{"id":304726,"date":"2019-12-09T11:14:21","date_gmt":"2019-12-09T05:44:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=304726"},"modified":"2019-12-09T11:29:51","modified_gmt":"2019-12-09T05:59:51","slug":"30-rafales-to-have-tail-numbers-with-bs-initials-in-ex-iaf-chiefs-honour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/30-rafales-to-have-tail-numbers-with-bs-initials-in-ex-iaf-chiefs-honour\/","title":{"rendered":"30 Rafales to have tail numbers with BS initials in ex-IAF chief\u2019s honour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The IAF has decided to put tail numbers in 30 Rafale jets with the \u2018BS\u2019 initials to honour former Chief B S Dhanoa.  He had backed the Rs 59,000 crore deal for 36 Rafale jets to be procured from France under a Government to Government deal during his tenure.  Dhanoa retired from service in September.<\/p>\n<p>Six Rafale trainer aircraft will carry &#8216;RB&#8217; series tail numbers which stand for Air Chief Marshal RKS Bhadauria, the current Chief of Air Staff who played a key role as lead negotiator for the mega deal.<\/p>\n<p>The political controversy relating to purchase of 36 Rafale jets from French aerospace major Dassault Aviation peaked during Dhanoa&#8217;s tenure as chief of the air staff and he had stoutly defended the deal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The IAF has decided to put tail numbers in 30 Rafale jets with the \u2018BS\u2019 initials to honour former Chief B S Dhanoa. He had backed the Rs 59,000 crore deal for 36 Rafale jets to be procured from France under a Government to Government deal during his tenure. Dhanoa retired from service in September. Six Rafale trainer aircraft will carry &#8216;RB&#8217; series tail numbers which stand for Air Chief Marshal RKS Bhadauria, the current Chief of Air Staff who played a key role as lead negotiator for the mega deal. The political controversy relating to purchase of 36 Rafale [&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-304726","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\/304726","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=304726"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304726\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=304726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=304726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=304726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}