{"id":203431,"date":"2022-09-03T18:29:17","date_gmt":"2022-09-03T12:59:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=203431"},"modified":"2022-09-03T18:29:17","modified_gmt":"2022-09-03T12:59:17","slug":"mh60-r-choppers-a-game-changer-in-naval-aviation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/mh60-r-choppers-a-game-changer-in-naval-aviation\/","title":{"rendered":"MH60-R choppers a game changer in naval aviation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><b>Source: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The post is based on the article<\/span><b> \u201cMH60-R choppers a game changer in naval aviation\u201d <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">published in <\/span><b>TOI <\/b>on<b> 3rd September 2022.<\/b><\/p>\n<h5><b>What is the News?<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">India is procuring 24 MH-60 Romeo(MH-60R) helicopters by 2025 as part of a Rs 15,000-crore deal with the US government.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As part of this deal, <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">the Indian Navy has received two MH-60 R multirole helicopters from the United States at Cochin International Airport.<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><b>What is MH-60R?<\/b><\/h5>\n<figure id=\"attachment_203433\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-203433\" style=\"width: 556px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-203433 \" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/mh60r-sell-sheet-1500.jpeg?resize=556%2C720&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"MH-60R\" width=\"556\" height=\"720\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/mh60r-sell-sheet-1500.jpeg?w=1500&amp;ssl=1 1500w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/mh60r-sell-sheet-1500.jpeg?resize=232%2C300&amp;ssl=1 232w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/mh60r-sell-sheet-1500.jpeg?resize=791%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 791w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/mh60r-sell-sheet-1500.jpeg?resize=768%2C994&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/mh60r-sell-sheet-1500.jpeg?resize=1187%2C1536&amp;ssl=1 1187w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 556px) 100vw, 556px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-203433\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: Lockheed Martin<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">MH-60R is an all-weather helicopter manufactured by Lockheed Martin Corporation<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">They are the US Navy&#8217;s primary anti-submarine warfare anti-surface weapon system for open ocean zones.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">They can be <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">deployed for anti-submarine warfare, anti-ship strikes, specialized maritime operations as well as search and rescue missions.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The helicopters are designed to operate from frigates, destroyers, cruisers and aircraft carriers.<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><b>What is the significance of MH-60R helicopters for India?<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">MH-60R helicopters will provide India with the capability to perform anti-surface and anti-submarine warfare missions along with the ability to perform secondary missions including vertical replenishment, search and rescue, and communications relay.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: The post is based on the article \u201cMH60-R choppers a game changer in naval aviation\u201d published in TOI on 3rd September 2022. What is the News? India is procuring 24 MH-60 Romeo(MH-60R) helicopters by 2025 as part of a Rs 15,000-crore deal with the US government.\u00a0 As part of this deal, the Indian Navy&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/mh60-r-choppers-a-game-changer-in-naval-aviation\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">MH60-R choppers a game changer in naval aviation<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,1738,9],"tags":[10496],"class_list":["post-203431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-science-and-technology-daily-factly-articles","category-public","tag-times-of-india","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203431","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=203431"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203431\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}