{"id":288960,"date":"2019-08-27T06:39:43","date_gmt":"2019-08-27T06:39:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=288960"},"modified":"2019-08-27T06:52:37","modified_gmt":"2019-08-27T06:52:37","slug":"boeing-delivers-11th-c-17-globemaster-aircraft-to-iaf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/boeing-delivers-11th-c-17-globemaster-aircraft-to-iaf\/","title":{"rendered":"Boeing delivers 11th C-17 Globemaster aircraft to IAF"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a significant boost to the IAF\u2019s strategic airlift capabilities, Boeing, the manufacturer of C-17 Globemaster transport aircraft, delivered the 11th plane to the IAF on Monday. This came about after the Government last year approved procurement of three additional C-17s at a cost of Rs 8,000 crore. <\/p>\n<p>At present, the IAF has ten planes with the induction beginning in 2013. The deal inked in 2011 was worth 4.7 billion dollars. The contract had an option clause of buying six more planes but shortage of funds delayed the induction of more planes. <\/p>\n<p>The C-17 fleet is a vital fleet of the IAF\u2019s combat airlift capability as the plane can land in toughest of places thereby ensuring logistic support to the troops deployed in remote areas guarding the Line of Actual Control (LAC) facing China and Line of Control(LoC)with Pakistan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a significant boost to the IAF\u2019s strategic airlift capabilities, Boeing, the manufacturer of C-17 Globemaster transport aircraft, delivered the 11th plane to the IAF on Monday. This came about after the Government last year approved procurement of three additional C-17s at a cost of Rs 8,000 crore. At present, the IAF has ten planes with the induction beginning in 2013. The deal inked in 2011 was worth 4.7 billion dollars. The contract had an option clause of buying six more planes but shortage of funds delayed the induction of more planes. The C-17 fleet is a vital fleet of [&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-288960","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\/288960","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=288960"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288960\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=288960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=288960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=288960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}