{"id":482848,"date":"2022-04-07T08:48:06","date_gmt":"2022-04-07T03:18:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=482848"},"modified":"2022-04-07T09:16:21","modified_gmt":"2022-04-07T03:46:21","slug":"hal-israel-aerospace-tie-up-to-turn-civil-aircraft-into-mid-air-refuellers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/hal-israel-aerospace-tie-up-to-turn-civil-aircraft-into-mid-air-refuellers\/","title":{"rendered":"HAL, Israel Aerospace tie up to turn civil aircraft into mid-air refuellers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hindustan Aeronautics (HAL) announced on Wednesday the signing of a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) to convert civil passenger aircraft to \u201cmulti mission tanker transport\u201d (MMTT) aircraft in India.<\/p>\n<p>For the past decade-and-a-half, the Indian Air Force (IAF) has been trying to buy six MMTT aircraft to supplement its eight obsolescent Russian Illyushin-78 refuellers. So dire is the IAF\u2019s shortfall of refuellers that, to fly in its new Rafale fighters from France, it had to ask Paris for Airbus refullers to top up the Rafales\u2019 fuel tanks over the Mediterranean Sea.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hindustan Aeronautics (HAL) announced on Wednesday the signing of a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) to convert civil passenger aircraft to \u201cmulti mission tanker transport\u201d (MMTT) aircraft in India. For the past decade-and-a-half, the Indian Air Force (IAF) has been trying to buy six MMTT aircraft to supplement its eight obsolescent Russian Illyushin-78 refuellers. So dire is the IAF\u2019s shortfall of refuellers that, to fly in its new Rafale fighters from France, it had to ask Paris for Airbus refullers to top up the Rafales\u2019 fuel tanks over the Mediterranean Sea.<\/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-482848","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\/482848","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=482848"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482848\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=482848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=482848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=482848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}