{"id":85095,"date":"2019-03-06T16:38:25","date_gmt":"2019-03-06T11:08:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/factly.forumias.com\/?p=2231"},"modified":"2019-03-06T16:38:25","modified_gmt":"2019-03-06T11:08:25","slug":"no-bank-guarantees-meant-a-more-expensive-new-rafale-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/no-bank-guarantees-meant-a-more-expensive-new-rafale-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"No bank guarantees meant a more expensive new Rafale deal"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Indian government in 2016 inked a direct deal with the French government to purchase 36 new Rafale fighter jets.The Opposition parties have alleged that the government bought 36 Rafale fighter aircraft at a much higher price than the one that was being negotiated for 126 aircraft by the previous government.<\/li><li>Rafale is a twin-engine medium multi-role combat aircraft.It is manufactured by the French company Dassault Aviation.<\/li><li>Dassault claims Rafale has &#8216;Omnirole&#8217;.This is the capability to perform several actions at the same time.It can carry out both air-to-ground as well as air-to-air attacks.It can also carry out interceptions during the same flight.<\/li><li>The aircraft is fitted with an on-board oxygen generation system (OBOGS).It suppresses the need for liquid oxygen re-filling or ground support for oxygen production.<\/li><li>It carry out a wide range of missions: (a)Air-defence\/air-superiority (b)Reconnaissance (military observation of a region to locate an enemy or ascertain strategic features) (c)close air support dynamic targeting (d)Air-to-ground precision strike (e)anti-ship attacks (f)nuclear deterrence and (g)buddy-buddy refueling.<\/li><\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Indian government in 2016 inked a direct deal with the French government to purchase 36 new Rafale fighter jets.The Opposition parties have alleged that the government bought 36 Rafale fighter aircraft at a much higher price than the one that was being negotiated for 126 aircraft by the previous government. Rafale is a twin-engine medium&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/no-bank-guarantees-meant-a-more-expensive-new-rafale-deal\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">No bank guarantees meant a more expensive new Rafale deal<\/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":[164,1738],"tags":[931,2234],"class_list":["post-85095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international-relations-daily-factly-articles","category-science-and-technology-daily-factly-articles","tag-india-france","tag-rafale","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704794036},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85095","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=85095"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85095\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}