{"id":2826,"date":"2019-04-03T06:08:15","date_gmt":"2019-04-03T06:08:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/?p=2826"},"modified":"2019-04-03T06:08:15","modified_gmt":"2019-04-03T06:08:15","slug":"pakistan-scared-as-us-ready-to-give-mh-60-romeo-choppers-to-india-approves-sale-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/?p=2826","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan scared as US ready to give MH 60 Romeo choppers to India, approves sale deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>New Delhi, <\/strong>The United States has approved the sale of 24 multi-role MH-60 &#8216;Romeo&#8217; Seahawk helicopters to India at an estimated cost of $2.4 billion, the State Department has said.<\/p>\n<p>India has been in need of these formidable anti-submarine hunter helicopters for more than a decade now.<\/p>\n<p>Designed for hunting submarines as well as knocking out ships and conducting search-and-rescue operations at sea, the Lockheed Martin-built helicopters would replenish India&#8217;s ageing fleet of British-made Sea King helicopters.<\/p>\n<p>The Trump Administration on Tuesday notified the Congress that it has approved the sale of 24 MH-60R multi-mission helicopters, which will provide the Indian defence forces the capability to perform anti-surface and anti-submarine warfare missions.<\/p>\n<p>In its notification, the State Department told the Congress that this proposed sale will support the foreign policy and national security of the US by helping to strengthen the US-Indian strategic relationship.<\/p>\n<p>The sale, at an estimated cost of $2.4 billion, will improve the security of a major defensive partner which continues to be an important force for political stability, peace, and economic progress in the Indo-Pacific and South Asia region, it said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The proposed sale will provide India the capability to perform anti-surface and anti-submarine warfare missions along with the ability to perform secondary missions including vertical replenishment, search and rescue, and communications relay,&#8221; said the Congressional notification.<\/p>\n<p>India will use the enhanced capability as a deterrent to regional threats and to strengthen its homeland defense, the notification said, adding that India will have no difficulty absorbing these helicopters into its armed forces.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi, The United States has approved the sale of 24 multi-role MH-60 &#8216;Romeo&#8217; Seahawk helicopters to India at an estimated cost of $2.4 billion, the State Department has said. India has been in need of these formidable anti-submarine hunter helicopters for more than a decade now. Designed for hunting submarines as well as knocking [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2827,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2826","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-international"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2826","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2826"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2826\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2828,"href":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2826\/revisions\/2828"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}