{"id":266162,"date":"2019-03-25T07:20:17","date_gmt":"2019-03-25T07:20:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=266162"},"modified":"2019-03-25T07:21:46","modified_gmt":"2019-03-25T07:21:46","slug":"iaf-inducts-4-combat-ready-chinook-helicopters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/iaf-inducts-4-combat-ready-chinook-helicopters\/","title":{"rendered":"IAF inducts 4 combat-ready Chinook helicopters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chandigarh, March 25 (IANS) Air Chief Marshal B.S. Dhanoa on Monday formally inducted four US-made Chinook heavy-lift helicopters at Air Force Station 12 Wing in New Delhi.<\/p>\n<p>Two hangars and logistics facilities were created in New Delhi for the Chinook helicopters.<\/p>\n<p>Each Chinook helicopter has a payload capacity of about 10 tonne which is a major boost to India\u2019s strategic airlift capability.<\/p>\n<p>The Indian Air Force (IAF) received its first CH-47F (I) Chinook on February 10 at the Mundra port in Gujarat.<\/p>\n<p>The Chinook will be used to move troops, artillery, ammunition, supplies and equipment on the battlefield. Besides, they can be used for medical evacuation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chandigarh, March 25 (IANS) Air Chief Marshal B.S. Dhanoa on Monday formally inducted four US-made Chinook heavy-lift helicopters at Air Force Station 12 Wing in New Delhi. Two hangars and logistics facilities were created in New Delhi for the Chinook helicopters. Each Chinook helicopter has a payload capacity of about 10 tonne which is a major boost to India\u2019s strategic airlift capability. The Indian Air Force (IAF) received its first CH-47F (I) Chinook on February 10 at the Mundra port in Gujarat. The Chinook will be used to move troops, artillery, ammunition, supplies and equipment on the battlefield. Besides, they [&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":[184,141,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-266162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-hindustantimes","category-hindustantimes","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266162","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=266162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266162\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=266162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=266162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=266162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}