{"id":438548,"date":"2021-09-27T11:07:53","date_gmt":"2021-09-27T05:37:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=438548"},"modified":"2021-09-27T12:51:59","modified_gmt":"2021-09-27T07:21:59","slug":"union-defence-ministry-inks-rs-21000-crore-deal-with-airbus-for-56-iaf-planes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/union-defence-ministry-inks-rs-21000-crore-deal-with-airbus-for-56-iaf-planes\/","title":{"rendered":"Union defence ministry inks Rs 21,000 crore deal with Airbus for 56 IAF planes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: The Union defence ministry on Friday inked the over Rs 21,000 crore (around $3 billion) contract with Airbus Defence and Space (Spain) to acquire 56 C-295 medium transport aircraft to replace the old Avro planes of the IAF. <\/p>\n<p>Airbus will deliver 16 of the twin-turboprop C-295MW aircraft in a flyaway condition within four years, with the remaining 40 being manufactured in India by the Tata Consortium under a joint industrial partnership within 10 years. <\/p>\n<p>After the delivery of the 56 aircraft, the subsequent planes manufactured here can be exported to countries cleared by the Indian government, said MoD officials.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: The Union defence ministry on Friday inked the over Rs 21,000 crore (around $3 billion) contract with Airbus Defence and Space (Spain) to acquire 56 C-295 medium transport aircraft to replace the old Avro planes of the IAF. Airbus will deliver 16 of the twin-turboprop C-295MW aircraft in a flyaway condition within four years, with the remaining 40 being manufactured in India by the Tata Consortium under a joint industrial partnership within 10 years. After the delivery of the 56 aircraft, the subsequent planes manufactured here can be exported to countries cleared by the Indian government, said MoD [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[220,130,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-438548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438548","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=438548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438548\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=438548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=438548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=438548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}