{"id":80778,"date":"2019-10-05T00:44:34","date_gmt":"2019-10-04T19:14:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=80778"},"modified":"2019-10-05T00:44:34","modified_gmt":"2019-10-04T19:14:34","slug":"light-field-gun-airlifted-during-joint-army-air-force-exercise-in-arunachal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2019\/10\/05\/light-field-gun-airlifted-during-joint-army-air-force-exercise-in-arunachal\/","title":{"rendered":"Light field gun airlifted during joint Army, Air Force exercise in Arunachal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>NEW DELHI, Oct 4:<\/strong> In a joint exercise by the Army and the Air Force on Thursday, a light field gun was successfully airlifted by an Mi-17 helicopter at the advanced landing ground (ALG) in Tuting in Upper Siang district, a statement said.<br \/>\nWith this, the time needed for deployment of guns at forward posts will drastically reduce in case of any operational contingency, it added.<br \/>\n&#8220;A light field gun of Indian Army was successfully airlifted by under-slung operation by IAF Mi-17 1V, in a joint exercise with the Indian Army at Tuting ALG,&#8221; the statement said.<br \/>\nThis is first time that an Mi-17 has carried out this &#8220;complicated and challenging&#8221; operation, it added.<br \/>\nLast month, the IAF had reopened the crucial Vijaynagar ALG, located in the eastern most tip of Arunachal. (PTI)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI, Oct 4: In a joint exercise by the Army and the Air Force on Thursday, a light field gun was successfully airlifted by an Mi-17 helicopter at the advanced landing ground (ALG) in Tuting in Upper Siang district, a statement said. With this, the time needed for deployment of guns at forward posts [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-80778","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-state-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80778","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80778"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80778\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}