{"id":575608,"date":"2023-05-09T11:10:42","date_gmt":"2023-05-09T05:40:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=575608"},"modified":"2023-05-09T12:11:45","modified_gmt":"2023-05-09T06:41:45","slug":"iaf-working-on-phasing-out-remaining-three-squadrons-of-mig-21-jets-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/iaf-working-on-phasing-out-remaining-three-squadrons-of-mig-21-jets-2\/","title":{"rendered":"IAF working on phasing out remaining three squadrons of MiG-21 jets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The crash of a MiG-21 jet in Rajasthan\u2019s Hanumangarh on Monday has once again put the spotlight on the Indian Air Force\u2019s aging fleet of Soviet-origin aircraft which have been involved in around 400 accidents since their first induction in the early 1960s.<\/p>\n<p>Three people were killed after the MiG-21 fighter aircraft crashed into a house in Hanumangarh in Rajasthan shortly after it took off for a routine training sortie from the Air Force Station at Suratgarh.<\/p>\n<p>The MiG-21s used to be the mainstay of the IAF for a long period of time. After its induction in the early 1960s, the Indian Air Force procured over 870 MiG-21 fighters to boost its overall combat prowess.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The crash of a MiG-21 jet in Rajasthan\u2019s Hanumangarh on Monday has once again put the spotlight on the Indian Air Force\u2019s aging fleet of Soviet-origin aircraft which have been involved in around 400 accidents since their first induction in the early 1960s. Three people were killed after the MiG-21 fighter aircraft crashed into a house in Hanumangarh in Rajasthan shortly after it took off for a routine training sortie from the Air Force Station at Suratgarh. The MiG-21s used to be the mainstay of the IAF for a long period of time. After its induction in the early 1960s, [&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":[224,130,150],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-575608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-the-tribune","category-newspapers","category-the-tribune"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575608","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=575608"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575608\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=575608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=575608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=575608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}