{"id":383537,"date":"2020-11-11T08:34:28","date_gmt":"2020-11-11T03:04:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=383537"},"modified":"2020-11-11T08:59:54","modified_gmt":"2020-11-11T03:29:54","slug":"us-approves-23-37-billion-defence-sale-to-uae-includes-f-35-aircraft-uav","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/us-approves-23-37-billion-defence-sale-to-uae-includes-f-35-aircraft-uav\/","title":{"rendered":"US approves $23.37 billion defence sale to UAE, includes F-35 aircraft, UAV"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>United States has approved the sale of 23.37 billion dollar worth advanced defence capabilities to the United Arab Emirates, including F-35 Lightning II aircrafts, MQ-9B Unmanned Aerial Systems and a package of air-to-air and air-to-ground munitions. <\/p>\n<p>The Donald Trump administration on Tuesday notified Congress of the sale. <\/p>\n<p>US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo in a statement said: &#8220;Today, I directed the Department to formally notify Congress of our intent to authorize the UAE&#8217;s proposed purchase of several advanced capabilities that are worth USD 23.37 billion, for up to 50 F-35 Lightning II aircraft, valued at USD 10.4 billion; up to 18 MQ-9B Unmanned Aerial Systems, valued at USD 2.97 billion; and a package of air-to-air and air-to-ground munitions, valued at USD 10 billion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>United States has approved the sale of 23.37 billion dollar worth advanced defence capabilities to the United Arab Emirates, including F-35 Lightning II aircrafts, MQ-9B Unmanned Aerial Systems and a package of air-to-air and air-to-ground munitions. The Donald Trump administration on Tuesday notified Congress of the sale. US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo in a statement said: &#8220;Today, I directed the Department to formally notify Congress of our intent to authorize the UAE&#8217;s proposed purchase of several advanced capabilities that are worth USD 23.37 billion, for up to 50 F-35 Lightning II aircraft, valued at USD 10.4 billion; up to [&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":[135,167,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-383537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-civil-aviation-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383537","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=383537"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383537\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=383537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=383537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=383537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}