{"id":292320,"date":"2019-09-18T05:12:23","date_gmt":"2019-09-18T05:12:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=292320"},"modified":"2019-09-18T05:12:23","modified_gmt":"2019-09-18T05:12:23","slug":"why-rafale-jets-may-be-inducted-into-iaf-by-next-summer-only","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/why-rafale-jets-may-be-inducted-into-iaf-by-next-summer-only\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Rafale jets may be inducted into IAF by next summer only"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI : Come October and India should be receiving the first of 36 French-built Rafale aircraft that the Air Force has long been waiting for.<\/p>\n<p>The \u201cmulti-role&#8221; or \u201comnirole&#8221; aircraft\u2014as the manufacturer Dassault Aviation calls it\u2014aims to add teeth to the capabilities of the Indian Air Force, given its reputation of being the best 4+ generation fighter jet. Its capabilities include air-defence or air-superiority, it can be flown on reconnaissance missions and give close air support; it can undertake air-to-ground precision strikes, carry nuclear and conventional payloads, used for anti-ship attacks and allows re-fuelling between two Rafale aircraft without having to wait for mid-air refuelling tankers.<\/p>\n<p>So, once the handover happens\u2014at Dassault\u2019s Merignac facility in the southwestern province of Bordeaux\u2014 how will the aircraft get to India? And why does India have to wait till April or May next year to see the Rafale fly over its skies?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI : Come October and India should be receiving the first of 36 French-built Rafale aircraft that the Air Force has long been waiting for. The \u201cmulti-role&#8221; or \u201comnirole&#8221; aircraft\u2014as the manufacturer Dassault Aviation calls it\u2014aims to add teeth to the capabilities of the Indian Air Force, given its reputation of being the best 4+ generation fighter jet. Its capabilities include air-defence or air-superiority, it can be flown on reconnaissance missions and give close air support; it can undertake air-to-ground precision strikes, carry nuclear and conventional payloads, used for anti-ship attacks and allows re-fuelling between two Rafale aircraft without [&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":[188,139,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-292320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-live-mint","category-live-mint","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292320","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=292320"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292320\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=292320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=292320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=292320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}