{"id":259881,"date":"2019-02-20T04:51:00","date_gmt":"2019-02-20T04:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=259881"},"modified":"2019-02-20T04:58:34","modified_gmt":"2019-02-20T04:58:34","slug":"despite-an-urgent-need-india-keeps-fighter-jet-makers-waiting-for-decades","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/despite-an-urgent-need-india-keeps-fighter-jet-makers-waiting-for-decades\/","title":{"rendered":"Despite an urgent need, India keeps fighter jet makers waiting for decades"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the world of multibillion dollar defense contracts, India stands out.<\/p>\n<p>Home to one of the biggest armed forces on the planet, the country has an uneasy co-existence with neighbors Pakistan and China. Its rapidly aging fighter jets make it a lucrative potential prize for the likes of Lockheed Martin Corp. and Boeing Co. While India wants to upgrade its fleet, there\u2019s one big road block: New Delhi\u2019s famed red tape.<\/p>\n<p>The country &#8212; the world\u2019s biggest arms importer, with an annual defense budget of $43 billion &#8212; has been dangling a potential $15 billion fighter jet deal for more than a decade, with Lockheed and Boeing, the world\u2019s two largest contractors, vying for the chance to refit India\u2019s air force.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the world of multibillion dollar defense contracts, India stands out. Home to one of the biggest armed forces on the planet, the country has an uneasy co-existence with neighbors Pakistan and China. Its rapidly aging fighter jets make it a lucrative potential prize for the likes of Lockheed Martin Corp. and Boeing Co. While India wants to upgrade its fleet, there\u2019s one big road block: New Delhi\u2019s famed red tape. The country &#8212; the world\u2019s biggest arms importer, with an annual defense budget of $43 billion &#8212; has been dangling a potential $15 billion fighter jet deal for more [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,167,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-259881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-civil-aviation-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259881","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=259881"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259881\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=259881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=259881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=259881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}