{"id":646153,"date":"2025-09-13T09:15:25","date_gmt":"2025-09-13T03:45:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=646153"},"modified":"2025-09-13T12:12:18","modified_gmt":"2025-09-13T06:42:18","slug":"iaf-pushes-for-114-more-rafale-jets-in-biggest-ever-defence-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/iaf-pushes-for-114-more-rafale-jets-in-biggest-ever-defence-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"IAF pushes for 114 more Rafale jets in biggest-ever defence deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Indian Air Force has moved a proposal to the Ministry of Defence to acquire 114 more Rafale fighter jets as part its plan to expand its fleet. <\/p>\n<p>The IAF wants the jets, capable of multi-role operations and has asked the MoD to begin the acquisition process, sources told The Tribune. Instead of the multi-role fighter aircraft (MRFA) tender, the MoD is likely to directly opt for the French Rafale.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Indian Air Force has moved a proposal to the Ministry of Defence to acquire 114 more Rafale fighter jets as part its plan to expand its fleet. The IAF wants the jets, capable of multi-role operations and has asked the MoD to begin the acquisition process, sources told The Tribune. Instead of the multi-role fighter aircraft (MRFA) tender, the MoD is likely to directly opt for the French Rafale.<\/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-646153","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\/646153","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=646153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646153\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=646153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=646153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=646153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}