{"id":104118,"date":"2017-08-17T22:22:46","date_gmt":"2017-08-17T16:52:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/?p=104118"},"modified":"2017-08-17T22:22:46","modified_gmt":"2017-08-17T16:52:46","slug":"6-apache-choppers-army","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/6-apache-choppers-army\/","title":{"rendered":"6 Apache choppers for Army"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0In a major decision, the defence ministry\u00a0on Thursdayapproved procurement of six Apache helicopters along with weapons systems from American giant Boeing at a cost of Rs 4,168 crore for the Army which will be its first fleet of attack choppers.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\nIt will be a follow on order to the deal the BJP Government has signed with Boeing and the US government for 22 Apache helicopters and 15 Chinook heavy-lift choppers in September 2015.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\nThe six &#8216;AH-64-E&#8217; helicopters will come along with associated equipment, spares and weapons system, defence ministry sources said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A meeting of the Defence Acquisition Council chaired by Defence Minister Arun Jaitley cleared the long-pending proposal to procure the attack helicopters for the Army which has been pressing for the choppers, the sources said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0In a major decision, the defence ministry\u00a0on Thursdayapproved procurement of six Apache helicopters along with weapons systems from American giant Boeing at a cost of Rs 4,168 crore for the Army which will be its first fleet of attack choppers. It will be a follow on order to the deal the BJP Government has signed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":104119,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,2],"tags":[52233,11817,2512,52234,8691],"class_list":["post-104118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-politicalnews","category-top-stories","tag-apache-helicopters","tag-army","tag-bjp-government","tag-defence-minister-arun-jaitley","tag-us-government"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/apachi.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104118\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/104119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}