{"id":397686,"date":"2021-01-29T08:30:15","date_gmt":"2021-01-29T03:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=397686"},"modified":"2021-01-29T08:49:37","modified_gmt":"2021-01-29T03:19:37","slug":"boeing-gets-us-govt-approval-to-offer-f-15ex-fighter-jet-to-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/boeing-gets-us-govt-approval-to-offer-f-15ex-fighter-jet-to-india\/","title":{"rendered":"Boeing gets US govt approval to offer F-15EX fighter jet to India"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Boeing Company revealed on Thursday that Washington had granted it a licence to market its newest heavy fighter, the F-15EX, in India. <\/p>\n<p>Seven of the world\u2019s premier fighter manufacturers have already indicated interest in competing for the Indian Air Force\u2019s (IAF\u2019s) ongoing acquisition of 114 medium fighters &#8212; a contract worth an estimated $20-30 billion. <\/p>\n<p>The fighter manufacturers that have responded to the IAF\u2019s \u2018request for information (RFI)\u2019 floated in 2019 include Boeing with its F\/A-18E\/F Super Hornet; Lockheed Martin with its single-engine F-21; Saab with its single-engine Gripen E\/F, Dassault with its twin-engine Rafale, Eurofighter GmbH with its twin-engine Typhoon, and Russia with two twin-engine fighters &#8212; RAC MiG-35 and Sukhoi Su-35.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Boeing Company revealed on Thursday that Washington had granted it a licence to market its newest heavy fighter, the F-15EX, in India. Seven of the world\u2019s premier fighter manufacturers have already indicated interest in competing for the Indian Air Force\u2019s (IAF\u2019s) ongoing acquisition of 114 medium fighters &#8212; a contract worth an estimated $20-30 billion. The fighter manufacturers that have responded to the IAF\u2019s \u2018request for information (RFI)\u2019 floated in 2019 include Boeing with its F\/A-18E\/F Super Hornet; Lockheed Martin with its single-engine F-21; Saab with its single-engine Gripen E\/F, Dassault with its twin-engine Rafale, Eurofighter GmbH with its [&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-397686","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\/397686","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=397686"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397686\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=397686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=397686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=397686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}