{"id":330605,"date":"2021-01-28T05:27:49","date_gmt":"2021-01-28T05:27:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=330605"},"modified":"2021-01-28T05:27:49","modified_gmt":"2021-01-28T05:27:49","slug":"three-more-rafale-jets-land-in-india-after-flying-non-stop-from-france","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/three-more-rafale-jets-land-in-india-after-flying-non-stop-from-france\/","title":{"rendered":"Three more Rafale jets land in India after flying non-stop from France"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-330606 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/rafale.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"828\" height=\"431\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2021\/01\/rafale.jpg 828w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2021\/01\/rafale-300x156.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2021\/01\/rafale-768x400.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2021\/01\/rafale-696x362.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2021\/01\/rafale-807x420.jpg 807w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 828px) 100vw, 828px\" \/>The third batch of three Rafale fighter jets landed in India on Wednesday evening after it took off from France for a non-stop flight to India. The jets flew over 7000km with in-flight refuelling.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cThe third batch of three Rafale aircraft landed at an IAF base a short while ago. They flew over 7000Km with in-flight refuelling. The aircraft got airborne earlier in the day from #IstresAirBase in France. IAF deeply appreciates the tanker support provided\u00a0 by UAE Air Force,\u201d the IAF tweeted on Wednesday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">&#8220;Three more Rafale jets take off from France for a non-stop flight to India with mid-air refuelling by UAE MRTT; Adding more strength to India&#8217;s air power. Wishing our amazing pilots smooth flight&amp;safe landing with superb fighter jets,&#8221; the Indian embassy in France earlier tweeted.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The first batch of five Rafales arrived in India in July 2020 and was officially inducted in September at Ambala Air Base in Haryana.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The second batch of three Rafale jets arrived in India in November last year.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">On January 26, the newly-inducted Rafale jets took part in the Republic Day flypast for the first time.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The third batch of three Rafale fighter jets landed in India on Wednesday evening after it took off from France for a non-stop flight to India. The jets flew over 7000km with in-flight refuelling.\u00a0 \u201cThe third batch of three Rafale aircraft landed at an IAF base a short while ago. They flew over 7000Km with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":330606,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[2047,4621],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330605"}],"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=330605"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330605\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":330607,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330605\/revisions\/330607"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/330606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=330605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=330605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=330605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}