{"id":390696,"date":"2020-12-22T08:36:16","date_gmt":"2020-12-22T03:06:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=390696"},"modified":"2020-12-22T09:13:24","modified_gmt":"2020-12-22T03:43:24","slug":"boeing-hard-sells-super-hornet-tests-it-for-indian-navy-carriers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/boeing-hard-sells-super-hornet-tests-it-for-indian-navy-carriers\/","title":{"rendered":"Boeing hard-sells Super Hornet, tests it for Indian Navy carriers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Boeing Company, which has sold the Indian military more aircraft types this decade than any other vendor, has made a strong play in another lucrative tender: the Indian Navy\u2019s acquisition of 57 multi-role carrier-based fighters (MRCBFs), worth an estimated $7 billion. <\/p>\n<p>Boeing announced on Monday, what has been rumoured for weeks: \u201cBoeing and the US Navy recently concluded the \u2018ski jump\u2019 trials, demonstrating the\u2026 (F\/A-18 Super Hornet\u2019s) suitability for Indian Navy\u2019s aircraft carriers.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>The F\/A-18E\/F Super Hornet, which Boeing is offering in the MRCBF tender, is primarily designed to take off from US aircraft carriers with the help of a catapult that accelerates the aircraft to take-off speed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Boeing Company, which has sold the Indian military more aircraft types this decade than any other vendor, has made a strong play in another lucrative tender: the Indian Navy\u2019s acquisition of 57 multi-role carrier-based fighters (MRCBFs), worth an estimated $7 billion. Boeing announced on Monday, what has been rumoured for weeks: \u201cBoeing and the US Navy recently concluded the \u2018ski jump\u2019 trials, demonstrating the\u2026 (F\/A-18 Super Hornet\u2019s) suitability for Indian Navy\u2019s aircraft carriers.\u201d The F\/A-18E\/F Super Hornet, which Boeing is offering in the MRCBF tender, is primarily designed to take off from US aircraft carriers with the help of [&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-390696","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\/390696","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=390696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390696\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=390696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=390696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=390696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}