{"id":36117,"date":"2018-11-01T13:38:59","date_gmt":"2018-11-01T08:08:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=36117"},"modified":"2018-11-01T13:38:59","modified_gmt":"2018-11-01T08:08:59","slug":"guardian-uav-deal-with-u-s-still-a-work-in-progress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/guardian-uav-deal-with-u-s-still-a-work-in-progress\/","title":{"rendered":"Guardian UAV deal with U.S. still a work in progress:"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/todays-paper\/tp-national\/guardian-uav-deal-with-us-still-a-work-in-progress\/article19291334.ece\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Guardian UAV deal with U.S. still a work in progress<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Indo-US Guardian UAV deal still not executed<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Context:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Guardian UAV deal between U.S. and India is still in progress for India is looking over the options available before taking a call.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>What is the deal about?<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sale of 22 Guardian maritime surveillance by America has come India\u2019s way.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But defence sources say that the actual deal is a long way off as the government of India is evaluating the options available.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There was much speculation that the deal, likely between $2-2.5 billion, would be announced during Prime Minister Narendra Modi\u2019s visit to Washington in June, 2017; but there was no such announcement.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Washington had offered for India\u2019s consideration the sale of Sea Guardian Unmanned Aerial Systems which would enhance India\u2019s capabilities and promote shared security interests.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Given the Sea Guardian\u2019s capabilities, such a U.S. response to the Indian Navy\u2019s request demonstrates a major change in U.S. policy as this type of aircraft capability is only exported to a very select few of America\u2019s closest defence partners. <\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This represents tangible implementation of U.S.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guardian UAV deal with U.S. still a work in progress: Indo-US Guardian UAV deal still not executed Context: The Guardian UAV deal between U.S. and India is still in progress for India is looking over the options available before taking a call. What is the deal about? Sale of 22 Guardian maritime surveillance by America&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/guardian-uav-deal-with-u-s-still-a-work-in-progress\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Guardian UAV deal with U.S. still a work in progress:<\/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-36117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-test-1","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704946738},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36117","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=36117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36117\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}