{"id":585762,"date":"2023-06-21T09:28:30","date_gmt":"2023-06-21T03:58:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=585762"},"modified":"2023-06-21T09:57:38","modified_gmt":"2023-06-21T04:27:38","slug":"india-to-buy-31-predator-drones-from-us-for-3-5-bn-all-you-need-to-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/india-to-buy-31-predator-drones-from-us-for-3-5-bn-all-you-need-to-know\/","title":{"rendered":"India to buy 31 Predator drones from US for $3.5 bn; all you need to know"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, India&#8217;s Defence Acquisition Council (DAC) approved the purchase of US-Made Predator drones, arguably the best in the world. The deal will cost India around $3.5 billion for 31 high-altitude, long-endurance Predator-B drones. India already operates two Sea Guardian drones, an unarmed version of the deadly Predator series. <\/p>\n<p>What are Predator Drones? <\/p>\n<p>Developed by a San Diego-based defence contractor, General Atomics, Predators drones are considered the best in the business. Primarily developed to conduct surveillance-related operations, one of these drones famously identified Osama bin Laden in Afghanistan in 2000.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, India&#8217;s Defence Acquisition Council (DAC) approved the purchase of US-Made Predator drones, arguably the best in the world. The deal will cost India around $3.5 billion for 31 high-altitude, long-endurance Predator-B drones. India already operates two Sea Guardian drones, an unarmed version of the deadly Predator series. What are Predator Drones? Developed by a San Diego-based defence contractor, General Atomics, Predators drones are considered the best in the business. Primarily developed to conduct surveillance-related operations, one of these drones famously identified Osama bin Laden in Afghanistan in 2000.<\/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-585762","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\/585762","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=585762"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585762\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=585762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=585762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=585762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}