{"id":588412,"date":"2023-07-01T10:55:24","date_gmt":"2023-07-01T05:25:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=588412"},"modified":"2023-07-01T12:49:11","modified_gmt":"2023-07-01T07:19:11","slug":"india-may-clinch-mega-us-predator-drone-deal-at-27-less-average-cost-than-other-countries-talks-to-begin-soon-sources","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/india-may-clinch-mega-us-predator-drone-deal-at-27-less-average-cost-than-other-countries-talks-to-begin-soon-sources\/","title":{"rendered":"India may clinch mega US Predator drone deal at 27% less average cost than other countries, talks to begin soon: Sources"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: India could strike a decent bargain in its multi-billion Predator drone deal with US, with the average estimated cost around 27% lower than what was incurred by other countries, PTI reported quoting official sources. <\/p>\n<p>The long-pending drone deal was announced after Prime Minister Narendra Modi&#8217;s talks with US President Joe Biden during the former&#8217;s recent visit to the US. The contours of the mega deal were finalised a few weeks ago by Rajnath Singh and his US counterpart Lloyd Austin. <\/p>\n<p>Under the proposed $3.5 billion deal, India will acquire 31 MQ\u00ad9B high\u00adaltitude, long\u00adendurance drones \u2014 15 SeaGuardians for Navy and eight SkyGuardians each for Army and IAF \u2014 from US.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: India could strike a decent bargain in its multi-billion Predator drone deal with US, with the average estimated cost around 27% lower than what was incurred by other countries, PTI reported quoting official sources. The long-pending drone deal was announced after Prime Minister Narendra Modi&#8217;s talks with US President Joe Biden during the former&#8217;s recent visit to the US. The contours of the mega deal were finalised a few weeks ago by Rajnath Singh and his US counterpart Lloyd Austin. Under the proposed $3.5 billion deal, India will acquire 31 MQ\u00ad9B high\u00adaltitude, long\u00adendurance drones \u2014 15 SeaGuardians for [&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-588412","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\/588412","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=588412"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588412\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=588412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=588412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=588412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}