{"id":365153,"date":"2020-07-28T12:11:30","date_gmt":"2020-07-28T06:41:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=365153"},"modified":"2020-07-28T12:45:28","modified_gmt":"2020-07-28T07:15:28","slug":"first-batch-of-5-rafale-jets-takes-off-from-france-for-india-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/first-batch-of-5-rafale-jets-takes-off-from-france-for-india-2\/","title":{"rendered":"First batch of 5 Rafale jets takes off from France for India"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The first batch of five Rafale jets on Monday took off from France for India, officials said.<\/p>\n<p>The multi-role fighter aircraft are scheduled to arrive at Ambala air force station on Wednesday, nearly four years after India signed an inter-governmental agreement with France to procure 36 Rafale jets for the Indian Air Force under a Rs 59,000-crore deal.<\/p>\n<p>The fleet is expected to significantly boost the IAF&#8217;s combat capabilities at a time when India is locked in a tense border row with China in eastern Ladakh.<\/p>\n<p>Indian Ambassador to France Jawed Ashraf interacted with IAF pilots before they took off from France.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Bon Voyage: Indian Ambassador to #France interacts with the Indian pilots of the Rafale. Congratulates and wishes them a safe flight to India with a single hop,&#8221; the Indian Embassy in Paris tweeted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first batch of five Rafale jets on Monday took off from France for India, officials said. The multi-role fighter aircraft are scheduled to arrive at Ambala air force station on Wednesday, nearly four years after India signed an inter-governmental agreement with France to procure 36 Rafale jets for the Indian Air Force under a Rs 59,000-crore deal. The fleet is expected to significantly boost the IAF&#8217;s combat capabilities at a time when India is locked in a tense border row with China in eastern Ladakh. Indian Ambassador to France Jawed Ashraf interacted with IAF pilots before they took off [&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-365153","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\/365153","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=365153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365153\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=365153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=365153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=365153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}