraft<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>The aircraft is <strong>manufactured by Airbus Defence and Space<\/strong>, a division of the European aerospace and defence firm Airbus.<\/li>\n<li>It combines the capability to <strong>carry strategic loads with the ability to deliver even into tactical locations <\/strong>with small and <strong>unprepared airstrips<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>It can <strong>carry large cargo, vehicles, troops, and paratroopers<\/strong> or be configured for <strong>medical evacuation (MEDEVAC) missions<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Features<\/strong>:\n<ul>\n<li>A powerful <strong>turboprop engine<\/strong> that gives the A400M the <strong>ability to operate from short, unimproved airfields.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Maximum takeoff weight: 141 metric tons <\/strong>(309,000 pounds)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Maximum payload: 37 metric tons<\/strong> (41 short tons).<\/li>\n<li>It can <strong>carry up to 116 fully equipped troops<\/strong> or 66 <strong>stretchers and 25 medical attendants. T<\/strong>he cargo hold can take <strong>nine standard military pallets<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Range: 8,900 kilometers<\/strong> (5,530 miles)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Speed: 780 kilometers per hour<\/strong> (485 miles per hour)<\/li>\n<li>The aircraft is equipped with <strong>in-flight refuelling capabilities<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>The aircraft\u2019s independent navigation system comprises an <strong>inertial reference system (IRS) integrated with a global positioning system (GPS).<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It features <strong>an advanced glass cockpit<\/strong> <strong>with modern avionics<\/strong> and control systems.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>\u00a0<\/h3>\n<h3>What is a turboprop aircraft?<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>A turboprop aircraft uses a <strong>turbo-prop engine rather than a piston-powered engine<\/strong> or a jet engine.<\/li>\n<li>They <strong>have one or more gas-turbine engines connected to a gearbox that turns the propeller(s) to move the aircraft on the ground and through the air.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Turboprop aircraft <strong>have lower operating costs<\/strong> than jets because <strong>they 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 a C295 Transport Aircraft?<\/h3>\n<p>It is a new-generation tactical airlifter in the light and medium segment that will replace the aging Avro aircraft of the Indian Air Force. It was designed and built by Airbus, a European multinational aerospace corporation. It is robust and reliable but also highly versatile in terms of the number of different missions it can perform.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/airbus-pitches-a-400m-transport-aircraft-for-iafs-medium-transport-aircraft-contest\/article67110259.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>Airbus pitches A-400M transport aircraft for IAF\u2019s Medium Transport Aircraft contest<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Airbus A400M  is a European-built military transport aircraft.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":13344,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-13343","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\/13343","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=13343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13343\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}