{"id":392166,"date":"2020-12-30T08:25:35","date_gmt":"2020-12-30T02:55:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=392166"},"modified":"2020-12-30T08:51:46","modified_gmt":"2020-12-30T03:21:46","slug":"us-approves-over-4-billion-sale-of-8-apache-helicopters-to-kuwait","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/us-approves-over-4-billion-sale-of-8-apache-helicopters-to-kuwait\/","title":{"rendered":"US approves over $4 billion sale of 8 Apache helicopters to Kuwait"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The US State Department signed off on arms sales to Kuwait worth over USD 4 billion that include eight Apache AH-64E helicopters, along with equipment upgrade of 16 older Apaches, the Defense Security Cooperation Agency (DSCA), announced on Tuesday. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The government of Kuwait has requested to buy eight AH-64E Apache Longbow Attack Helicopters and remanufacture 16 of their AH-64D Apache Longbow Attack Helicopters to the AH-64E configuration consisting of: eight AH-64E Apache Helicopters (new procurement); 16 AH-64E Apache Helicopters (remanufacture),&#8221; the DSCA press release said on Tuesday. &#8220;The total estimated cost is USD 4.0 billion.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Another DSCA release informed about the State Department&#8217;s approval of a proposed USD 200 million sale of spare parts for Kuwait&#8217;s upgraded Patriot missile defence system.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US State Department signed off on arms sales to Kuwait worth over USD 4 billion that include eight Apache AH-64E helicopters, along with equipment upgrade of 16 older Apaches, the Defense Security Cooperation Agency (DSCA), announced on Tuesday. &#8220;The government of Kuwait has requested to buy eight AH-64E Apache Longbow Attack Helicopters and remanufacture 16 of their AH-64D Apache Longbow Attack Helicopters to the AH-64E configuration consisting of: eight AH-64E Apache Helicopters (new procurement); 16 AH-64E Apache Helicopters (remanufacture),&#8221; the DSCA press release said on Tuesday. &#8220;The total estimated cost is USD 4.0 billion.&#8221; Another DSCA release informed about [&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-392166","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\/392166","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=392166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392166\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=392166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=392166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=392166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}