{"id":105333,"date":"2026-03-27T20:00:43","date_gmt":"2026-03-27T15:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=105333"},"modified":"2026-03-27T20:00:43","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T15:00:43","slug":"india-okays-25-billion-defense-projects-boost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/world\/india-okays-25-billion-defense-projects-boost\/","title":{"rendered":"India okays $25 billion defense projects boost"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/world\/wall-street-journal-criticizes-modi-govt-over-treatment-of-minorities\/\">India&#8217;s Defense Acquisition Council<\/a> has approved defense projects worth about $ 25 billion.<\/p>\n<p>According to foreign news agency Reuters, the projects that have been approved include the purchase of medium transport aircraft, Russian-made S-400 air defense systems and unmanned attack aircraft.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Indian government, the Defense Acquisition Council approved the purchase of air defense tracked systems, armor-piercing single-tank ammunition, high-capacity radio relay systems, Dhanush gun systems and runway independent aerial surveillance systems for the Indian Army.<\/p>\n<p>Proposals for the purchase of medium transport aircraft, long-range S-400 surface-to-air missile systems, unmanned attack aircraft and engine overhaul of Su-30 aircraft for the Indian Air Force were approved.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, the purchase of heavy-duty air cushion vehicles for the Indian Coast Guard has also been approved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: India&#8217;s Defense Acquisition Council has approved defense projects worth about $ 25 billion. According to foreign news agency Reuters, the projects that have been approved include the purchase of medium transport aircraft, Russian-made S-400 air defense systems and unmanned attack aircraft. According to the Indian government, the Defense Acquisition Council approved the purchase [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":105334,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,3],"tags":[1205,38741],"class_list":["post-105333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news","category-world","tag-pm-modi","tag-indias-defense-acquisition-council"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105333","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105333"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105333\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":105335,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105333\/revisions\/105335"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/105334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}