NEW DELHI: The mega Rs 21,935 crore Tata-Airbus venture to offer 56 twin-turboprop C-295 army delivery plane to the IAF is about to turn out to be even larger. The protection ministry is now making plans the purchase of any other 15 such planes for the Navy and Coast Guard as smartly.
The plan is to switch 9 C-295s for Navy and 6 for Coast Guard, and equip them with multi-mode radars, electro-optic cameras and sonobuoys, for surveillance missions over the prime seas, assets instructed TOI. Airbus Defense and Space (Spain) will adjust the preliminary couple of planes for maritime necessities. The relaxation shall be manufactured on the Tata-Airbus facility at Vadodara in Gujarat, with the DRDO executing the total venture for equipping them to function medium-range maritime reconnaissance (mrmrplane.
The Rajnath Singh-led Defense Acquisitions Council will quickly absorb the grant of acceptance of necessity (AoN) for the 15-aircraft venture, which might value round Rs 18,000 crore, the assets added. Both Navy and Coast Guard were searching for new MRMR plane to verify the Indian Ocean Region (IOR) may also be extra successfully patrolled to hit upon each typical and terror threats in time.
The Navy recently has 12 P-8I plane, obtained from the United States for $3.2 billion, for long-range reconnaissance missions. Packed with radars and sensors in addition to armed with Harpoon Block-II missiles, MK-54 light-weight torpedoes, rockets and intensity fees, the P-8Is are basically intended for looking enemy submarines.
The P-8 Is patrolling the outermost layer of the three-tier maritime surveillance grid at the side of two unarmed Sea Guardian drones leased from US company General Atomics. “The 15 MRMR aircraft, which have a flight endurance of up to 11 hours, in turn, will be used for medium-range missions in the IOR along with the Dornier-228 fleet,” mentioned a supply.
While India’s number one house of strategic pastime stretches from the Persian Gulf to Strait of Malaccait additionally has a limiteless 5,422-km sea coast, 1,197 islands and two million sq km of EEZ to protect towards threats.
PM Modi had laid the root stone for the Tata-Airbus Vadodara facility on October 30. The first 16 C-295s are to be dropped at IAF in a flyaway situation by way of Airbus between September 2023 to August 2025, with the rest 40 to be produced at Vadodara .
The first ‘Made in India’ C-295, which is able to elevate as much as nine-tonne of payload or 71 squaddies with “short take-off and land” capacity from semi-prepared surfaces, will roll out in September 2026.
Induction of those 56 planes within the 2023-2031 time frame will spice up IAF’s tactical airlift capacity alongside the border with China. This is the primary time an army plane shall be manufactured by way of the personal sector in India, breaking the digital monopoly of protection PSU Hindustan Aeronautics for many years.
The plan is to switch 9 C-295s for Navy and 6 for Coast Guard, and equip them with multi-mode radars, electro-optic cameras and sonobuoys, for surveillance missions over the prime seas, assets instructed TOI. Airbus Defense and Space (Spain) will adjust the preliminary couple of planes for maritime necessities. The relaxation shall be manufactured on the Tata-Airbus facility at Vadodara in Gujarat, with the DRDO executing the total venture for equipping them to function medium-range maritime reconnaissance (mrmrplane.
The Rajnath Singh-led Defense Acquisitions Council will quickly absorb the grant of acceptance of necessity (AoN) for the 15-aircraft venture, which might value round Rs 18,000 crore, the assets added. Both Navy and Coast Guard were searching for new MRMR plane to verify the Indian Ocean Region (IOR) may also be extra successfully patrolled to hit upon each typical and terror threats in time.
The Navy recently has 12 P-8I plane, obtained from the United States for $3.2 billion, for long-range reconnaissance missions. Packed with radars and sensors in addition to armed with Harpoon Block-II missiles, MK-54 light-weight torpedoes, rockets and intensity fees, the P-8Is are basically intended for looking enemy submarines.
The P-8 Is patrolling the outermost layer of the three-tier maritime surveillance grid at the side of two unarmed Sea Guardian drones leased from US company General Atomics. “The 15 MRMR aircraft, which have a flight endurance of up to 11 hours, in turn, will be used for medium-range missions in the IOR along with the Dornier-228 fleet,” mentioned a supply.
While India’s number one house of strategic pastime stretches from the Persian Gulf to Strait of Malaccait additionally has a limiteless 5,422-km sea coast, 1,197 islands and two million sq km of EEZ to protect towards threats.
PM Modi had laid the root stone for the Tata-Airbus Vadodara facility on October 30. The first 16 C-295s are to be dropped at IAF in a flyaway situation by way of Airbus between September 2023 to August 2025, with the rest 40 to be produced at Vadodara .
The first ‘Made in India’ C-295, which is able to elevate as much as nine-tonne of payload or 71 squaddies with “short take-off and land” capacity from semi-prepared surfaces, will roll out in September 2026.
Induction of those 56 planes within the 2023-2031 time frame will spice up IAF’s tactical airlift capacity alongside the border with China. This is the primary time an army plane shall be manufactured by way of the personal sector in India, breaking the digital monopoly of protection PSU Hindustan Aeronautics for many years.