{"id":87571,"date":"2019-04-02T16:37:20","date_gmt":"2019-04-02T11:07:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/factly.forumias.com\/?p=3242"},"modified":"2019-04-02T16:37:20","modified_gmt":"2019-04-02T11:07:20","slug":"india-pakistan-scramble-jets-after-uav-sighting-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/india-pakistan-scramble-jets-after-uav-sighting-2\/","title":{"rendered":"India, Pakistan scramble jets after UAV sighting"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>The Indian Air Force deployed two Sukhoi-30 fighters from an airbase in Punjab after a Pakistani unmanned aerial vehicle(UAV) was spotted close to the border.<\/li><li>This resulted in Pakistan also deploying two of its F-16 fighter aircrafts close to the border.However,no side violated the air space,with the fighter jets of both countries staying within their own boundaries.<\/li><li>Tensions between India and Pakistan has escalated after Indian Air Force fighter jets bombed terror group JeM&#8217;s training camp near Balakot in Pakistan on February 26.Pakistan retaliated by attempting to target Indian military installations.However,the IAF thwarted their plan.<\/li><li>The Indian strike on the JeM camp came after the terror outfit claimed responsibility for a suicide attack on a CRPF convoy in Jammu and Kashmir&#8217;s Pulwama in which 40 soldiers were killed.<\/li><li>Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) or unmanned aircraft systems (UASes) are also known as drones.The drones may be remotely controlled or fly autonomously through software-controlled flight plans in their embedded systems working in conjunction with onboard sensors and GPS.<\/li><li>The Sukhoi Su-30 is a twin-engine,two-seat supermaneuverable fighter aircraft developed by Russia\u2019s Sukhoi Aviation Corporation.It is a multirole fighter for all-weather,air-to-air and air-to-surface deep interdiction missions.<\/li><li>The General Dynamics F-16 Fighting Falcon is a single-engine supersonic multi-role fighter aircraft originally developed by General Dynamics (now Lockheed Martin) for the United States Air Force (USAF).<\/li><\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Indian Air Force deployed two Sukhoi-30 fighters from an airbase in Punjab after a Pakistani unmanned aerial vehicle(UAV) was spotted close to the border. This resulted in Pakistan also deploying two of its F-16 fighter aircrafts close to the border.However,no side violated the air space,with the fighter jets of both countries staying within their&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/india-pakistan-scramble-jets-after-uav-sighting-2\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">India, Pakistan scramble jets after UAV sighting<\/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],"tags":[5307,369,2223,5308],"class_list":["post-87571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international-relations-daily-factly-articles","tag-f-16","tag-india-pakistan","tag-sukhoi-su-30","tag-uav","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87571","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=87571"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87571\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}