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747-237 Member
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Posted: Tue Jul 24, 2012 1:19 am Post subject: IAF to buy 56 transport planes, replace Avro fleet |
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http://www.dnaindia.com/india/report_india-clears-2-4-billion-plan-to-buy-cargo-planes-for-air-force_1718801
India clears $2.4 billion plan to buy cargo planes for Air Force
July 24, 2012
India's defence ministry on Monday gave its nod for an Indian Air Force (IAF) plan to buy 56 transport planes worth $2.4 billion to augment its cargo fleet, apart from tweaking its defence procurement offsets policy and creating a new agency to execute the same.
The Defence Acquisition Council (DAC), headed by Defence Minister AK Antony, met in Delhi to clear the proposals, ministry sources said.
The 56 transport planes are required by the IAF in place of its ageing Avro planes fleet and the defence ministry will issue a global tender for procuring the same, they said, adding that only the first 16 planes under the deal will be directly procured from the vendor.
The deal winner will have to tie-up with an Indian private or a public sector firm to acquire components for manufacturing the rest 40 planes.
The DAC also cleared the creation of the Defence Offsets Management Agency (DOMA) in place of the existing Defence Offsets Facilitation Agency (DOFA). The new agency will now be under the defence production department, they said.
Among the new offsets policy guidelines approved included transfer of technology and critical technologies as eligible defence offsets, a policy under which any foreign firm winning an Indian defence contract worth over $60 million will have to plough back a minimum of 30% of the deal back in Indian defence, aerospace and homeland security industries and training. _________________ 11000 posts (and counting) on Airliners-India.
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Aseem Member
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Posted: Tue Jul 24, 2012 3:06 am Post subject: |
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which plane will fit in? Are we seeing more Hercules!!
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747-237 Member
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Posted: Tue Jul 24, 2012 3:25 am Post subject: |
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Aseem wrote: | which plane will fit in? Are we seeing more Hercules!! |
We are, but probably not as an Avro replacement. I think the Alenia C-27J Spartan and the CASA C-295 were being evaluated at one time, but I am not sure what happened about that. _________________ 11000 posts (and counting) on Airliners-India.
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HAWK21M Member
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Posted: Tue Jul 24, 2012 1:40 pm Post subject: |
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C17 are too large to replace the HS748.C130 seems closer. _________________ Think of the Brighter side !!! |
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747-237 Member
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Posted: Tue Jul 24, 2012 3:03 pm Post subject: |
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HAWK21M wrote: | C17 are too large to replace the HS748.C130 seems closer. |
Like I said, the C-130Js and C-17s are not Avro replacements. _________________ 11000 posts (and counting) on Airliners-India.
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sabya99 Member
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Posted: Tue Jul 24, 2012 10:20 pm Post subject: |
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747-237 wrote: | HAWK21M wrote: | C17 are too large to replace the HS748.C130 seems closer. |
Like I said, the C-130Js and C-17s are not Avro replacements. |
Could it be An-26 or 32 ? _________________ Sabya99 |
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shivendrashukla Member
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Posted: Tue Jul 24, 2012 11:50 pm Post subject: |
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sabya99 wrote: | 747-237 wrote: | HAWK21M wrote: | C17 are too large to replace the HS748.C130 seems closer. |
Like I said, the C-130Js and C-17s are not Avro replacements. |
Could it be An-26 or 32 ? |
C-27J Spartan is the frontrunner.
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Nimish Member
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