{"id":296243,"date":"2019-10-15T12:29:58","date_gmt":"2019-10-15T06:59:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=296243"},"modified":"2019-10-15T12:29:58","modified_gmt":"2019-10-15T06:59:58","slug":"apache-choppers-need-integration-with-ground-forces-experts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/apache-choppers-need-integration-with-ground-forces-experts\/","title":{"rendered":"Apache choppers need integration with ground forces: Experts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: With 22 Apache helicopters set to join the Indian Air Force (IAF) by March 2020, defence experts have raised the need for integrating the multi-role combat choppers with ground forces for better operational capabilities, logistics and training.<\/p>\n<p>Eight units of the US-made combat helicopter Apache AH64E (I) &#8212; where &#8216;I&#8217; stands for India-specific enhancements &#8212; were inducted into the 25 Squadron of the IAF in Pathankot in September. India has entered into a multi-billion contract with US aviation major Boeing in September 2015 for acquiring 22 Apache choppers in flyaway condition.<\/p>\n<p>Subsequently, the central government signed another contract worth Rs 4,168 crore for acquiring six Apache choppers for the Army.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: With 22 Apache helicopters set to join the Indian Air Force (IAF) by March 2020, defence experts have raised the need for integrating the multi-role combat choppers with ground forces for better operational capabilities, logistics and training. Eight units of the US-made combat helicopter Apache AH64E (I) &#8212; where &#8216;I&#8217; stands for India-specific enhancements &#8212; were inducted into the 25 Squadron of the IAF in Pathankot in September. India has entered into a multi-billion contract with US aviation major Boeing in September 2015 for acquiring 22 Apache choppers in flyaway condition. Subsequently, the central government signed another contract [&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-296243","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\/296243","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=296243"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296243\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=296243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=296243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=296243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}