{"id":281115,"date":"2019-07-09T06:32:01","date_gmt":"2019-07-09T06:32:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=281115"},"modified":"2019-07-09T06:43:23","modified_gmt":"2019-07-09T06:43:23","slug":"two-more-us-built-chinook-choppers-for-iaf-reach-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/two-more-us-built-chinook-choppers-for-iaf-reach-india\/","title":{"rendered":"Two more US-built Chinook choppers for IAF reach India"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>US defence firm Boeing on Monday announced the arrival of two more CH-47F (I) Chinooks for the Indian Air Force at the Mundra port in Gujarat, five months after helicopter deliveries began. Boeing delivered the first four of the 15 Chinook heavy-lift helicopters on order in February.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe arrival of the two Chinooks is in line with the planned delivery schedule, as well as Boeing\u2019s commitment to ensuring the modernization and mission readiness of the IAF,\u201d the company said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>The Chinooks, ordered in September 2015, will be assembled and flown to their home base in Chandigarh where the first four choppers were formally inducted in the IAF in March.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US defence firm Boeing on Monday announced the arrival of two more CH-47F (I) Chinooks for the Indian Air Force at the Mundra port in Gujarat, five months after helicopter deliveries began. Boeing delivered the first four of the 15 Chinook heavy-lift helicopters on order in February. \u201cThe arrival of the two Chinooks is in line with the planned delivery schedule, as well as Boeing\u2019s commitment to ensuring the modernization and mission readiness of the IAF,\u201d the company said in a statement. The Chinooks, ordered in September 2015, will be assembled and flown to their home base in Chandigarh where [&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":[184,141,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-281115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-hindustantimes","category-hindustantimes","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281115","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=281115"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281115\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=281115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=281115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=281115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}