{"id":295521,"date":"2019-10-09T11:47:11","date_gmt":"2019-10-09T06:17:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=295521"},"modified":"2019-10-09T12:13:28","modified_gmt":"2019-10-09T06:43:28","slug":"indias-rafale-edge-a-look-at-the-special-features-of-the-fighter-aircraft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/indias-rafale-edge-a-look-at-the-special-features-of-the-fighter-aircraft\/","title":{"rendered":"India&#8217;s Rafale edge: A look at the special features of the fighter aircraft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After a 15-year procurement process, India got its first Rafale jet at a ceremony in France on Tuesday, with Defence Minister Rajnath Singh taking a sortie in the combat aircraft. The first aircraft will arrive in India only in May &#8211; a batch of four Rafale jets will be dispatched to the Ambala airbase after training pilots. ET takes a look at the special features of the fighter aircraft.<\/p>\n<p>What it Means?<br \/>\nFor almost two decades, the IAF has been perceived to be handicapped on long-range weapons and sensors vis-a-vis PAF<\/p>\n<p>Rafale will reverse this &amp; give IAF the decisive edge with better sensors and weapons. Each Rafale in the air would require at least two F16s for a counter-challenge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a 15-year procurement process, India got its first Rafale jet at a ceremony in France on Tuesday, with Defence Minister Rajnath Singh taking a sortie in the combat aircraft. The first aircraft will arrive in India only in May &#8211; a batch of four Rafale jets will be dispatched to the Ambala airbase after training pilots. ET takes a look at the special features of the fighter aircraft. What it Means? For almost two decades, the IAF has been perceived to be handicapped on long-range weapons and sensors vis-a-vis PAF Rafale will reverse this &amp; give IAF the decisive [&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":[192,130,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-295521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295521","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=295521"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295521\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=295521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=295521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=295521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}