{"id":35626,"date":"2018-11-01T11:08:36","date_gmt":"2018-11-01T05:38:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=35626"},"modified":"2018-11-01T11:08:36","modified_gmt":"2018-11-01T05:38:36","slug":"army-to-get-six-apache-helicopters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/army-to-get-six-apache-helicopters\/","title":{"rendered":"Army to get six Apache helicopters:"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/todays-paper\/tp-national\/army-to-get-6-apache-choppers\/article19513122.ece\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Army to get six Apache helicopters<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><b>Context:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Indian Army on 17<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">th<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> August, 2017 got a step closer to having its own dedicated fleet of attack helicopters, with the Defence Ministry approving the purchase of six AH-64 Apache attack helicopters from the U.S.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><b>Key facts about the purchase:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Defence Acquisition Council (DAC) cleared total capital acquisitions worth about Rs. 4,700 crore for the purchase.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The cost of Apaches, including associated equipment, spares, training, weapons and armaments, is about Rs. 4,168 crore.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> In another deal, the Defence Acquisition Council DAC gave approval for procuring two gas turbine engines from Ukraine, to be fitted on the two stealth frigates under construction in Russia.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Army to get six Apache helicopters: Context: The Indian Army on 17th August, 2017 got a step closer to having its own dedicated fleet of attack helicopters, with the Defence Ministry approving the purchase of six AH-64 Apache attack helicopters from the U.S. Key facts about the purchase: The Defence Acquisition Council (DAC) cleared total&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/army-to-get-six-apache-helicopters\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Army to get six Apache helicopters:<\/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-35626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-test-1","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704845104},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35626","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=35626"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35626\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}