{"id":9024,"date":"2022-10-28T02:57:31","date_gmt":"2022-10-27T21:27:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=9024"},"modified":"2025-03-29T10:47:43","modified_gmt":"2025-03-29T05:17:43","slug":"c-295mw-transport-aircraft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/c-295mw-transport-aircraft\/","title":{"rendered":"C-295MW Transport Aircraft"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>This is the first project of its kind in which a military aircraft will be manufactured in India by a private company.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li><strong>16 aircraft will be delivered in flyaway condition and 40 will be manufactured in India<\/strong>\u00a0by the Indian Aircraft Contractor, TATA Consortium of Tata Advanced Systems Limited and Tata Consultancy Services.<\/li>\n<li>In September 2021, Cabinet Committee on Security had approved the procurement of<strong>\u00a056 C-295MW transport aircraft from Airbus Defence and Space S.A.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The first 16 fly-away aircraft are scheduled to be received between September 2023 and August 2025.<\/li>\n<li>The first Made in India aircraft is expected in September 2026.<\/li>\n<li>The aircraft can be used for civilian purposes also.<\/li>\n<li>All 56 aircraft will be fitted with\u00a0<strong>indigenous Electronic Warfare suite<\/strong>\u00a0of Indian DPSUs \u2013 Bharat Electronics Ltd and Bharat Dynamics Limited.<\/li>\n<li>After completion of delivery of 56 aircraft to IAF, M\/s Airbus Defence &amp; Space will be allowed to sell the aircraft manufactured in India to civil operators and export to countries which are cleared by the Government of India.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><strong>C-295MW:<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>C-295MW is a transport aircraft of 5-10 tonne capacity<\/strong>\u00a0with contemporary technology that will replace the ageing Avro aircraft of IAF.<\/li>\n<li>It has a\u00a0<strong>rear ramp door for quick reaction and para dropping of troops and cargo.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It can carry around 40-45 paratroopers or around 70 passengers.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Short take-off\/land from semi-prepared surfaces<\/strong>\u00a0is another of its features.<\/li>\n<li>The aircraft will strengthen the logistic capabilities of the IAF.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Source :<\/strong><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/newsonair.gov.in\/News?title=PM-to-lay-foundation-stone-of-C-295MW-transport-aircraft-manufacturing-project-for-IAF-at-Vadodara-on-Oct-30&amp;id=449967\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">All India Radio<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>C-295MW is a transport aircraft of 5-10 tonne capacity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":9025,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-9024","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\/9024","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=9024"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9024\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}