{"id":339407,"date":"2020-02-28T11:14:28","date_gmt":"2020-02-28T05:44:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=339407"},"modified":"2020-02-28T11:47:23","modified_gmt":"2020-02-28T06:17:23","slug":"navy-to-buy-24-mh-60r-multi-role-helicopters-from-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/navy-to-buy-24-mh-60r-multi-role-helicopters-from-us\/","title":{"rendered":"Navy to buy 24 MH-60R multi-role helicopters from US"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two days after signing a $3-billion defence deal related to the acquisition of Seahawk multi-role helicopters for the Indian Navy and Apache attack helicopters for the Army, the Indian Navy has announced that 24 MH-60R multi-role helicopters (MRH) will be procured under the Buy (Global) category through Foreign Military Sales. A contract for the MRH was signed on February 25.<\/p>\n<p>India and the US have concluded defence deals for 24 MH-60R MRH and six AH-64E Apache helicopters.<\/p>\n<p>The Indian Navy said the MH-60R MRH are a replacement for the Sea King 42\/42A helicopters, inducted in the 1970s and decommissioned in the 1990s. The Lockheed Martin-built helicopters are envisaged to operate from frontline ships and aircraft carriers providing them critical attributes of flexibility of operation, enhanced surveillance and attack capability.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two days after signing a $3-billion defence deal related to the acquisition of Seahawk multi-role helicopters for the Indian Navy and Apache attack helicopters for the Army, the Indian Navy has announced that 24 MH-60R multi-role helicopters (MRH) will be procured under the Buy (Global) category through Foreign Military Sales. A contract for the MRH was signed on February 25. India and the US have concluded defence deals for 24 MH-60R MRH and six AH-64E Apache helicopters. The Indian Navy said the MH-60R MRH are a replacement for the Sea King 42\/42A helicopters, inducted in the 1970s and decommissioned in [&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":[130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-339407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339407","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=339407"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339407\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=339407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=339407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=339407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}