{"id":363981,"date":"2020-07-21T12:52:00","date_gmt":"2020-07-21T07:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=363981"},"modified":"2020-07-21T12:52:00","modified_gmt":"2020-07-21T07:22:00","slug":"four-sub-killer-p-8i-craft-coming-to-india-next-year-then-talks-for-six-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/four-sub-killer-p-8i-craft-coming-to-india-next-year-then-talks-for-six-more\/","title":{"rendered":"Four sub-killer P-8I craft coming to India next year, then talks for six more"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>India\u2019s long-range anti-submarine, reconnaissance, surveillance and electronic jamming capabilities in the Indian Ocean Region are going to get a further boost with the induction of four more P-8I multi-mission aircraft from the US next year. India has the option of buying another six from Boeing to be negotiated later in 2021, people familiar with the developments in New Delhi and Seattle said.<\/p>\n<p>The Indian Navy variant of the P-8A Poseidon &#8211; P-8I where I stands for India &#8211; is essentially designed for maritime patrol. Integrated with the Harpoon Block II air launched missiles and lightweight torpedoes, the reconnaissance craft &#8211; it can carry 129 sonobuoys to locate subs &#8211; turns into a deadly submarine killer that can also launch anti-ship missiles.<\/p>\n<p>The proposed acquisitions come against the backdrop of China\u2019s efforts to militarise the South China Sea and expand its sea footprint.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India\u2019s long-range anti-submarine, reconnaissance, surveillance and electronic jamming capabilities in the Indian Ocean Region are going to get a further boost with the induction of four more P-8I multi-mission aircraft from the US next year. India has the option of buying another six from Boeing to be negotiated later in 2021, people familiar with the developments in New Delhi and Seattle said. The Indian Navy variant of the P-8A Poseidon &#8211; P-8I where I stands for India &#8211; is essentially designed for maritime patrol. Integrated with the Harpoon Block II air launched missiles and lightweight torpedoes, the reconnaissance craft &#8211; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[184,141,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-363981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-hindustantimes","category-hindustantimes","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363981","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\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=363981"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363981\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=363981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=363981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=363981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}