{"id":193199,"date":"2009-01-10T07:35:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-10T12:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/01\/10\/u-s-in-talks-with-india-to-sell-star-wars-systems\/"},"modified":"2009-01-10T07:35:00","modified_gmt":"2009-01-10T12:35:00","slug":"u-s-in-talks-with-india-to-sell-star-wars-systems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/01\/10\/u-s-in-talks-with-india-to-sell-star-wars-systems\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. in Talks with India to Sell Star Wars Systems"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The US and India are in talks <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ft.com\/cms\/s\/0\/1331a926-dce4-11dd-a2a9-000077b07658.html\">regarding the purchase of missile defense systems<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>From a purely technical perspective, India&#8217;s defense needs are less challenging, the speed of an incoming missile increases with the distance with which it travels and Pakistan and China both share a border.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s unclear from the article whether this is a real attempt to sell systems to India, or a PR attempt intended by missile defense advocates on both sides to boost the government support for their respective systems.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US and India are in talks regarding the purchase of missile defense systems. From a purely technical perspective, India&#8217;s defense needs are less challenging, the speed of an incoming missile increases with the distance with which it travels and Pakistan and China both share a border. It&#8217;s unclear from the article whether this is &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1008,1096,1151],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-193199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-defense-procurement","category-missile-defense","category-south-asia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193199"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193199\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}