{"id":88132,"date":"2019-11-21T16:18:18","date_gmt":"2019-11-21T10:48:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/factly.forumias.com\/?p=11771"},"modified":"2019-11-21T16:18:18","modified_gmt":"2019-11-21T10:48:18","slug":"u-s-state-department-approves-1-billion-arms-sale-to-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/u-s-state-department-approves-1-billion-arms-sale-to-india\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. State Department approves $1 billion arms sale to India"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>News:<\/strong>United<strong> <\/strong>States<strong> <\/strong>has approved sale of 13 MK 45 naval guns to India and related equipments worth an estimated cost of $1 billion.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Facts:<\/strong><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>About MK 45 naval guns:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>The MK 45 is manufactured by BAE Systems Land and Armaments at its facilities in Louisville,Kentucky in the US.<\/li><li>It is a naval artillery gun designed for use against surface warships, anti-aircraft and shore bombardment to support amphibious operations.<\/li><li>The gun features an automatic loader with a capacity of 20 rounds that can be fired under full automatic control taking a little over a minute to exhaust those rounds at maximum fire rate.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Significance of the sale for India:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>The proposed sale will improve India&#8217;s capability to meet current and future threats from enemy weapon systems.<\/li><li>The MK-45 Gun System will provide the capability to conduct anti-surface warfare and anti-air defense missions while enhancing interoperability with U.S. and other allied forces.<\/li><li>India will also use the enhanced capability as a deterrent to regional threats and to strengthen its homeland defense.<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News:United States has approved sale of 13 MK 45 naval guns to India and related equipments worth an estimated cost of $1 billion. Facts: About MK 45 naval guns: The MK 45 is manufactured by BAE Systems Land and Armaments at its facilities in Louisville,Kentucky in the US. It is a naval artillery gun designed&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/u-s-state-department-approves-1-billion-arms-sale-to-india\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">U.S. State Department approves $1 billion arms sale to India<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[164],"tags":[42,5831,63],"class_list":["post-88132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international-relations-daily-factly-articles","tag-india","tag-mk45-naval-gun","tag-us","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704501977},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88132","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=88132"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88132\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}