{"id":27297,"date":"2018-10-23T12:59:04","date_gmt":"2018-10-23T07:29:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=27297"},"modified":"2018-10-23T12:59:04","modified_gmt":"2018-10-23T07:29:04","slug":"india-looks-to-buy-israeli-missiles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/india-looks-to-buy-israeli-missiles\/","title":{"rendered":"India looks to buy Israeli missiles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/todays-paper\/tp-national\/india-looks-to-procure-spike-missiles\/article25023825.ece\">India looks to buy Israeli missiles<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><u>News<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>A deal to procure the <strong>Spike anti-tank guided<\/strong> missiles from Israel has been brought before the <strong>Defense Acquisition Council (DAC)<\/strong> for approval.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong><u>Important Facts<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<ol start=\"2\">\n<li><strong>Spike anti-tank guided missile:<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<ul>\n<li>It is a third generation fire and forget anti-tank guided missile.<\/li>\n<li>It is developed and designed by an Israeli Company.<\/li>\n<li>It is available in man-portable, vehicle-launched, and helicopter-launched variants.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ol start=\"3\">\n<li><strong>Defense Acquisition Council<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<ul>\n<li>It was constituted for overall guidance of the defense procurement planning process.<\/li>\n<li>It is headed by the defense minister.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ol start=\"4\">\n<li>The current missile procurement from Israel will be through the government-to-government route.<\/li>\n<li>The deal includes 170 launchers, 4,500 missiles and 15 simulators.<\/li>\n<li>The earlier deal was cancelled in January and it was decided that the requirement could be met through the<strong> indigenous man-portable missile <\/strong>being developed by the <strong>Defense Research and Development Organization (DRDO).<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>However, since the Army is facing shortage of anti-tank guided missiles and DRDO missed it development deadline, the government decided to go ahead with the deal.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India looks to buy Israeli missiles News A deal to procure the Spike anti-tank guided missiles from Israel has been brought before the Defense Acquisition Council (DAC) for approval. Important Facts Spike anti-tank guided missile: It is a third generation fire and forget anti-tank guided missile. It is developed and designed by an Israeli Company.&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/india-looks-to-buy-israeli-missiles\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">India looks to buy Israeli missiles<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-test-1","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704712664},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27297","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\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27297"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27297\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}