{"id":291149,"date":"2019-09-11T05:39:08","date_gmt":"2019-09-11T05:39:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=291149"},"modified":"2019-09-11T05:39:08","modified_gmt":"2019-09-11T05:39:08","slug":"iaf-chief-dhanoa-resurrects-his-former-squadron-to-receive-the-rafale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/iaf-chief-dhanoa-resurrects-his-former-squadron-to-receive-the-rafale\/","title":{"rendered":"IAF chief Dhanoa &#8216;resurrects&#8217; his former squadron to receive the Rafale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Indian Air Force (IAF) chief, Air Chief Marshal BS Dhanoa, who retires from service in another 20 days, has given the kiss of life as a parting present to the squadron he commanded during the Kargil War.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, at a solemn ceremony in Ambala, Dhanoa formally \u201cresurrected\u201d Number 17 Squadron, also known as the \u201cGolden Arrows\u201d, which was retired from the active list five years ago when its MiG-21Ms were phased out of service.<\/p>\n<p>The resurrected Golden Arrows will be the first IAF squadron to be equipped with the Rafale fighter, which French firm Dassault is scheduled to begin supplying this month. This Rafale squadron will be based in Ambala and operationally committed to the India-Pakistan frontier.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Indian Air Force (IAF) chief, Air Chief Marshal BS Dhanoa, who retires from service in another 20 days, has given the kiss of life as a parting present to the squadron he commanded during the Kargil War. On Tuesday, at a solemn ceremony in Ambala, Dhanoa formally \u201cresurrected\u201d Number 17 Squadron, also known as the \u201cGolden Arrows\u201d, which was retired from the active list five years ago when its MiG-21Ms were phased out of service. The resurrected Golden Arrows will be the first IAF squadron to be equipped with the Rafale fighter, which French firm Dassault is scheduled to begin [&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-291149","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\/291149","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=291149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291149\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=291149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=291149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=291149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}