{"id":35227,"date":"2018-10-31T15:52:48","date_gmt":"2018-10-31T10:22:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=35227"},"modified":"2018-10-31T15:52:48","modified_gmt":"2018-10-31T10:22:48","slug":"india-u-s-in-talks-for-c-17-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/india-u-s-in-talks-for-c-17-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"India, U.S. in talks for C-17 deal:\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/todays-paper\/tp-national\/india-us-in-talks-for-c-17-deal\/article19657519.ece\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">India, U.S. in talks for C-17 deal<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Context<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">India plans to buy another Boeing C-17 Globemaster from the United states<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>What shall be the terms and conditions of the contract?<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The aircraft shall be handed over within a month of signing the contract<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The validity of the contract expires in mid-October<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The aircraft, along with associated equipment, technical support and warranty, is estimated to cost $366.2 million.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The handover will be done in the U.S. itself, and it will be flown to India by Indian pilots<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>What will be the Significance of this deal?<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Boeing C-17 aircraft has become the mainstay of India\u2019s humanitarian assistance and disaster relief efforts.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The proposed sale will improve India\u2019s capability to meet the existing and future strategic airlift requirements.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">India lies in a region prone to natural disasters and will use the additional capability for humanitarian assistance and disaster relief<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Boeing made 10 additional aircraft without any order and offered them to all existing customers, including India.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India, U.S. in talks for C-17 deal:\u00a0 Context India plans to buy another Boeing C-17 Globemaster from the United states What shall be the terms and conditions of the contract? The aircraft shall be handed over within a month of signing the contract The validity of the contract expires in mid-October The aircraft, along with&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/india-u-s-in-talks-for-c-17-deal\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">India, U.S. in talks for C-17 deal:\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-35227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-test-1","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704675827},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35227","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=35227"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35227\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}