{"id":280125,"date":"2019-07-04T05:30:46","date_gmt":"2019-07-04T05:30:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=280125"},"modified":"2019-07-04T05:30:46","modified_gmt":"2019-07-04T05:30:46","slug":"worlds-largest-fighter-jet-deal-underway-as-india-starts-process","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/worlds-largest-fighter-jet-deal-underway-as-india-starts-process\/","title":{"rendered":"World&#8217;s largest fighter jet deal underway as India starts process"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>India moved a step closer to inviting bids for the purchase of 114 fighter jets, currently the world\u2019s largest deal in play, as Prime Minister Narendra Modi seeks to boost the capability of the country\u2019s armed forces and replace an aging combat aircraft fleet.<\/p>\n<p>The deal \u2014 valued at more than $15 billion \u2014 has attracted initial offers from global defence majors, including Boeing, Lockheed Martin, and Sweden\u2019s Saab. At least 85 per cent of production has to be in India, according to an initial document issued more than a year back.<\/p>\n<p>Modernising the country\u2019s defence forces is critical for Modi, who hardly signed any new major arms deals during his first term, even as twin threats from neighbouring China and Pakistan loomed. A Pakistani F-16 jet downed an aging Soviet-era MiG 21 \u2014 Indian Air Force\u2019s mainstay \u2014 in a dogfight during a military confrontation earlier this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India moved a step closer to inviting bids for the purchase of 114 fighter jets, currently the world\u2019s largest deal in play, as Prime Minister Narendra Modi seeks to boost the capability of the country\u2019s armed forces and replace an aging combat aircraft fleet. The deal \u2014 valued at more than $15 billion \u2014 has attracted initial offers from global defence majors, including Boeing, Lockheed Martin, and Sweden\u2019s Saab. At least 85 per cent of production has to be in India, according to an initial document issued more than a year back. Modernising the country\u2019s defence forces is critical for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"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-280125","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\/280125","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\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=280125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280125\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=280125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=280125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=280125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}