{"id":450586,"date":"2021-11-18T12:29:52","date_gmt":"2021-11-18T06:59:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=450586"},"modified":"2021-11-18T12:29:52","modified_gmt":"2021-11-18T06:59:52","slug":"taiwan-deploys-advanced-f-16v-fighter-jets-amid-china-threat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/taiwan-deploys-advanced-f-16v-fighter-jets-amid-china-threat\/","title":{"rendered":"Taiwan deploys advanced F-16V fighter jets amid China threat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CHIAYI (Taiwan): Taiwan has deployed the most advanced version of the F-16 fighter jet in its air force, as the self-ruled island steps up its defense capabilities in the face of continuing threats from China, which claims it as part of its territory.<\/p>\n<p>Taiwan&#8217;s President Tsai Ing-wen commissioned into service 64 upgraded F-16V fighter jets at an air force base in Chiayi on Thursday. The aircraft represent part of Taiwan&#8217;s total 141 F-16 A\/B jets, an older model from the 1990s that will be completely retrofitted by the end of 2023.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CHIAYI (Taiwan): Taiwan has deployed the most advanced version of the F-16 fighter jet in its air force, as the self-ruled island steps up its defense capabilities in the face of continuing threats from China, which claims it as part of its territory. Taiwan&#8217;s President Tsai Ing-wen commissioned into service 64 upgraded F-16V fighter jets at an air force base in Chiayi on Thursday. The aircraft represent part of Taiwan&#8217;s total 141 F-16 A\/B jets, an older model from the 1990s that will be completely retrofitted by the end of 2023.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[208,130,143],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-450586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-the-new-indian-express","category-newspapers","category-the-new-indian-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450586","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\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=450586"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450586\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=450586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=450586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=450586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}