{"id":298736,"date":"2018-06-13T11:47:49","date_gmt":"2018-06-13T06:17:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tehelka.com\/?p=298736"},"modified":"2018-06-28T15:35:15","modified_gmt":"2018-06-28T15:35:15","slug":"us-government-approves-sale-of-apache-attack-helicopters-to-india-for-930-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/us-government-approves-sale-of-apache-attack-helicopters-to-india-for-930-million\/","title":{"rendered":"US Government approves sale of Apache attack helicopters to India for $930 million"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-298738 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/apache-1-300x175.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"571\" height=\"333\" \/><br \/>\nThe US government has approved a deal to sell 6 Boeing AH-64E Apache attack helicopters for $930 million to India, US State Department confirms on June 12.<br \/>\n&#8220;This support for the AH-64E will provide an increase in India&#8217;s defensive capability to counter ground-armored threats and modernize its armed forces,&#8221; the US Defense Security Cooperation Agency said, in a statement.<br \/>\nThe statement further read, &#8220;India will have no difficulty absorbing the helicopters and support equipment into its armed forces. The proposed sale of this equipment and support will not alter the basic military balance in the region&#8221;<br \/>\nThe Apache is manufactured by Boeing (world&#8217;s leading manufacturer of commercial jetliners and defense, space and security systems) and Indian partner Tata at a plant in India.<br \/>\n<b>The deal \u00a0which is said to be $930 million includes:<\/b><br \/>\n1.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Four AN\/APG-78 Fire Control Radars<br \/>\n2.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0180 AGM-114L-3 Hellfire Longbow missiles<br \/>\n3.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0200\u00a0\u00a0Stinger Block I-92H missiles<br \/>\n4.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a090 AGM-114R-3 Hellfire II missiles<br \/>\n5.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Embedded GPS Inertial Navigation System<br \/>\n6.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a030mm cannons<br \/>\n7.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Transponders<br \/>\n8.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Simulators<br \/>\n9.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Training equipment<br \/>\n10.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Stinger air-to-air missiles<br \/>\n11.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Night vision sensors<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US government has approved a deal to sell 6 Boeing AH-64E Apache attack helicopters for $930 million to India, US State Department confirms on June 12. &#8220;This support for the AH-64E will provide an increase in India&#8217;s defensive capability to counter ground-armored threats and modernize its armed forces,&#8221; the US Defense Security Cooperation Agency [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":299333,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[167,36,53],"tags":[2470,1683,574,2471],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298736"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=298736"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298736\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":299528,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298736\/revisions\/299528"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/299333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=298736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=298736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=298736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}