{"id":42498,"date":"2019-02-27T15:16:54","date_gmt":"2019-02-27T09:46:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=42498"},"modified":"2019-02-27T15:16:54","modified_gmt":"2019-02-27T09:46:54","slug":"why-mirage-of-80s-is-iafs-weapon-of-choice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/why-mirage-of-80s-is-iafs-weapon-of-choice\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Mirage of \u201980s is IAF\u2019s \u2018weapon of choice\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/india\/why-mirage-of-80s-is-iafs-weapon-of-choice\/articleshow\/68177018.cms\">Why Mirage of \u201980s is IAF\u2019s \u2018weapon of choice\u2019<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>India with its 12 Mirage-2000 fighter jets decimated multiple terror camps across the Line of Control in Pakistan.<\/li>\n<li>The Mirage-2000 is one of the Indian Air Force\u2019s (IAF) most versatile and deadliest aircraft and it was first commissioned in 1985.Soon after inducting the Mirage, IAF gave it the name \u2013 Vajra \u2013 meaning lightning thunderbolt in Sanskrit.<\/li>\n<li>The fighters, manufactured by French planemaker Dassault Aviation, can carry a mix of bombs and missiles on its nine hard points.Apart from India, Dassault sold the Mirage 2000 to 8 other countries, including the home country of France, Egypt, UAE, Peru, Taiwan, Peru, Greece and Brazil.<\/li>\n<li>The Mirage-2000 can carry out precision strikes during day and night and had played a decisive role in the 1999 war of Kargil.<\/li>\n<li>In 2011, a contract was signed to upgrade the existing Mirage-2000 jets with (a) advanced avionics (b) new multi-mode target radars (c)reconfigure glass cockpits (d) state-of-the-art warfare systems and (e) capability to launch advanced missiles.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why Mirage of \u201980s is IAF\u2019s \u2018weapon of choice\u2019 India with its 12 Mirage-2000 fighter jets decimated multiple terror camps across the Line of Control in Pakistan. The Mirage-2000 is one of the Indian Air Force\u2019s (IAF) most versatile and deadliest aircraft and it was first commissioned in 1985.Soon after inducting the Mirage, IAF gave&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/why-mirage-of-80s-is-iafs-weapon-of-choice\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Why Mirage of \u201980s is IAF\u2019s \u2018weapon of choice\u2019<\/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-42498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-test-1","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":1700782546,"cached_date":1704644254},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42498","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=42498"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42498\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}