{"id":267841,"date":"2019-04-03T06:36:47","date_gmt":"2019-04-03T06:36:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=267841"},"modified":"2019-04-03T07:04:06","modified_gmt":"2019-04-03T07:04:06","slug":"us-approves-sale-of-24-mh-60-romeo-seahawk-helicopters-to-india-for-usd-2-4-bn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/us-approves-sale-of-24-mh-60-romeo-seahawk-helicopters-to-india-for-usd-2-4-bn\/","title":{"rendered":"US approves sale of 24 MH 60 Romeo Seahawk helicopters to India for USD 2.4 bn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The US has approved the sale of 24 multi-role MH-60 &#8216;Romeo&#8217; Seahawk helicopters to India at an estimated cost of USD2.4 billion, the State Department has said.<\/p>\n<p>India has been in need of these formidable anti-submarine hunter helicopters for more than a decade now.<\/p>\n<p>Designed for hunting submarines as well as knocking out ships and conducting search-and-rescue operations at sea, the Lockheed Martin-built helicopters, would replenish India&#8217;s aging fleet of British-made Sea King helicopters.<\/p>\n<p>The Trump Administration on Tuesday notified the Congress that it has approve sale of 24 MH-60R multi-mission helicopters, which will provide the Indian defence forces the capability to perform anti-surface and anti-submarine warfare missions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US has approved the sale of 24 multi-role MH-60 &#8216;Romeo&#8217; Seahawk helicopters to India at an estimated cost of USD2.4 billion, the State Department has said. India has been in need of these formidable anti-submarine hunter helicopters for more than a decade now. Designed for hunting submarines as well as knocking out ships and conducting search-and-rescue operations at sea, the Lockheed Martin-built helicopters, would replenish India&#8217;s aging fleet of British-made Sea King helicopters. The Trump Administration on Tuesday notified the Congress that it has approve sale of 24 MH-60R multi-mission helicopters, which will provide the Indian defence forces the [&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":[212,130,144],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-267841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-the-pioneer","category-newspapers","category-the-pioneer"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267841","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=267841"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267841\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=267841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=267841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=267841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}