{"id":365173,"date":"2020-07-28T12:48:18","date_gmt":"2020-07-28T07:18:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=365173"},"modified":"2020-07-28T12:48:18","modified_gmt":"2020-07-28T07:18:18","slug":"5-rafales-head-to-india-in-boost-to-its-air-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/5-rafales-head-to-india-in-boost-to-its-air-power\/","title":{"rendered":"5 Rafales head to India in boost to its air power"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Five Rafale fighter jets of the 36 ordered by the Indian Air Force (IAF) took off from M\u00e9rignac in France and will reach their home base in Ambala on July 29 after a stopover at the Al Dhafra airbase near Abu Dhabi \u2014 a move that will boost rapid deployment of the jets to upgrade India\u2019s ageing air power amid tensions with neighbouring China and Pakistan.<\/p>\n<p>The two-leg flight will involve the Rafales covering a distance of nearly 7,000km. The five fighters landed safely at Al Dhafra after a seven-hour flight from France on Monday evening.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cReal beauty and beast!\u201d Indian ambassador to France Jawed Ashraf said while the planes were being flagged off in Bordeaux. \u201cFirst five Rafale to India \u2013 swift, nimble, versatile, advanced and lethal,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Five Rafale fighter jets of the 36 ordered by the Indian Air Force (IAF) took off from M\u00e9rignac in France and will reach their home base in Ambala on July 29 after a stopover at the Al Dhafra airbase near Abu Dhabi \u2014 a move that will boost rapid deployment of the jets to upgrade India\u2019s ageing air power amid tensions with neighbouring China and Pakistan. The two-leg flight will involve the Rafales covering a distance of nearly 7,000km. The five fighters landed safely at Al Dhafra after a seven-hour flight from France on Monday evening. \u201cReal beauty and beast!\u201d [&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":[141,130,236],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-365173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hindustantimes","category-newspapers","category-power-hindustantimes"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365173","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=365173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365173\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=365173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=365173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=365173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}