{"id":454128,"date":"2021-12-04T10:54:35","date_gmt":"2021-12-04T05:24:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=454128"},"modified":"2021-12-04T12:21:21","modified_gmt":"2021-12-04T06:51:21","slug":"uae-signs-deal-for-80-rafale-fighter-jets-say-officials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/uae-signs-deal-for-80-rafale-fighter-jets-say-officials\/","title":{"rendered":"UAE signs deal for 80 Rafale fighter jets, say officials"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The United Arab Emirates has signed a deal for 80 French-made Rafale fighter jets, the biggest international order ever made for the warplanes, officials said on Friday during a visit by French President Emmanuel Macron. <\/p>\n<p>The UAE, one of the French defence industry&#8217;s biggest customers, also agreed to buy 12 Caracal military transport helicopters, the French presidency said in a statement. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is an outcome of the strategic partnership between the two countries, consolidating their capacity to act together for their autonomy and security,&#8221; the statement said. <\/p>\n<p>The Rafale order is the biggest made internationally for the aircraft since it entered into service in 2004.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The United Arab Emirates has signed a deal for 80 French-made Rafale fighter jets, the biggest international order ever made for the warplanes, officials said on Friday during a visit by French President Emmanuel Macron. The UAE, one of the French defence industry&#8217;s biggest customers, also agreed to buy 12 Caracal military transport helicopters, the French presidency said in a statement. &#8220;This is an outcome of the strategic partnership between the two countries, consolidating their capacity to act together for their autonomy and security,&#8221; the statement said. The Rafale order is the biggest made internationally for the aircraft since it [&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":[176,146,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-454128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-deccan-herald-newspapers","category-deccan-herald-newspapers","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454128","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=454128"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454128\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=454128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=454128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=454128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}