{"id":361036,"date":"2020-07-03T12:00:10","date_gmt":"2020-07-03T06:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=361036"},"modified":"2020-07-03T12:21:53","modified_gmt":"2020-07-03T06:51:53","slug":"govt-approves-purchase-of-fighter-jets-missile-systems-weapons-worth-rs-38900-cr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/govt-approves-purchase-of-fighter-jets-missile-systems-weapons-worth-rs-38900-cr\/","title":{"rendered":"Govt approves purchase of fighter jets, missile systems, weapons worth Rs 38,900 cr"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the midst of India&#8217;s tense border standoff with China, the defence ministry on Thursday approved procurement of a number of frontline fighter jets, missile systems and other platforms at a cost of Rs 38,900 crore to bolster the combat capability of the armed forces, officials said. <\/p>\n<p>They said 21 MiG-29 fighter jets are being bought from Russia while 12 Su-30 MKI aircraft will be procured from Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd. The ministry has also approved a separate proposal to upgrade existing 59 MiG-29 aircraft. <\/p>\n<p>The decisions were taken at a meeting of the Defence Acquisition Council (DAC) chaired by Defence Minister Rajnath Singh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the midst of India&#8217;s tense border standoff with China, the defence ministry on Thursday approved procurement of a number of frontline fighter jets, missile systems and other platforms at a cost of Rs 38,900 crore to bolster the combat capability of the armed forces, officials said. They said 21 MiG-29 fighter jets are being bought from Russia while 12 Su-30 MKI aircraft will be procured from Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd. The ministry has also approved a separate proposal to upgrade existing 59 MiG-29 aircraft. The decisions were taken at a meeting of the Defence Acquisition Council (DAC) chaired by Defence [&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-361036","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\/361036","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=361036"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361036\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=361036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=361036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=361036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}