{"id":266611,"date":"2019-03-27T06:49:00","date_gmt":"2019-03-27T06:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=266611"},"modified":"2019-03-27T06:49:00","modified_gmt":"2019-03-27T06:49:00","slug":"iaf-inducts-chinook-helicopters-as-us-muscles-into-russias-copter-monopoly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/iaf-inducts-chinook-helicopters-as-us-muscles-into-russias-copter-monopoly\/","title":{"rendered":"IAF inducts Chinook helicopters as US muscles into Russia&#8217;s copter monopoly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Indian Air Force\u2019s (IAF\u2019s) first four Chinook CH-47F helicopters that Air Chief Marshal B S Dhanoa inducted into the fleet on Monday will swell within a year to a fleet size of 15 choppers. <\/p>\n<p>Senior IAF officers say that this $1.5 billion purchase from US firm, Boeing, which was signed in September 2015, will almost certainly be followed by an additional order. <\/p>\n<p>Given the Chinook\u2019s utility, both in war and in disaster relief missions in peacetime, more of these helicopters are needed for a country India\u2019s size. <\/p>\n<p>The Chinook replaces the Russian Mi-26 in the heavy lift class \u2014 the first helicopter category in which America has supplanted Russia\u2019s dominance in India. Later this year, after the induction of Boeing\u2019s Apache AH-64E attack helicopters, Russian Mi-35s will start being retired.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Indian Air Force\u2019s (IAF\u2019s) first four Chinook CH-47F helicopters that Air Chief Marshal B S Dhanoa inducted into the fleet on Monday will swell within a year to a fleet size of 15 choppers. Senior IAF officers say that this $1.5 billion purchase from US firm, Boeing, which was signed in September 2015, will almost certainly be followed by an additional order. Given the Chinook\u2019s utility, both in war and in disaster relief missions in peacetime, more of these helicopters are needed for a country India\u2019s size. The Chinook replaces the Russian Mi-26 in the heavy lift class \u2014 [&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-266611","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\/266611","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=266611"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266611\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=266611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=266611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=266611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}