{"id":280760,"date":"2019-07-06T07:05:07","date_gmt":"2019-07-06T07:05:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=280760"},"modified":"2019-07-06T07:13:05","modified_gmt":"2019-07-06T07:13:05","slug":"first-rafale-to-be-delivered-in-2-months","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/first-rafale-to-be-delivered-in-2-months\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;First Rafale to be delivered in 2 months&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>French Ambassador to India Alexandre Ziegler on Friday said the first Rafale fighter aircraft will be delivered within two months and it will be &#8220;perfectly on time&#8221;. The senior diplomat told PTI on the sidelines of a function here that all 36 Rafale jets will be delivered to the Indian Air Force within the next two years. <\/p>\n<p>Calling it an excellent aircraft, he said it would add a lot to the capacity of the Indian Air Force.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The first Rafale will be delivered to the Indian Air Force (IAF) in two months from now, I think in September, perfectly on time. Thirty-six will come within the next two years,&#8221; Ziegler said.<\/p>\n<p>Hailing the partnership between the two nations, he said, &#8220;Look at the track record we have developed in cooperation with India in the past 50 years. The IAF has been flying with French technology, and Indo-French technology because there is a large amount of technology that we have co-developed.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>French Ambassador to India Alexandre Ziegler on Friday said the first Rafale fighter aircraft will be delivered within two months and it will be &#8220;perfectly on time&#8221;. The senior diplomat told PTI on the sidelines of a function here that all 36 Rafale jets will be delivered to the Indian Air Force within the next two years. Calling it an excellent aircraft, he said it would add a lot to the capacity of the Indian Air Force. &#8220;The first Rafale will be delivered to the Indian Air Force (IAF) in two months from now, I think in September, perfectly on [&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":[176,146,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-280760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-deccan-herald-newspapers","category-deccan-herald-newspapers","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280760","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=280760"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280760\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=280760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=280760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=280760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}