{"id":413820,"date":"2021-05-06T10:45:07","date_gmt":"2021-05-06T05:15:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=413820"},"modified":"2021-05-06T11:56:06","modified_gmt":"2021-05-06T06:26:06","slug":"3-more-rafale-jets-leave-for-india-from-france","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/3-more-rafale-jets-leave-for-india-from-france\/","title":{"rendered":"3 more Rafale jets leave for India from France"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Three Rafale jets took off from the Bordeaux\u2013M\u00e9rignac airbase in France on Wednesday and were scheduled to reach India by night, taking the total number of Rafales in the Indian Air Force inventory to 21 and setting the stage for raising the second squadron of the fighters in the country\u2019s eastern sector, officials familiar with the development said. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cNext batch of three #Rafales leave from France to India today; wished the pilots smooth flight and safe landing,\u201d the Indian embassy in France said on Twitter. This is the sixth ferry of Rafale jets from France to India.<\/p>\n<p>IAF chief Air Chief Marshal RKS Bhadauria last month flagged off four Rafale jets from France to India. Bhadauria was in France on a five-day visit in April.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three Rafale jets took off from the Bordeaux\u2013M\u00e9rignac airbase in France on Wednesday and were scheduled to reach India by night, taking the total number of Rafales in the Indian Air Force inventory to 21 and setting the stage for raising the second squadron of the fighters in the country\u2019s eastern sector, officials familiar with the development said. \u201cNext batch of three #Rafales leave from France to India today; wished the pilots smooth flight and safe landing,\u201d the Indian embassy in France said on Twitter. This is the sixth ferry of Rafale jets from France to India. IAF chief Air [&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":[184,141,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-413820","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\/413820","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=413820"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413820\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=413820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=413820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=413820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}