{"id":324972,"date":"2020-07-29T03:45:49","date_gmt":"2020-07-29T03:45:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=324972"},"modified":"2020-07-29T03:47:52","modified_gmt":"2020-07-29T03:47:52","slug":"ffirst-batch-of-five-rafale-jets-to-land-in-ambala-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/ffirst-batch-of-five-rafale-jets-to-land-in-ambala-today\/","title":{"rendered":"First batch of five Rafale jets to land in Ambala today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-324973 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/rafale-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"673\" height=\"396\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/07\/rafale-1.jpg 673w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/07\/rafale-1-300x177.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 673px) 100vw, 673px\" \/>The first batch of the much-awaited five Rafale fighter jets that took off from France on July 27\u00a0will land in Ambala on Wednesday afternoon.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Air Chief Marshal RKS Bhadauria will receive the five Rafale fighter jets in Ambala.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cIndian Air Force appreciates the support provided by French Air Force for our Rafale journey back home,\u201d IAF tweeted.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The jets are being flown by Indian Air Force pilots.\u00a0They took off from the Merignac airbase in France.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cProud to see off first five Rafale to India &#8211; swift, nimble, versatile, advanced and lethal. Real beauty and beast! Flown by IAF Pilots &#8211; world\u2019s best!\u201d Indian Ambassador to France Jawed Ashraf said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">As per the IAF official, the fleet comprises three single-seater and two twin-seater aircraft.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Jawed Ashraf thanked the French Government and Dassault Aviation at the Merignac facility. He Conveyed India\u2019s appreciation for timely delivery of the Rafale.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first batch of the much-awaited five Rafale fighter jets that took off from France on July 27\u00a0will land in Ambala on Wednesday afternoon. Air Chief Marshal RKS Bhadauria will receive the five Rafale fighter jets in Ambala. \u201cIndian Air Force appreciates the support provided by French Air Force for our Rafale journey back home,\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":324973,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2110,36,2009,2014],"tags":[13230],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324972"}],"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\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=324972"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324972\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":324975,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324972\/revisions\/324975"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/324973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=324972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=324972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=324972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}