{"id":260192,"date":"2019-02-21T04:58:36","date_gmt":"2019-02-21T04:58:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=260192"},"modified":"2019-02-21T05:21:13","modified_gmt":"2019-02-21T05:21:13","slug":"eye-on-15-bn-deal-lockheed-unveils-new-f-21-combat-jet-at-aero-india-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/eye-on-15-bn-deal-lockheed-unveils-new-f-21-combat-jet-at-aero-india-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Eye on $15 bn deal, Lockheed unveils new F-21 combat jet at Aero India 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lockheed Martin offered India a new combat jet, F-21, on Wednesday to be made locally, in a bid to win a large military order worth over $15 billion.<\/p>\n<p>The US defence firm had earlier offered its F-16 fighter used by countries around the world for the Indian air force&#8217;s ongoing competition for 114 planes to be made in India.<\/p>\n<p>But Lockheed, unveiling the plan at an airshow in the southern city of Bengaluru, said it was offering India a new plane configured for its needs.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The F-21 is different, inside and out,&#8221; Vivek Lall, vice president of Strategy and Business Development for Lockheed Martin Aeronautics, said in a statement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lockheed Martin offered India a new combat jet, F-21, on Wednesday to be made locally, in a bid to win a large military order worth over $15 billion. The US defence firm had earlier offered its F-16 fighter used by countries around the world for the Indian air force&#8217;s ongoing competition for 114 planes to be made in India. But Lockheed, unveiling the plan at an airshow in the southern city of Bengaluru, said it was offering India a new plane configured for its needs. &#8220;The F-21 is different, inside and out,&#8221; Vivek Lall, vice president of Strategy and Business [&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-260192","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\/260192","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=260192"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260192\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=260192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=260192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=260192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}