{"id":411488,"date":"2021-04-22T10:11:07","date_gmt":"2021-04-22T04:41:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=411488"},"modified":"2021-04-22T11:21:30","modified_gmt":"2021-04-22T05:51:30","slug":"fifth-batch-of-rafale-fighter-aircraft-arrive-in-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/fifth-batch-of-rafale-fighter-aircraft-arrive-in-india\/","title":{"rendered":"Fifth batch of Rafale fighter aircraft arrive in India"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The fifth batch of Rafale fighter aircrafts arrived in India on Wednesday flying a distance of 8,000 km from Merignac Air Base in France.<\/p>\n<p>The Indian Air force thanked the French and UAE air forces for their refuelling support to complete the journey. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;After a direct ferry from MerignacAirBase, France, the fifth batch of Rafales arrived in India on April 21. The fighters flew a distance of almost 8,000 km with air-to-air refuelling support by Armee_de_lair and UAE AF. IAF thanks both the Air Forces for their co-operation,&#8221; tweeted the Indian Air Force. <\/p>\n<p>The aircraft had started joining the IAF fleet in the July-August timeframe last year and were quickly operationalised by the Air Force.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The fifth batch of Rafale fighter aircrafts arrived in India on Wednesday flying a distance of 8,000 km from Merignac Air Base in France. The Indian Air force thanked the French and UAE air forces for their refuelling support to complete the journey. &#8220;After a direct ferry from MerignacAirBase, France, the fifth batch of Rafales arrived in India on April 21. The fighters flew a distance of almost 8,000 km with air-to-air refuelling support by Armee_de_lair and UAE AF. IAF thanks both the Air Forces for their co-operation,&#8221; tweeted the Indian Air Force. The aircraft had started joining the IAF [&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":[188,139,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-411488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-live-mint","category-live-mint","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411488","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=411488"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411488\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=411488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=411488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=411488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}