{"id":413822,"date":"2021-05-06T10:44:35","date_gmt":"2021-05-06T05:14:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=413822"},"modified":"2021-05-06T11:56:00","modified_gmt":"2021-05-06T06:26:00","slug":"three-more-rafale-fighter-jets-take-off-from-france-for-iaf-airbase","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/three-more-rafale-fighter-jets-take-off-from-france-for-iaf-airbase\/","title":{"rendered":"Three more Rafale fighter jets take off from France for IAF airbase"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Three more Rafale omnirole fighters are on their way to India from Merignac-Bordeaux airbase in France and are scheduled to land in Jamnagar airbase later on Wednesday evening. The three fighters will then fly to Ambala before they are repurposed to Hashimara airbase in north Bengal later. <\/p>\n<p>The aircraft will be refueled en-route by India&#8217;s strategic ally United Arab Emirates using Airbus 330 multi-role transport tankers over middleeast skies. <\/p>\n<p>With three more fighters joining the Indian Air Force (IAF), the total numbers of Rafale fighter jets in Ambala will reach 20 with another four expected to join within a fortnight from France.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three more Rafale omnirole fighters are on their way to India from Merignac-Bordeaux airbase in France and are scheduled to land in Jamnagar airbase later on Wednesday evening. The three fighters will then fly to Ambala before they are repurposed to Hashimara airbase in north Bengal later. The aircraft will be refueled en-route by India&#8217;s strategic ally United Arab Emirates using Airbus 330 multi-role transport tankers over middleeast skies. With three more fighters joining the Indian Air Force (IAF), the total numbers of Rafale fighter jets in Ambala will reach 20 with another four expected to join within a fortnight [&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-413822","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\/413822","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=413822"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413822\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=413822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=413822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=413822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}