{"id":87579,"date":"2019-04-04T16:57:26","date_gmt":"2019-04-04T11:27:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/factly.forumias.com\/?p=3352"},"modified":"2019-04-04T16:57:26","modified_gmt":"2019-04-04T11:27:26","slug":"u-s-state-department-approves-sale-of-24-mh-60r-copters-worth-2-6-bn-to-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/u-s-state-department-approves-sale-of-24-mh-60r-copters-worth-2-6-bn-to-india\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. State Department approves sale of 24 MH-60R copters worth $2.6 bn to India"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>The United States has approved the sale of 24 multi-role MH-60R Seahawk maritime helicopters to India at an estimated cost of USD 2.6 billion.<\/li><li>The Seahawks are multi-mission maritime helicopter developed by Lockheed Martin.These multi-role helicopters can perform a variety of functions including (a)anti-submarine warfare (b)anti-surface warfare, (c)surveillance (d)communications relay (e)combat search and rescue, (f)naval gunfire support and (g)logistics support.<\/li><li>Further,these helicopters are designed to operate from frigates, destroyers,cruisers and aircraft carriers.These helicopters are expected to boost the Indian Navy&#8217;s anti-surface and anti-submarine warfare operations as China expands its presence in the Indian Ocean. <\/li><li>Once inducted,the Seahawk helicopters will replace India\u2019s ageing British-made Sea King fleet that has been in service since 1971. Currently,Seahawk helicopters are deployed with the US Navy as the primary anti-submarine warfare anti-surface weapon system for open ocean and littoral zones.<\/li><li>According to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute\u2019s 2018 report,India is the second-largest importer of arms worldwide,just behind Saudi Arabia.Leading arms sellers to India include Russia,Israel and the US.<\/li><\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The United States has approved the sale of 24 multi-role MH-60R Seahawk maritime helicopters to India at an estimated cost of USD 2.6 billion. The Seahawks are multi-mission maritime helicopter developed by Lockheed Martin.These multi-role helicopters can perform a variety of functions including (a)anti-submarine warfare (b)anti-surface warfare, (c)surveillance (d)communications relay (e)combat search and rescue, (f)naval&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/u-s-state-department-approves-sale-of-24-mh-60r-copters-worth-2-6-bn-to-india\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">U.S. State Department approves sale of 24 MH-60R copters worth $2.6 bn to India<\/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":[2262,5320],"class_list":["post-87579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international-relations-daily-factly-articles","tag-india-usa","tag-seahawks-helicopters","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704725542},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87579","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=87579"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87579\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}