{"id":32306,"date":"2018-10-29T13:30:14","date_gmt":"2018-10-29T08:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=32306"},"modified":"2018-10-29T13:30:14","modified_gmt":"2018-10-29T08:00:14","slug":"india-calls-off-missile-deal-with-israel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/india-calls-off-missile-deal-with-israel\/","title":{"rendered":"India calls off missile deal with Israel\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/israels-rafael-says-india-cancels-order-for-spike-anti-tank-missile\/article22358870.ece\"><strong>India calls off missile deal with Israel<\/strong><\/a><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Context<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>India has called off an order to buy Spike anti-tank guided missiles from Israel\u2019s state-owned defence contractor Rafael<\/p>\n<p><strong>The deal had been worth about $500 million<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The deal was worth about $500 million and its termination came ahead of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu\u2019s visit to India.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Barak missiles coming though<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>India will buy 131 Barak surface-to-air missiles built by Rafael.<\/li>\n<li>The 4.6-billion-rupee ($72 million) order follows up an earlier purchase of Barak missiles, meant to protect Navy vessels against sea-skimming missiles and aerial threats.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Reason<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>India\u2019s Defence Research and Development Organisation was developing a domestic anti-tank missile the government was keen to support.<\/p>\n<p><strong>India and Israel<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Mr. Modi became the first sitting Indian Prime Minister to visit\u00a0Israel\u00a0last summer, and Mr. Netanyahu will fly to India on Jan. 14.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India calls off missile deal with Israel\u00a0 Context India has called off an order to buy Spike anti-tank guided missiles from Israel\u2019s state-owned defence contractor Rafael The deal had been worth about $500 million The deal was worth about $500 million and its termination came ahead of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu\u2019s visit to India.&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/india-calls-off-missile-deal-with-israel\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">India calls off missile deal with Israel\u00a0<\/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-32306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-test-1","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704899528},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32306","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=32306"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32306\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}