{"id":159268,"date":"2023-09-14T13:12:36","date_gmt":"2023-09-14T07:42:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/?p=159268"},"modified":"2023-09-14T13:12:37","modified_gmt":"2023-09-14T07:42:37","slug":"india-air-force-to-receive-first-c-295-transport-aircraft-from-airbus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/india-air-force-to-receive-first-c-295-transport-aircraft-from-airbus\/","title":{"rendered":"India Air Force to receive first C-295 transport aircraft from Airbus"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>India Air Force to receive first C-295 transport aircraft from Airbus: <\/strong>The\u00a0Indian Air Force\u00a0is all set to acquire its\u00a0first Airbus C-295 aircraft.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>India has formalized the acquisition of&nbsp;56 Airbus C-295 aircraft&nbsp;to replace the Indian Air Force AVRO fleet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/daily-current-affairs-and-quiz\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Daily Current Affairs Quiz: September 2023<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table><thead><tr><th>Short Question<\/th><\/tr><\/thead><tbody><tr><td><strong><em>What is the difference between Casa CN 235 and C-295?<\/em><\/strong><br><br><strong>The C295, as it was introduced, is almost identical to the CN235 except for a fuselage extended by 3.1 meters (10 feet)<\/strong>, with 50% more payload capacity, larger wing tanks, and more powerful PWC PW127G engines, providing 1,972 kW (2,645 SHP) each, driving six-bladed Hamilton-Standard props.<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Among these, 16 units of the military aircraft will be manufactured in Spain while the rest will be made in India from the manufacturing facility in Vadodara, Gujarat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The new aircraft will play a major role in the forces as a tactical military transport aircraft.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India Air Force to receive first C-295 transport aircraft from Airbus: The\u00a0Indian Air Force\u00a0is all set to acquire its\u00a0first Airbus C-295 aircraft. India has formalized the acquisition of&nbsp;56 Airbus C-295 aircraft&nbsp;to replace the Indian Air Force AVRO fleet. Daily Current Affairs Quiz: September 2023 Short Question What is the difference between Casa CN 235 and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":894,"featured_media":159269,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5153],"tags":[54],"offerexpiration":[],"class_list":["post-159268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-affairs-september-2023","tag-indian-air-force"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/894"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=159268"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159268\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":159270,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159268\/revisions\/159270"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/159269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159268"},{"taxonomy":"offerexpiration","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/offerexpiration?post=159268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}