{"id":396372,"date":"2021-01-20T12:36:16","date_gmt":"2021-01-20T07:06:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=396372"},"modified":"2021-01-20T12:36:16","modified_gmt":"2021-01-20T07:06:16","slug":"iaf-to-deploy-rafale-sukhoi-mirage-2000-jets-in-exercise-with-french-air-force","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/iaf-to-deploy-rafale-sukhoi-mirage-2000-jets-in-exercise-with-french-air-force\/","title":{"rendered":"IAF to deploy Rafale, Sukhoi, Mirage 2000 jets in exercise with French air force"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: The Indian Air Force will deploy its Rafale, Sukhoi and Mirage 2000 combat jets among other key assets in a five-day mega air exercise with the French air and space force that begins near Jodhpur on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The Indian Air Force (IAF) said its deployment at the &#8216;Ex-Desert Knight 21&#8217; will also include IL-78 flight refueling aircraft as well as airborne warning and control system (AWACS).<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The French side will participate with Rafale, Airbus A-330 Multi-Role Tanker Transport (MRTT), A-400M Tactical Transport aircraft,&#8221; it said, adding around 175 French personnel will be part of the exercise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: The Indian Air Force will deploy its Rafale, Sukhoi and Mirage 2000 combat jets among other key assets in a five-day mega air exercise with the French air and space force that begins near Jodhpur on Wednesday. The Indian Air Force (IAF) said its deployment at the &#8216;Ex-Desert Knight 21&#8217; will also include IL-78 flight refueling aircraft as well as airborne warning and control system (AWACS). &#8220;The French side will participate with Rafale, Airbus A-330 Multi-Role Tanker Transport (MRTT), A-400M Tactical Transport aircraft,&#8221; it said, adding around 175 French personnel will be part of the exercise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[208,130,143],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-396372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-the-new-indian-express","category-newspapers","category-the-new-indian-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396372","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\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=396372"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396372\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=396372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=396372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=396372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}