{"id":307616,"date":"2019-12-28T10:11:51","date_gmt":"2019-12-28T04:41:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=307616"},"modified":"2019-12-28T10:22:32","modified_gmt":"2019-12-28T04:52:32","slug":"iaf-bids-farewell-to-mig-27-fighter-jet-takes-final-sortie-in-jodhpur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/iaf-bids-farewell-to-mig-27-fighter-jet-takes-final-sortie-in-jodhpur\/","title":{"rendered":"IAF bids farewell to MiG-27, fighter jet takes final sortie in Jodhpur"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It was an emotional moment for the airmen of the Indian Air Force as the iconic MiG-27, which played an important role during the 1999 Kargil war, roared through the skies for the last time on Friday after serving the force for over three decades. <\/p>\n<p>The swing-wing fighter had been the backbone of ground-attack fleet of the Indian Air Force (IAF) and was decommissioned at a grand ceremony held at the Jodhpur Air Base. <\/p>\n<p>The base had the last fleet of seven MiG-27 attached to Squadron No 29, also known as the &#8216;Scorpions&#8217;, which had its last sortie on Friday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was an emotional moment for the airmen of the Indian Air Force as the iconic MiG-27, which played an important role during the 1999 Kargil war, roared through the skies for the last time on Friday after serving the force for over three decades. The swing-wing fighter had been the backbone of ground-attack fleet of the Indian Air Force (IAF) and was decommissioned at a grand ceremony held at the Jodhpur Air Base. The base had the last fleet of seven MiG-27 attached to Squadron No 29, also known as the &#8216;Scorpions&#8217;, which had its last sortie on Friday.<\/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":[135,130,168],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-307616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-roads-business-standard-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307616","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=307616"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307616\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=307616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=307616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=307616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}