{"id":88297,"date":"2020-04-17T01:55:59","date_gmt":"2020-04-16T20:25:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/factly.forumias.com\/?p=14852"},"modified":"2020-04-17T01:55:59","modified_gmt":"2020-04-16T20:25:59","slug":"us-approves-sale-of-military-hardware","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/us-approves-sale-of-military-hardware\/","title":{"rendered":"US Approves Sale of Military Hardware"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>News:<\/strong>The US State Department has approved the sale of missiles and torpedoes worth $155 million to India.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Harpoon Block II Missile:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>It is an anti-ship missile capable of performing both land-strike and anti-ship missions.<\/li><li>It would be integrated into the P-8I aircraft to conduct anti-surface warfare missions in defense of critical sea lanes.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>MK 54 Torpedoes:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>It will provide India the capability to conduct anti-submarine warfare missions.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Additional Facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>P-8I Aircraft: <\/strong>It is a maritime patrol aircraft used by the Navy to enhance its capabilities for maritime coastal surveillance, Anti-Submarine Warfare (ASW) and Anti-Surface Vessel (ASV) strikes.<\/li><li><strong>Torpedo: <\/strong>It is a cigar-shaped, self-propelled underwater missile launched from a submarine or warships for destroying other surface vessels and submarines.<\/li><li><strong>Submarine<\/strong>:It is a warship that can remain submerged and navigate underwater for a stipulated period of time.They are usually built for warfare and armed with torpedoes or guided missiles.<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News:The US State Department has approved the sale of missiles and torpedoes worth $155 million to India. Facts: Harpoon Block II Missile: It is an anti-ship missile capable of performing both land-strike and anti-ship missions. It would be integrated into the P-8I aircraft to conduct anti-surface warfare missions in defense of critical sea lanes. MK&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/us-approves-sale-of-military-hardware\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">US Approves Sale of Military Hardware<\/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":[42,5990,63],"class_list":["post-88297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international-relations-daily-factly-articles","tag-india","tag-missiles","tag-us","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704612749},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88297","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=88297"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88297\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}