{"id":3461,"date":"2018-05-02T22:23:17","date_gmt":"2018-05-02T22:23:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/?p=3461"},"modified":"2018-05-02T22:23:17","modified_gmt":"2018-05-02T22:23:17","slug":"us-government-agrees-to-supply-predator-drones-to-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/2018\/05\/02\/us-government-agrees-to-supply-predator-drones-to-india\/","title":{"rendered":"US GOVERNMENT AGREES TO SUPPLY PREDATOR DRONES TO INDIA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2017\/11\/Predator_unmanned_aircraft.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-2688\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2017\/11\/Predator_unmanned_aircraft-1024x681.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"372\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2017\/11\/Predator_unmanned_aircraft-1024x681.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2017\/11\/Predator_unmanned_aircraft-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2017\/11\/Predator_unmanned_aircraft-768x510.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2017\/11\/Predator_unmanned_aircraft-560x372.jpg 560w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2017\/11\/Predator_unmanned_aircraft-260x173.jpg 260w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2017\/11\/Predator_unmanned_aircraft-160x106.jpg 160w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2017\/11\/Predator_unmanned_aircraft.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source: Hindustan Times<\/p>\n<p>By Shishir Gupta<\/p>\n<p>In a bid to substantially enhance India\u2019s so-called stand-off weapon capabilities, the Trump administration in the United States has agreed to supply long endurance high-altitude surveillance armed unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV), which are capable of hunting and destroying targets across seas and over land borders.<\/p>\n<p>Indian and US diplomatic officials confirmed to Hindustan Times that the Pentagon\u2019s decision to supply Predator-B drones to Indian military has been conveyed through official channels and that it is now up to the Narendra Modi government to take the final call based on the overall cost of India\u2019s drone programme. The matter was taken up during official level meetings attended by National Security Advisor Ajit Doval, foreign secretary Vijay Gokhale and defence secretary in Washington last month, they added.<\/p>\n<p>Manufactured by General Atomics, Predator-B has both land and naval versions and can be armed with air-to-land missiles, anti-ship missiles and laser guided bombs.<\/p>\n<p>Stand-off capabilities refer to the ability to strike without fear of the defensive capabilities of the target.<\/p>\n<p>Image sourced: U.S. Air Force photo\/Lt Col Leslie Pratt<\/p>\n<p>Read more at : https:\/\/www.hindustantimes.com\/india-news\/trump-administration-agrees-to-supply-predator-drones-to-india\/story-03t9x05AMfohGJEbnm2olM.html<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Hindustan Times By Shishir Gupta In a bid to substantially enhance India\u2019s so-called stand-off weapon capabilities, the Trump administration in the United States has agreed to supply long endurance high-altitude surveillance armed unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV), which are capable of hunting and destroying targets across seas and over land borders. Indian and US diplomatic&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/2018\/05\/02\/us-government-agrees-to-supply-predator-drones-to-india\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">US GOVERNMENT AGREES TO SUPPLY PREDATOR DRONES TO INDIA<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2688,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[1855,243],"class_list":["post-3461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-defence-industry","tag-predator-b","tag-united-states","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3461","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=3461"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3461\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3462,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3461\/revisions\/3462"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}