{"id":550055,"date":"2023-01-25T11:19:07","date_gmt":"2023-01-25T05:49:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=550055"},"modified":"2023-01-25T13:40:47","modified_gmt":"2023-01-25T08:10:47","slug":"army-begins-process-to-procure-new-age-drones-jet-pack-suit-under-emergency-procurement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/army-begins-process-to-procure-new-age-drones-jet-pack-suit-under-emergency-procurement\/","title":{"rendered":"Army begins process to procure new-age drones, &#8216;jet pack suit&#8217; under emergency procurement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Indian Army has kick started the process to procure 130 new-age drone systems to bolster its overall surveillance and combat capabilities along sensitive border areas, officials said on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The tethered drones are being purchased under emergency procurement through a fast-track procedure under the &#8216;buy-Indian&#8217; category, they said.<\/p>\n<p>The tethered drone system consists of drones which are connected to a ground-based tether station and can provide surveillance of beyond the line of sight targets for prolonged periods.<\/p>\n<p>The drones can also be launched in untethered mode for a certain duration to obtain additional information or confirm intelligence inputs, the officials said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Indian Army has kick started the process to procure 130 new-age drone systems to bolster its overall surveillance and combat capabilities along sensitive border areas, officials said on Tuesday. The tethered drones are being purchased under emergency procurement through a fast-track procedure under the &#8216;buy-Indian&#8217; category, they said. The tethered drone system consists of drones which are connected to a ground-based tether station and can provide surveillance of beyond the line of sight targets for prolonged periods. The drones can also be launched in untethered mode for a certain duration to obtain additional information or confirm intelligence inputs, the [&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-550055","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\/550055","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=550055"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550055\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=550055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=550055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=550055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}