{"id":133746,"date":"2024-09-26T22:00:16","date_gmt":"2024-09-26T12:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/why-india-buy-31-general-atomics-mq-9b-reaper-drones\/"},"modified":"2024-09-26T22:00:16","modified_gmt":"2024-09-26T12:00:16","slug":"how-will-india-use-the-31-mq-9b-reaper-drones-that-its-buying-from-the-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=133746","title":{"rendered":"How Will India Use The 31 MQ-9B Reaper Drones That It&#8217;s Buying From The US?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The era of Great Power Competition doesn&#8217;t just apply to the United States and China; India is also competing in the             <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"33261\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/military\/\"  >military<\/a><\/span> and economic spheres against China. Against this backdrop, India is reportedly set to finalize a $3.9 billion deal with the US to acquire some 31 MQ-9 Reaper (also called the MQ-9B Predator)             <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"15058\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/drones\/\"  >drones<\/a><\/span>, 15 Sea Guardian drones for the Indian Navy, and 16 Sky Guardian drones for the Army and Air Force. While         <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink-article\" data-id=\"2028759\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/how-does-usaf-use-mq-9-reaper-drone\/\" >the US Air Force has its own missions for the Reaper drone<\/a><\/span>, India is likely to use them with an eye to China.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India is hoping to use its new drones to counter China &#8211; including in the Indian Ocean area.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[396,231,4160,553,412],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-133746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-asia","category-drones","category-india","category-military"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133746","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=133746"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133746\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":133747,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133746\/revisions\/133747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=133746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=133746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=133746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}