{"id":586374,"date":"2023-06-23T09:56:26","date_gmt":"2023-06-23T04:26:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=586374"},"modified":"2023-06-23T10:57:37","modified_gmt":"2023-06-23T05:27:37","slug":"armed-drones-jet-engines-to-take-defence-ties-with-us-to-next-level","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/armed-drones-jet-engines-to-take-defence-ties-with-us-to-next-level\/","title":{"rendered":"Armed drones, jet engines to take defence ties with US to next level"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The already expansive defence relationship between India and the US is set to register a quantum leap during the Modi-Biden summit with the twin pacts on the joint manufacture of GE-F414 fighter jet engines and the sale of armed MQ-9B Predator drones, both a first for a non-military ally of the US. <\/p>\n<p>India&#8217;s proposed $3.5 billion acquisition of the 31 drones \u2014 15 Sea Guardians for Navy and eight Sky Guardians each for Army and IAF \u2014 will hugely boost its capabilities for long-range ISR (intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance and strike missions both in the Indian Ocean Region (IOR) as well as its land borders with China and Pakistan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The already expansive defence relationship between India and the US is set to register a quantum leap during the Modi-Biden summit with the twin pacts on the joint manufacture of GE-F414 fighter jet engines and the sale of armed MQ-9B Predator drones, both a first for a non-military ally of the US. India&#8217;s proposed $3.5 billion acquisition of the 31 drones \u2014 15 Sea Guardians for Navy and eight Sky Guardians each for Army and IAF \u2014 will hugely boost its capabilities for long-range ISR (intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance and strike missions both in the Indian Ocean Region (IOR) as [&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":[220,130,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-586374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586374","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=586374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586374\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=586374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=586374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=586374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}