India’s 1st C295 and why this transport aircraft marks beginning of new era of Indian aviation 

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What a change just 10 years. In 2013 UPA defence minister told parliament that we don't have money to purchase Aircraft to purchase and replace battalion of Aircraft. Just 10 years. We imagine how can Congress can do 50 years

Not to forget C17's role in carrying oxygen tanks from Singapore during the 2nd wave of corona outbreak.

One aspect of a private aircraft builder like Tata is that unlike HAL, such a builder is free to accept orders from civilian sources from short haul airlines and build C295s equipped for purpose. Since Tata owns two airlines, this may not be a huge leap of imagination.

Gupta Sir, recently Jyoti ma'am had made a comment to France24 channel regarding opposition states have more freedom, like freedom to walk and talk (I might not be quite right here). I know by saying so I open myself to a lot of ridicule and name calling. But still, I do not think she was right and accurate. She exercised her right to speech ofc. But an inaccurate comment in the media isn't appreciated. And NO. It doesn't reduce india's position and India is stronger than that, but issues of credibility come into question when sweeping comments are made. Freedom of Speech isn't free in the nation but we do know, her statement isn't true as well. Just wanted to let this out. I exercised by right to speech. And I love The Print and her shows as well.

Gupta Ji is at his best when he covers Indian defence forces and equipment. Ive seen this episode more than once and everytime I watch it, I learn something new, very well compiled and presented. I hope he does one on Submarines and one on the Sub tracking capabilities of Indian Navy. Cheers!!

"When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it." - Henry Ford

Damn! Never thought I would sit and watch an episode about some transport aircraft. Great episode and personal nuggets.

HAL should focus on designing, research and development, innovation. It should give the manufacturing to private sector.

Airbus is not ONLY FRENCH, Airbus is owned by Spanish, French and German government. And this model is 100% designed in Spain and produced in Seville Spain, as it comes from CASA, Spanish aircraft company now part of Airbus.

State competition for growth is something we should all embrace and encourage. Maharashtra and Gujarat always compete to each other. Not only that Tamilnad, Telangana, Andhra, Karnataka also compete with all other Indian states. Maharashtra’s Mihaan has dedicated facility and talent for aeronautic sector requirements.

Well researched and nicely articulated. Shekharji you made technicals a story like.

I believe that it was Napoleon who said that an army marches on its belly. This indicates the importance of logistics. The C295 will help in ferrying men and material to where they are needed. And now, it is a home grown plane.

This is archive material ! Thank you.👍

God, I hope opposition also understand that importing defence stuff and earn cut money from defence dalal is no longer good for India. We need to self sufficient atleast in logistics of defence stuffs and this govt is doing good.

Very interesting and illuminating stuff Shekhar, particular the history of such aircraft & the importance of logistics🙏

Salute to your knowledge of extreme exellency

Fairchild Packet C119 was modified with the HAL Ajeet/Marut Orpheus 701 engine by our very own HAL jugaad. Picture at 15.09 courtesy of Bharat Rakshak.

A treasure of knowledge history and iaf technology

❤ it's nice listening👍 to your News&Views&Updates daily

This is really good development. Indian is making great progress with HAL on Tajas and we have an alternate stream of manufacturing staring in private sector for transport aircrafts. lovely.

Gains: Equipment, technology, ancillary services & production, employment, strengthen IAF capabilities.

You forget the Biju Pattnaik's Dakota. He flew it to Indonesia to rescue it's president.

C295 is very versatile air craft. Beside transport ,it can be converted into ISTAR , small bomber for carpet bombing. Troops carrying , Radar scanner for sea and land ,spy plane .

Great start, India. Keep up the momentum.

Sir , India is supposed to recieve 50 boeing 737 max which were intended to be picked by china but chinese had a stick up their ass(excuse my french). SO , INDIA will recieve 50 737 before dec 2024. This is will be the quickest rise in fleet in history of aviation. I hope you read more on it and enlighten us. I can give more details, if you guys are interested. Oh..I am a b737 pilot

Must say a good line in " Amatures talk tactics....Professionals talk Logistics " .

Imagine the idiocy of Indian bureaucrats and politicians that they trusted foreign private and public sector companies more than the domestic private sector for 75 years!

It's as important as making Fighter jets. Good luck and keep it up... ❤

4:32 - The "canard" pun was a good one Guptaji. Kudos.

Thanks for sharing your 1st hand experience 🙏🙏✌️✌️

Mr.gupta has started to play to the galleries. Making most of insignificant things.

You sir, certainly know a lot about aircrafts and defence machines

What a episode...❤

SG ji quite amazing to know about your journalistic knowledge on the functioning of Army its assets and various important incidents and it’s relevance. Information not only about India and but about other countries. I salute you. I am also learning. நெல்லுக்கு இறைத்த நீர் ஆங்கே புல்லுக்கும் கசியுமாமும். As a say it is very difficult to translate proverb’s in one language into another language.

Hal has 83k crores pending orders to deliver which will be delivered in 3023😊. So much for monopoly

I worked on this last 5 years 🙏

Let HAL CONCENTRATE ONLY ON TEJAS , AND FIXING THE OTHER FIGHTER GETS . Added that it can work on defense helicopters....

This will boost aerospace engineering in India

It changed into a history lesson very fast…….!! This man is just rambling…..😅

Bangladesh Bought two C-295s in 2017, Those are very good transport aircraft.

I just span of 2 year of this plant, we have aircraft acquisition wow, compare this to Hal still waiting for 1st squadron of lca mk1a, we need more of jet project given to pvt sectors

Thanks!

Number of IL76 is not correct (reported only 6 in this report). There are seventeen IL76 - 7@Chandigarh, 7@Nagpur and 3 at Delhi. In addition, there are 6 IL-78s (mid air refulers) based at Agra.

Good luck India from aowmilig (hasina)

Very nice in depth presentation

For all they know, HAL stock price has tripled in the last 2.5 years , this should shut up those who say what will happen to HAL 😅

This aircraft will path the way for manufacturing of popular commercial aircraft in category of A320/1 350 etc. If it is not today, may be 10 years down the line.

Beautiful narration.🙏🙏🙏

What are the geopolitical implications of India's shift towards partnerships and acquisitions in aviation, including its alignment with the U.S. as a supplier, and how might this impact regional dynamics?

The Behemoth Tata group being in the automobile manufacturing since 70 years still uses American Cummins engines in commercial vehicles and Fiat licenced engine in their flagship SUVs, The Tatas still haven't designed and developed their own commercial vehicle engine in these last 70 years ,😢😢😢😢

So good

Even if HAL is full of orders it still needs private partnership to expand, the market for LCH , LCA has expanded due to the Ukraine war

how collectively Guptaji gets all the clutter first, then cuts through it

Aircrafts have been in use for nearly 100 years now and thanks to HAL we don't have a 100% indigenous passenger and AF capability aircraft. Thanks to HAL and government restrictions, embargo & sanctions west always had upper hand. Today is the age of drone - no human casualty in air, battleground and sea can be imagined however note these western governments seem to entice us in with out dated weaponry and battlefield tactics. Indian defence need to adopt technology,like Israelis and use this type of aircraft for the udaan program for internal logistics. At the same time develop sophisticated drone military and exoskeleton soldiers who are in 1:100 human ratio. Sometimes I wonder why our country wastes so much money in defence, if right education and civilian training could have cost effectively balanced such security concerns. All ILP residents must have access to defensive weapons for the country's safeguards. DRDO must get in to tactical missile development on drone operated vehicles that are using India's indigenous satelite program with redundant backup of western and commi satellites to be effective.

Hope India build 360 degree capable AWACs soon based on this platform

Thanks to HAL we are 10+ years late on completion of delivery of Tejus MK1 forget getting MK2 until 2035

Master class from SG! 👍🌹

Thanks once again to Modi ji. Make In India. Modi hai toh mumkin hai. Now India private aircraft manufacturers will multiply. Next step, all world class aircraft be Made In India. Jai Bharat.

TRANSPORT AIRCRAFT ARE KEY FOR TRANSPORTING TROOPS & LARGE EQUIPMENT ….They are CRITICAL to any LARGE, MODERN MILITARY

India needs food production as Indians can not eat bullets. Roti is needs food and fight poverty.

This Govt policy appears to be that First Receipt will be imported. Hence forth, better start making in India and no more imports. A good policy , I think.

Kitna deti hai?

HAL will also have super sukhoi upgrade

Our CM is encouraging citizens, to make fritters.

C295 should be manufactured in thousand in india both for defence as well as civilian use . Low cost airport completly far away from big airport and a chain of low cost civilian flight connecting b class cities . One thousand c295 for civilian use and two thousand for army ,airforce and navy each one having 800 aircraft

rahul will not act like cry baby in tata-airbus joint venture

Gupta ji is graying😂 Nostalgia

Yup, congrats indeed. I am sure this aircraft can fly to the moon

Make in India 🇮🇳 is just a myth We only make tyres

After foreign inputs and license manufacturing of engines and airframes, over nearly 80 years, the 1.5 billion Indians cannot design and build their own aircraft, relying here on the 50 million Spanish to supply basic transport aircraft for them. I find this level of performance to be sub- optimal: even the Indonesians are able to innovate in their collaboration , and certainly the Chinese too.

The transport C-295 is Spanish not French. It's from CASA.

As you said Logistics is the first

Good that HAL has competition. But professionalism has to be inculcated in HAL

“Sirf savings se kaam nahi chalega” !!

Why India not buying V22osprey to get tactical advantage?

HAL and DRDO should only focus on new technology and coming up with prototypes... Real production should be given to Private sectors SO that we can go parallel with rest of the world otherwise we will stay one genaration behind them like we are in the early stages of building 5th gen fighter while europe and USA are in early stages of 6th gen fighters

ShekarJi Only 2-3 min for current news. Other history has been told on earlier episodes. Why waste time of regular listeners.

2.01 sec ,I was waiting for The print to show its actual agenda and intention. Just create Rift and enemity

please make a video on the vangaurd group and blackrock

Would this be an opening for the Airbus A400M for India? It should be noted that the C295 is itself derived from the CASA/IPTN C235, a joint Spanish and Indonesian aircraft. Currently, Indonesia is a hub for the C295 production as well.

A400M should be manufactured.

Gujarath is in striking distance from pKiathan , ideal location is in south india

Don't forget to buy hal shares. Its booming

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Every state is competing with Gujarat. Every state is losing only Gujarat is winning. I really doubt if this is truly a competition.

But the Fact is Maharashtra is losing 😢

Informative but a long narrative that clouds your perception.

Waiting for pappu to say "Rafael ghotala......Rafael ghotala repeating......."

Maharashtra receives 15 billion fdi 3 times the gujrat now who is there to say gujrat is taking all our investment. Saudi signed memorandom with gov to invest 50 billion in refinery in Maharashtra no one appreciated this

Thanks! The PRIVATE SECTOR is the BEST WAY to go-far too much CORRUPTION & DELAY occurs with public industry….Transport Aircraft will be CRITICAL to Indian Military.

C295 IS SPANISH, NOT FRENCH

Start taking for the public and against the system... And may be ... May be ur subscribers will grow...

Im bjp supporter but i like this guy

If the contract was given to Adani at least would be sure the stock share value would fly high 😂

Situating the appreciation it is called. Wonder if the decision makers were as wise and profound as Mr Gupta. Please do put out the sequence of this decision.Originator?IAF? Information isn't always wisdom.

DRDO needs to develop laser guided pallet bombs from standoff distances.

Why does the body panel looks like arm and hammer manufacturing. Looks like a bunch of Karigars have taken a mold and beat the panel against it.

It is natural that PM would want to develop Gujarat, However positing vital Defence Industries in Gujarat may not be wise. It is a state that borders Pakistan. In time of conflict, these factories become easy targets. These industries should be located in Central or Southern India which are far from the border. The distance from the border offers some additional security.

Punjab is left for army personnel, langar sewa and few athletes and ofcource useless singers… Canada should allow some percentage of punjabi. I though changing govt would affect in industry but aap govt focus is to provide free things for few votes… My current analysis is punjab should choose the govt who is in power in center