{"id":411552,"date":"2021-04-22T11:14:19","date_gmt":"2021-04-22T05:44:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=411552"},"modified":"2021-04-22T13:02:43","modified_gmt":"2021-04-22T07:32:43","slug":"iaf-chief-flags-off-4-rafale-jets-from-frances-merignac-bordeaux-airbase","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/iaf-chief-flags-off-4-rafale-jets-from-frances-merignac-bordeaux-airbase\/","title":{"rendered":"IAF chief flags off 4 Rafale jets from France\u2019s Merignac-Bordeaux airbase"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Indian Air Force chief Air Chief Marshal RKS Bhadauria on Wednesday flagged off four Rafale fighter jets from Merignac-Bordeaux airbase in France to India, officials familiar with the development said. <\/p>\n<p>This is the fifth ferry of Rafale jets from France to India and their arrival will take the total number of French-origin fighters in the IAF inventory to 18.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAir Chief Mshl RKS Bhadauria on an official tour to France lauds pilots &amp; sees off the next batch of Rafales on a nonstop flight to India with mid-air refuelling by French Air force &amp; UAE. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Indian Air Force chief Air Chief Marshal RKS Bhadauria on Wednesday flagged off four Rafale fighter jets from Merignac-Bordeaux airbase in France to India, officials familiar with the development said. This is the fifth ferry of Rafale jets from France to India and their arrival will take the total number of French-origin fighters in the IAF inventory to 18. \u201cAir Chief Mshl RKS Bhadauria on an official tour to France lauds pilots &amp; sees off the next batch of Rafales on a nonstop flight to India with mid-air refuelling by French Air force &amp; UAE.<\/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":[184,141,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-411552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-hindustantimes","category-hindustantimes","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411552","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=411552"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411552\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=411552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=411552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=411552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}