{"id":426865,"date":"2021-07-22T08:30:59","date_gmt":"2021-07-22T03:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=426865"},"modified":"2021-07-22T10:23:50","modified_gmt":"2021-07-22T04:53:50","slug":"three-more-rafale-jets-arrive-in-india-in-further-boost-to-air-force","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/three-more-rafale-jets-arrive-in-india-in-further-boost-to-air-force\/","title":{"rendered":"Three more Rafale jets arrive in India in further boost to air force"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A seventh batch of three more Rafale fighter jets arrived in India after flying non-stop for a distance of almost 8,000 km from France, in a further boost to the strike capability of the Indian Air Force (IAF). <\/p>\n<p>The new batch of the aircraft will be part of the IAF&#8217;s second squadron of the Rafale jets. <\/p>\n<p>The aircraft were provided mid-air refuelling by the air force of the United Arab Emirates (UAE). <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThree Rafale aircraft arrived in India a short while ago, after a direct ferry from #IstresAirBase, France. IAF deeply appreciates the support by UAE Air Force for in-flight refuelling during the non-stop ferry,\u201d the IAF said in a tweet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A seventh batch of three more Rafale fighter jets arrived in India after flying non-stop for a distance of almost 8,000 km from France, in a further boost to the strike capability of the Indian Air Force (IAF). The new batch of the aircraft will be part of the IAF&#8217;s second squadron of the Rafale jets. The aircraft were provided mid-air refuelling by the air force of the United Arab Emirates (UAE). \u201cThree Rafale aircraft arrived in India a short while ago, after a direct ferry from #IstresAirBase, France. IAF deeply appreciates the support by UAE Air Force for in-flight [&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-426865","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\/426865","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=426865"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426865\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=426865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=426865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=426865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}