The website of “Defense Blog” reported on January 7 that India will buy 56 C295 tactical transport aircraft for $2.5 billion.
Defence Blog quoted Hindustan Times as saying that the Indian government will spend $2.5 billion to buy C295 tactical transport aircraft from Airbus Defense Aerospace and Tata Advanced Systems Ltd (TASL) will jointly implement the project to produce this new heavy transport for India. Machine.
The deal includes up to 56 C295 transport aircraft, which will replace the aging Avro-748 aircraft of the Indian Air Force.
Relevant officials said that under the contract, Airbus will provide 16 completed and flying C295 transport aircraft, and the remaining 40 will be assembled by Tata in India.
Manmohan Bahadur, deputy director of the Indian Air Force Research Center, said that the Avro-748 was in service in the early 1960s and was long overdue for a replacement.
