{"id":7382,"date":"2020-01-13T09:52:02","date_gmt":"2020-01-13T09:52:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/?p=7382"},"modified":"2020-01-13T17:52:38","modified_gmt":"2020-01-13T17:52:38","slug":"200-fighter-jets-for-indian-air-force","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/200-fighter-jets-for-indian-air-force\/","title":{"rendered":"200 fighter jets for Indian Air Force"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The government is in the process of acquiring around 200\naircraft to cope with the depleting aerial inventories of the Indian Air Force.\nThe contract for HAL-manufactured 83 LCA Tejas Mark 1 A advanced fighter jets\nare in the final stages. Apart from these, Expression of Interest (EOI) has\nbeen floated for another 110 aircraft, based on which Request for Proposal\n(RFP) will be floated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/current-affairs-quiz-2019-daily-gk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>Daily Current\nAffairs Quiz 2020<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Air Force has Sukhoi 30 MKIs, Mirage 2000s, Mig 29s and\nthe ageing Jaguars and Mig 21 Bisons in its inventory of fighter jets at\npresent. The last fleet of seven swing-wing MiG-27 fighters, which played an\nimportant role during the 1999 Kargil war, was decommissioned on December 27.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The government is in the process of acquiring around 200 aircraft to cope with the depleting aerial inventories of the Indian Air Force. The contract for HAL-manufactured 83 LCA Tejas Mark 1 A advanced fighter jets are in the final stages. Apart from these, Expression of Interest (EOI) has been floated for another 110 aircraft, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":7383,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[871,8],"tags":[54],"offerexpiration":[],"class_list":["post-7382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-affairs-january-2020","category-current-affairs","tag-indian-air-force"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7382","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7382"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7382\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7384,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7382\/revisions\/7384"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7382"},{"taxonomy":"offerexpiration","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/offerexpiration?post=7382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}