{"id":259952,"date":"2019-02-20T05:29:27","date_gmt":"2019-02-20T05:29:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=259952"},"modified":"2019-02-20T05:41:18","modified_gmt":"2019-02-20T05:41:18","slug":"india-keeps-fighter-jet-makers-waiting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/india-keeps-fighter-jet-makers-waiting\/","title":{"rendered":"India keeps fighter jet makers waiting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>India is still seeking to replace its Soviet-era MiG aircraft, while countries such as Japan and South Korea have acquired modern stealth fighters such as Lockheed\u2019s F-35<br \/>\nIn the world of multi-billion dollar defence contracts, India stands out.<\/p>\n<p>The world\u2019s biggest arms importer, with an annual defence 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.<\/p>\n<p>Although drawn-out negotiations are not uncommon in the arms world, India took 32 years to seal a deal with the United States (US) to buy 145 howitzers from BAE Systems Plc, with arcane procurement rules and shifting specifications contributing to the lengthy delays.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India is still seeking to replace its Soviet-era MiG aircraft, while countries such as Japan and South Korea have acquired modern stealth fighters such as Lockheed\u2019s F-35 In the world of multi-billion dollar defence contracts, India stands out. The world\u2019s biggest arms importer, with an annual defence 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. Although drawn-out negotiations are not uncommon in the arms world, India took 32 years to seal a deal with the United States (US) to [&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":[130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-259952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259952","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=259952"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259952\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=259952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=259952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=259952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}