As part of Aatmanirbhar Bharat and Make in India policy in the defence sector, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday laid the foundation stone of the C295 aircraft manufacturing facility – the first aircraft manufacturing facility in the private sector in the country. On this occasion, Modi said that this... The post appeared first on .

As part of Aatmanirbhar Bharat and Make in India policy in the defence sector, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday laid the foundation stone of the C295 aircraft manufacturing facility – the first aircraft manufacturing facility in the private sector in the country. On this occasion, Modi said that this... The post appeared first on .

On this occasion, Modi said that this is our government's clear vision to make India Aatmnirbhar, especially in Defence Sector. "For this, we have taken many steps. The aircraft manufacturing facility in Vadodara is India's giant leap towards becoming self-reliant in the aviation sector."

New Delhi [India], March 3 (ANI): Global aerospace firm Airbus will be displaying its comprehensive range of defence and space capabilities at DefExpo 2022, India's flagship defence exhibition, to be held in Gujarat's Gandhinagar from March 10 to 14.

New Delhi Sep 23 PTI The defence ministry is likely to finalise in the next few days the nearly Rs 20000 crore Airbus-Tata deal to procure 56 C-295 medium transport aircraft to replace the Avro-748 planes of the Indian Air Force people familiar with the development said on ThursdayThe long-pending procurement was cleared by the Cabinet Committee on Security two weeks agoUnder the deal 16 aircraft will be delivered in a flyaway condition by the Airbus Defence and Space of Spain within 48 months of the signing of the contractThe remaining 40 planes will be manufactured in India by a consortium of the Airbus Defence and Space and the Tata Advanced Systems Limited TASL within 10 years of the signing of the contract officials saidThe C-295MW aircraft is a transport plane of 5-10 tonne capacityThis is the first project of its kind in which a military aircraft will be manufactured in India by a private companyAll 56 aircraft will be installed with indigenous electronic warfare suite the defence ministry had said on September 8 after the procurement was cleared by the Cabinet Committee on SecurityThe in-principle approval for the Avro replacement programme was accorded around nine years agoA large number of detail parts sub-assemblies and major component assemblies of aerostructure are scheduled to be manufactured in IndiaThe ministry had said that before the completion of the deliveries a servicing facility for the C-295MW aircraft is scheduled to be set up in IndiaIt is expected that this facility will act as a regional MRO maintenance repair and overhaul hub for various variants of the C-295 aircraft it had said PTI MPB RC