{"id":3071,"date":"2018-02-15T23:12:12","date_gmt":"2018-02-15T23:12:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/?p=3071"},"modified":"2018-02-15T23:12:12","modified_gmt":"2018-02-15T23:12:12","slug":"indian-air-force-requests-briefing-on-the-f-35a-fighter-aircraft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/2018\/02\/15\/indian-air-force-requests-briefing-on-the-f-35a-fighter-aircraft\/","title":{"rendered":"INDIAN AIR FORCE REQUESTS BRIEFING ON THE F-35A FIGHTER AIRCRAFT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2015\/09\/xlarge_F-35B.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-208\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2015\/09\/xlarge_F-35B.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"670\" height=\"447\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2015\/09\/xlarge_F-35B.jpg 670w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2015\/09\/xlarge_F-35B-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2015\/09\/xlarge_F-35B-560x374.jpg 560w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2015\/09\/xlarge_F-35B-260x173.jpg 260w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2015\/09\/xlarge_F-35B-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 670px) 100vw, 670px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sourced: Defence Blog<\/p>\n<p>By Dylan Malyasov<\/p>\n<p>The Indian Air Force (IAF) is requesting a classified briefing on the F-35A Lightning II fighter aircraft, the Business Standard reports on 15 February.<\/p>\n<p>Business Standard learns the IAF top brass is formally requesting for a classified briefing by the F-35\u2019s prime builder, Lockheed Martin, on the capabilities of the sophisticated, fifth-generation fighter developed under the US Joint Strike Fighter programme.<\/p>\n<p>The local source reported that IAF looks to procure a \u201cnext-generation fighter aircraft\u201d to replace its MiG-27 and MiG-29 combat aircraft. It is expected that the IAF plans to order 126 new fighters that incorporate \u201cconventional take-off and landing\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Read more at : Defence-blog.com\/news\/indian-air-force-requests-f-35a-fighter-aircraft.html<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sourced: Defence Blog By Dylan Malyasov The Indian Air Force (IAF) is requesting a classified briefing on the F-35A Lightning II fighter aircraft, the Business Standard reports on 15 February. Business Standard learns the IAF top brass is formally requesting for a classified briefing by the F-35\u2019s prime builder, Lockheed Martin, on the capabilities of&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/2018\/02\/15\/indian-air-force-requests-briefing-on-the-f-35a-fighter-aircraft\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">INDIAN AIR FORCE REQUESTS BRIEFING ON THE F-35A FIGHTER AIRCRAFT<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":208,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[1466,1281],"class_list":["post-3071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-defence-industry","tag-f-35a-lightning-ii","tag-indian-air-force-iaf","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3071","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3071"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3071\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3072,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3071\/revisions\/3072"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}