{"id":273792,"date":"2019-05-13T05:06:29","date_gmt":"2019-05-13T05:06:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=273792"},"modified":"2019-05-13T05:26:29","modified_gmt":"2019-05-13T05:26:29","slug":"iaf-gets-its-first-apache-attack-helicopter-from-boeing-21-more-to-come","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/iaf-gets-its-first-apache-attack-helicopter-from-boeing-21-more-to-come\/","title":{"rendered":"IAF gets its first Apache attack helicopter from Boeing, 21 more to come"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Boeing handed over to the Indian Air Force (IAF) on Friday the first of the 22 Apache attack helicopters that India had contracted to buy in September 2015 for about $3 billion at current prices. <\/p>\n<p>Air Marshal A S Butola travelled to Boeing&#8217;s helicopter production facility at Mesa, Arizona, to attend the handing over ceremony, alongside US government officials. <\/p>\n<p>The IAF is buying the latest version of the Apache, designated the AH-64E (I) Apache Guardian. The first batch of four-six helicopters will be shipped to India in July, said the defence ministry. <\/p>\n<p>The Apaches are being acquired through a hybrid contract. The helicopter itself has been contracted through a &#8220;direct commercial sale&#8221; with Boeing. However, the radar and assortment of weaponry including missiles, rockets and cannon bullets, are being acquired directly from the Pentagon through a &#8220;foreign military sale&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Boeing handed over to the Indian Air Force (IAF) on Friday the first of the 22 Apache attack helicopters that India had contracted to buy in September 2015 for about $3 billion at current prices. Air Marshal A S Butola travelled to Boeing&#8217;s helicopter production facility at Mesa, Arizona, to attend the handing over ceremony, alongside US government officials. The IAF is buying the latest version of the Apache, designated the AH-64E (I) Apache Guardian. The first batch of four-six helicopters will be shipped to India in July, said the defence ministry. The Apaches are being acquired through a hybrid [&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-273792","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\/273792","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=273792"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273792\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=273792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=273792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}