{"id":444486,"date":"2021-10-23T09:14:38","date_gmt":"2021-10-23T03:44:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=444486"},"modified":"2021-10-23T09:52:50","modified_gmt":"2021-10-23T04:22:50","slug":"defence-ministry-pact-with-us-to-procure-mk-54-torpedo-expendables-worth-rs-423-cr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/defence-ministry-pact-with-us-to-procure-mk-54-torpedo-expendables-worth-rs-423-cr\/","title":{"rendered":"Defence ministry pact with US to procure MK 54 torpedo, expendables worth Rs 423 cr"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The defence ministry has signed a contract with the US government to procure MK 54 torpedo and expendables such as chaff and flares for the Indian Navy\u2019s anti-submarine warfare aircraft P-8I at a cost of Rs 423 crore, its spokesperson said on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The Indian Navy has a total of 11 P-8I aircraft, which are manufactured by US aerospace company Boeing, in its fleet.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to anti-submarine warfare capabilities, the P-8I aircraft is known for its advance maritime reconnaissance capabilities. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Ministry of Defence signed a contract with the US government under #ForeignMilitarySale (FMS) for procurement of MK 54 Torpedo and Expendable (Chaff and Flares) for the Indian Navy at a cost of Rs 423 crore,\u201d defence ministry\u2019s spokesperson said on Twitter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The defence ministry has signed a contract with the US government to procure MK 54 torpedo and expendables such as chaff and flares for the Indian Navy\u2019s anti-submarine warfare aircraft P-8I at a cost of Rs 423 crore, its spokesperson said on Friday. The Indian Navy has a total of 11 P-8I aircraft, which are manufactured by US aerospace company Boeing, in its fleet. In addition to anti-submarine warfare capabilities, the P-8I aircraft is known for its advance maritime reconnaissance capabilities. \u201cThe Ministry of Defence signed a contract with the US government under #ForeignMilitarySale (FMS) for procurement of MK 54 [&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":[130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-444486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444486","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=444486"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444486\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=444486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=444486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=444486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}