{"id":431868,"date":"2021-08-25T08:31:31","date_gmt":"2021-08-25T03:01:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=431868"},"modified":"2021-08-25T08:39:05","modified_gmt":"2021-08-25T03:09:05","slug":"lockheed-martin-gets-329-million-contract-to-maintain-c-130j-fleet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/lockheed-martin-gets-329-million-contract-to-maintain-c-130j-fleet\/","title":{"rendered":"Lockheed Martin gets $329-million contract to maintain C-130J fleet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Indian Air Force (IAF) has awarded US aerospace giant Lockheed Martin a $328.8 million, five-year contract to provide comprehensive maintenance support for India\u2019s fleet of 12 C-130J Super Hercules tactical airlifter aircraft. <\/p>\n<p>Lockheed Martin manufactures the highly regarded Super Hercules transport aircraft, which is flown by 26 operators in 22 nations. <\/p>\n<p>The arrangement, announced on Tuesday, is called a \u201cFollow On Support-II\u201d (FOS-II) contract. The IAF will pay the US aerospace and defence giant \u2014 the world\u2019s biggest arms supplier \u2014 just under $5.5 million per C-130J, per year, in order to obtain a specified level of operational readiness across the fleet. This is an extension of the initial FOS-I contract.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Indian Air Force (IAF) has awarded US aerospace giant Lockheed Martin a $328.8 million, five-year contract to provide comprehensive maintenance support for India\u2019s fleet of 12 C-130J Super Hercules tactical airlifter aircraft. Lockheed Martin manufactures the highly regarded Super Hercules transport aircraft, which is flown by 26 operators in 22 nations. The arrangement, announced on Tuesday, is called a \u201cFollow On Support-II\u201d (FOS-II) contract. The IAF will pay the US aerospace and defence giant \u2014 the world\u2019s biggest arms supplier \u2014 just under $5.5 million per C-130J, per year, in order to obtain a specified level of operational readiness [&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-431868","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\/431868","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=431868"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431868\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=431868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=431868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=431868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}