{"id":507384,"date":"2022-07-21T09:59:59","date_gmt":"2022-07-21T04:29:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=507384"},"modified":"2022-07-21T11:20:51","modified_gmt":"2022-07-21T05:50:51","slug":"boeings-f-a-18-super-hornet-completes-operational-demonstration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/boeings-f-a-18-super-hornet-completes-operational-demonstration\/","title":{"rendered":"Boeing&#8217;s F\/A-18 Super Hornet completes operational demonstration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After successfully demonstrating its ability to land on, and take off from, the ski-jump that equips India\u2019s two aircraft carriers, The Boeing Company (Boeing) is confident that the aircraft it is offering \u2014 the F\/A-18 Super Hornet Block III \u2014 is in pole position to win the Indian Navy\u2019s tender for initially 26, increasing to 57, multi-role carrier-based fighters (MRCBF).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEven though the Super Hornet was initially designed to operate from a catapult-launch environment, the jet is so powerful that it is able to easily achieve ski-jump launches again under its own power with heavy payloads,\u201d said Alain Garcia, Boeing\u2019s defence head in India.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After successfully demonstrating its ability to land on, and take off from, the ski-jump that equips India\u2019s two aircraft carriers, The Boeing Company (Boeing) is confident that the aircraft it is offering \u2014 the F\/A-18 Super Hornet Block III \u2014 is in pole position to win the Indian Navy\u2019s tender for initially 26, increasing to 57, multi-role carrier-based fighters (MRCBF). \u201cEven though the Super Hornet was initially designed to operate from a catapult-launch environment, the jet is so powerful that it is able to easily achieve ski-jump launches again under its own power with heavy payloads,\u201d said Alain Garcia, Boeing\u2019s [&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-507384","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\/507384","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=507384"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/507384\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=507384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=507384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=507384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}