{"id":89238,"date":"2019-08-31T17:22:58","date_gmt":"2019-08-31T11:52:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/factly.forumias.com\/?p=9714"},"modified":"2019-08-31T17:22:58","modified_gmt":"2019-08-31T11:52:58","slug":"apache-attack-helicopters-to-be-inducted-into-iaf-at-pathankot-on-3-september","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/apache-attack-helicopters-to-be-inducted-into-iaf-at-pathankot-on-3-september\/","title":{"rendered":"Apache attack helicopters to be inducted into IAF at Pathankot on 3 September"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Union Defence Minister and Punjab Chief Minister\nwill jointly induct four US-made Apache AH-64E (I) helicopters into the Indian\nAir Force at Pathankot on 3<sup>rd<\/sup> September.<\/li><li>The AH-64E Apache is one of the world&#8217;s most\nadvanced multi-role combat helicopters, and is flown by the US Army.<\/li><li>The IAF had signed a multi-billion dollar\ncontract with the US government and Boeing Ltd in September 2015 for 22 Apache\nhelicopters.<\/li><li>Further, the Defence Ministry in 2017 approved\nthe procurement of six Apache helicopters along with weapons systems from\nBoeing. This will be its first fleet of attack choppers.<\/li><li>The IAF currently operates Soviet-origin Mi-25\nand Mi-35 helicopter gunships.<\/li><li>The Apache choppers will be the second US-built\nhelicopters to join the air force fleet. IAF inducted Boeing CH-47F (I) Chinook\nheavy-lift helicopters in March 2019<\/li><\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Union Defence Minister and Punjab Chief Minister will jointly induct four US-made Apache AH-64E (I) helicopters into the Indian Air Force at Pathankot on 3rd September. The AH-64E Apache is one of the world&#8217;s most advanced multi-role combat helicopters, and is flown by the US Army. The IAF had signed a multi-billion dollar contract with&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/apache-attack-helicopters-to-be-inducted-into-iaf-at-pathankot-on-3-september\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Apache attack helicopters to be inducted into IAF at Pathankot on 3 September<\/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":[1760],"tags":[6668],"class_list":["post-89238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-polity-and-nation","tag-apache-attack-helicopters","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704909640},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89238","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=89238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89238\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}